Hi this is Russell stoner from teacher training videos calm today we're gonna look at google
translate I'm gonna show you some of the features in google translate for example how you can save
sentences I'm also going to suggest a few ways that you can use Google Translate I use it a
lot in my own language learning I'm currently studying Polish it's been really helpful for me
and I'm going to show you some examples of wire of course you could be teaching other languages
it's going to work the same way there's gonna be a short video but it's going to give you
some ideas and really what I'm suggesting is that you show this tool to your students and show them
different ways that they can use it and it can help them to build their language build their
confidence they can hear the pronunciation of words they can practice sentences and I believe
particularly at lower levels it's a really really useful tool okay now there's a couple of ways of
finding Google Translate you can just search for Google Translate when you do a search it's going
to open here at the top of the screen but the best thing now is to click on open in Google
Translate because this is just basically showing you a search returned so if you click here it's
going to bring you to Google Translate and in a minute we'll start to show you some of
the things it can do and if we come over here also and click on our apps if as long as we're
logged in you need to be logged into Google for you to be able to access it this way but if you
have logged into your apps and you can click on Google Translate now is a really good idea to have
a Gmail account and log into your Gmail account to use Google Translate because the features that are
available when you work with Google Translate are really only available if you're logged in
so remember to have a Gmail account is free and if you've got a Gmail account you've got Google
Translate and then you could be able to do all the things that I'm just about to show you now
so let's start now how good Google Translate will be dependable depend a lot on the language that
you're working from I've set my language here as English and I've set my language that I want
to work on as polish you can just click here to change the language so I'm trying to learn about
shopping at the moment and this was a kind of tricky word this morning which I came across in
my lesson strawberry which is toast Africa now I can actually click here and listen to that
so I can just write the word here click here Lucia Kafka and if I wanted to check another
words let's say for example I'm learning fruits in in in Polish and again I can write the word in
English and then I can click here Gruszka and here the word pronounced in Polish so very useful for
kind of simple one-word translations ok sometimes it will give you alternatives to that particular
word as well if you look down here for example you'll get some additional information and also
you get some information about the frequency I'm getting that's the frequency on Google so very
simple for are very useful for basic pronunciation of words but what I'd really like to do is well
there's a couple of things first of all to save any new words that I learned so for example if
I've got a word like pair that I've just learned today what I'm going to do is I'm going to click
on here and that word is now gonna be added to my favourites list and if I wanted to do the
same with the word strawberry I can do that as well by simply again just writing a word again
cuz I didn't save it before and then just click in and so we're trying to right here in front
of my microphone the words going to come up and again I click here and that adds that words to
my favourites list now one of the things that's probably quite important in whatever language
you're teaching but it is particularly important in Polish because the fact that there are various
cases depends with the object if the noun is an object of the verb preposition etc so for
example I like to actually write sentences and see how the word works in the sentence so if I
write for example I have strawberries then I'm gonna get slightly different so I'm going to get
okay so here we've got Mam truskawki so this is obviously the plural of the word and if I was to
write I have a strawberry again I'm gonna get a different slightly different word obviously
because it's in singular but also because in Polish there'll be a small grammar grammatical
change because of the case of this word so what I'm saying is it's great for kind of practicing
sentences and looking at how the word falls within a sentence and what I really like about that is
then is to listen to it Mam truskawke and then again I can save that now one thing that I do
a lot these days is I save the individual word and then I save the word with a sentence so I
might learn the word pair and then you learn the word pair in a sentence learn the word strawberry
and then learn the word strawberry in a sentence so that I'm actually hearing the word in context
now keep saving all these words well why is that useful well because if I click here and as long
as I'm logged into Google then I can click and see all the words that I've currently saved and it's
quite a few words because I've been doing a lot of work with shopping recently I've got a total
of 23 phrases and I can go through those phrases we can just see that one here that I've saved I
have a strawberry Mam truskawki I can even listen to it again here okay and then I've got the word
on its own remember I saved strawberry on its own okay and then we had the word Pear as well okay
now one of the other things as well as as soon as I'm happy with a particular word and I think yeah
I really understand the word I can just delete it here on the right hand side so saving words
means that I've got them all immediately ready so when I'm doing a lesson I actually have my
Google Translate open and as words come up I will write it in and save them immediately so that I
basically got a list of all the vocab readers coming up within a lesson and that can be a
really useful way of working with Google Translate so one obvious activity you can do which one that
I do for myself a lot is that I kind of explore the language through using my first language so
if for example I've got a word like pair or today we were looking at the words for example florists
okay so again I've only first of all look the word app florist okay again I can hit click here
yeah just yeah Kwiaciarz and then if I want to then say for example right I'm gonna see what it
would be like just say the word for example I buy flowers in the florists okay and then again sorry
I could then again so again I can click here and listen Kupuje kwiaty w kwiaciarni okay so
again I'm learning the language in in in in in a sentence I'm obviously practicing the verb in the
present simple I'm practicing the word flowers and I'm also practicing the word in the florist
so which is slightly different from just the word florist on its own because of the preposition so
this is really useful for me because it allows me to experiment and to learn sentences in context
now one of the other things that we can do is that afterwards we can then practice our sentences and
one way we can do that is in pairs so for example if I gave my list of words to a student they could
test me on the words that I am learning and I can do the same for them there's two ways
that we could do this one could be simply to show the computer screen to the other person so that
way that they can simply look at your words and test you with your vocabulary and see if you can
remember sentences so for example someone might say to me right I have a strawberry how did you
say that in Polish which is something I do with my partner because she's also a Polish speaker
so it's great for practice like that but also if you want to the other option is if you click here
on export to Google sheets you can simply put the in the the words into a Google sheet okay and I'm
just going to quickly do that and now I've got the English and the Polish now one thing if you
do that sometimes what you need to do is just hopefully I can do this just make that wider
okay so that you've got the whole you can see the whole sentence in English and the whole sentence
in Polish see and I've got all of the vocabulary that I'm currently working on and that's why I
like Google Translate because I can use it for trying to practice the language in context so
that that way I'm practicing the verbs I've been recently learning and for example the objects and
places where I can go shopping really useful tool very simple to use and now this will be a
bit controversial I realized at very high levels it may not be as good and I realized that the
accuracy is not always as good if it's a English to Chinese or something like that but I will leave
a link to an article about the accuracy and I have to say so far when it's been my level of
Polish which is really just a kind of very much an elementary pre intermediate level this tool
is really useful so remember once you've got your list and of course as I said make this a
bit wider so that you can clearly read all the words nice and clearly okay in the two columns
that's English to polish if you click up here to file and you just simply want to click on download
as and you can download that as a PDF file or as a Microsoft Excel document and that way then you
can print it out and save it for yourself you can even print it from here actually you can
just click on file and go to print as well that's also possible so a really useful way of getting a
list of all the words that you've recently been studying and that's why I'd really encourage you
to show this technology to your students I hope you find that useful I realize is gonna be a
little bit controversial because a lot of people still are adverse to translating I'm definitely
not anymore I used to be but now I use it a lot in my own language learning please comment on
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