How did we translate text from one language to another without the use of dictionaries and the technology we have today?

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Before we had google translate and all of this stuff to do it for us, how did we originally translate one language to another? I mean, before we had “english to french” dictionaries and all of that.

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The same way we do it now. A person who understands both languages translates them. Computer traslators kinda work, but they are still pretty bad. All professional translation is still done by a person, like it always has been. Computer translation is getting better, but isn’t there yet.

And dictionaries aren’t enough to translate by themselves.

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