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Google Translate seeks help with Vietnamese

Google launched its Google Translate Community and hosted its first ‘Love Your Language' translate-a-thon in Ho Chi Minh City March 19 in an effort to improve the Vietnamese language on the web and make useful information more accessible to users of Vietnamese.
Google launched its Google TranslateCommunity and hosted its first ‘Love Your Language' translate-a-thon inHo Chi Minh City March 19 in an effort to improve the Vietnameselanguage on the web and make useful information more accessible to usersof Vietnamese.

Google Translate Community is a newfeature in the Google Translate tool that enables users to contributeto improving translations.

Users can access it at ww.translate.google.com.vn/community.

This feature is available for everybody in more than 90 languages and provides two options for users -- translate and validate.

Withthe translate option, users are given a random word or term and askedto provide a translation. For validate, the tool provides a word or termwith multiple translations and users just need to choose the rightanswers.

"Vietnamese is a beautiful but complicated language, andwe're working hard to make more of our products available in Vietnameselanguage and to reduce the language barrier that Vietnamese speakersface on the web," Sophie Tran, head of marketing, Vietnam, Google AsiaPacific, explained.

Google will hold several "Love yourLanguage" translate-a-thon sessions at various universities in HCM Cityand Hanoi from March 19 to 21.-VNA
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