Eli5: How did people first translate languages if no one knew both of the languages being translated?

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Eli5: How did people first translate languages if no one knew both of the languages being translated?

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Why do you assume they wouldn’t know both languages? If someone has parents that speak two different languages they can grow up bilingual. No reason that couldn’t happen thousands of years ago.

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