hey guys here in Shinjuku today with
Shari and today we're gonna be testing
out one of these translating devices
there's nothing new about these but they
have gotten better over the years this
company Lang gogo sent this one out to
me so today I'm gonna kind of put it
through its paces this video isn't
sponsored so we're gonna do everything
we can to see where the true limits of
this device is let's get going I decided
to bring Shari in for this one because
despite being almost native English
she's actually a native speaker of
Japanese there's a lot of translation
work and everything like that so I think
it should be the perfect person to help
us test slash and break this thing so in
our test today aside from pitting it
against Google Translate which obviously
has the camera function which this
doesn't so it gives Google a bit of an
edge we're gonna test this with
everything we're gonna do rhetorical
questions colloquialisms idioms jokes
double negative let's just jump right in
it literally just translated this sound
yeah it's like the words Oh so one thing
that it does do really well is simple
basic travel phrases I'm gonna have
Sheree be the judge for all of these
excuse me can you tell me where the
nearest washroom is I've played around
with this with pretty much all the basic
sentences and have yet to be able to
trip it up so we're gonna go straight
into something more complicated but I
kind of want to break down complicated
sentences into more logical and
emotional
so logical something like losing your
luggage like I'm so sorry the airline
lost my luggage and I don't have any of
my identification with me perfect
Japanese slightly impressed there let's
try something a little more emotional
now you know I've really been having a
challenging time since coming to Japan
meeting people and I'm really glad that
you took the time to talk to me today
okay
first half is wrong that's the opposite
yeah like it's got the English perfect
it's just the Japanese translation is
all right the real challenge of this
video so far those been recording this
on Shinjuku East which is very loud so
we're gonna head over to Shinjuku West
and continue over there so I kind of
want to redo those tests with Google
Translate to see how that plays that
Sheree's got my phone the first one are
you ready I'm so sorry the airline lost
my luggage and I don't have any of my
identification with me yeah which one's
better it's the same okay it's a little
details okay
I would say translator is better than
Google this one was mine early better
yeah okay we'll keep testing we'll keep
that thing I want to see how Google
Translate handles the one this one
messed up are you ready you know I've
really been having it okay first of all
the reading is so slow consolation wise
it's the same the first half is very
difficult for the translator to
understand what it means I think there's
no clear winner just yet but I want to
try Japanese to English next okay let's
just jump right in Basavanna Pandey its
Colonel CAI's lks Tama ago died taking
Eva a home Yahoo Yahoo Yahoo Ottawa ago
no ego no semyonovna famous good natural
several companies in Japan and I'm doing
English seminars in English as a
translator
Wow whoa even with it even like you
messed up in stuff yeah I know along the
way and it still caught it
okay I think that we should do something
emotional in Japanese as well what do
you think yeah sure all right cozy with
American Idol lucky echo comedy
McConnell senator Ted so I am i awesome
Azteca Dominic Chicago stomata curry
Dakota 92 - a hosta hermanito aaron
levin dosti study study tanto como te
aho aho Matua mozzarella Maire staccato
sciatica Nima ego Manabu motivational
Theo catalyst when I went to the US for
the first time I had a hard time not
speaking English very well but I wanted
to make a friend by all means and I
studied English with my host family
everyday and at first I had a very hard
time when two of my friends increased
but in the end I had a motivation to
learn English I'm glad I became that
it's so good it like it just really well
until the end completely fell apart I
want to test this against Google
Translate and see how Google Translate
okay more than anything I'm actually
just impressed that I was able to handle
the length like the entire time I was
like all it's gonna cut her off oh it's
gonna cut her off and it didn't know it
actually that was that was a long
sentence remind you again this
translator can't do stuff like this
obviously Google Translate will have the
advantage in translating something like
this which oddly enough says like men's
makeup room instead of men's restroom
but
yeah I think it's really weird that
they've written it like that though yeah
I did and his makeup room alright we're
now gonna do the exact same the long one
with Google Translate this actually
keeps a record of everything that we've
said so you can probably just read it
right up here alright welcome back let's
give it a check when I first went to the
United States I had a hard time speaking
English very well but my friends really
wanted to make it
and everyday I studied English with my
host family every day it was painful but
it was good to be motivated to learn
English at the end ok it got the ending
much better than this one day right I
just skipped that entire middle section
ok and kind of they're like pretty much
neck and neck right now like they're
fairly equal yeah google also has the
funky camera op right and it's free this
one is free for the first year then it
has an offline mode I haven't had any
trouble with it yet this also has
built-in Wi-Fi though you can like
purchase Wi-Fi for like a day or week or
something like that and that's kind of a
function that I like if you just need
Wi-Fi for the day right there it is but
I also don't feel like we've given this
a proper test yet like we haven't done
idioms we having them colloquialisms
jokes waving and swear words
any of it I do feel like this thing has
one major advantage over Google
Translate and that it's easy to use
which means it's more likely to be used
than Google Translate you basically just
push the button and speaking either
language it picks up a language you're
speaking in Translate you don't have to
like unlock it and go into the app or
any events I just feel like it would be
more likely to be used to have alone
this through a friend or family member
visiting me from overseas that way they
don't have to work like my parents had
Google Translate and they still didn't
use it at cafes and stop by yeah they
had the Wi-Fi they had the Google
Translate they just didn't use it I feel
like if they had this it kind of feels
like a toy so you kind of want to use it
here and you'll be more likely to try
and communicate maybe colloquialisms I
kinda wanna go nuts and get out of here
like that would you just buzz off
so he went straight like like buzz like
a bee I'm actually not surprised that it
didn't get it I actually have higher
hopes for idioms yeah idioms are set
phrases so you would think it would be
in there ah true that's true so if you
have a specific one that you want to try
yeah which one raining cats and dogs
okay yeah cuz we don't have something
like that in Japanese fair enough
raining cats and dogs see I told you I
had high hopes for weeks and weeks on
end now it has been raining cats and
dogs cats and dogs are raining back so
that one that one didn't work at all how
about ah well that was a piece of cake
I guess I celebrated too early you know
just for good measure what if I just
went piece of cake so if I just go piece
of cake
it works so I don't put it in a sentence
just arriving at Yoyogi Park it didn't
need a translator for there's a lot of
stuff you can't do in Yoyogi Park like
soccer and tennis no skateboarding yet
weirdly enough you can play instruments
did I Ione yeah-huh not allowed but do
with care I'm pretty sure I've seen
people do everything in the bottom half
of his in the park though and despite
his saying no cycling there's a cycling
course so I'm assuming it probably means
no cycling in the park yeah though we've
I guess in the hopes of seeing if we
can't like test it out on real people
and get their thoughts let's see what
they think they prefer a non-japanese
speaker to just communicate with them or
you know they want to use one of these
devices
what part of Japan are you from are you
from Tokyo you know we haven't done what
double- yeah how about something like I
don't dislike the movie that's actually
really good
okay to me there is Tiger ammonia
I take pictures as a hobby and give them
just a gram that's pretty close
it's not bad good let's go to Yasu
Google day I didn't expect to find out
that they were actually using these type
of devices that people's work yeah I
know like that I've never seen it yet
that must be a very new pre-olympic
thing that they're doing Sherri's from
the countryside and she speaks something
called eel Ben it's like a dialect from
koku if you were to say like I'm going
to work in a really normal way you'd say
see what only think he must I'm going to
work oh look at that smart
all right now how would you say that in
eel Ben see both like Nick will like
that's what I'm talking about let's try
it one more see what like Nikolai I'm
going to work oh oh I feel like I got
defeated all right I want to try the
offline mode and see if that changes it
at all okay see both like they pull why
I'm afraid to go
I'm gonna try it in offline mode one
more time to see if it catches it all
right you go thick or white I'm going to
work oh I got a part-time okay so I
guess sometimes you just have to try
more than one right
we are losing light quickly it's about
4:30 p.m. right now we've been at this
all day the thing that I think I'm most
impressed about so far is it the battery
is that the battery on this thing is
still at 80% that's not bad
so what did you think about it sherry
well to be honest I liked what you said
earlier like it's very simple and easy
and anybody can use
I mean it's effortless you know yeah
yeah it really is
I'm gonna leave the decision and final
opinion up to you guys though so anyway
guys thank you so much for joining let
me know what you thought about this down
in the comments I will link it in the
description for those of you interested
and I will see you guys again real soon