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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As has already been said, people who where multilingual, but the interesting part comes when there is a word in one language that has no linear translation to another language.

There is either no word that it can directly translate to or the word has multiple meanings.

In cases like this, it’s usually down to more than one person to interpret what the word might mean.

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