Why is it different?
Ok. So, I tried to translate the song Shampoo by After School. I tried Google Translate and translated the Hangul, then I searched for the English lyrics. They were a lot different from each other. Why?
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Generally Google Translate is not a very reliable translating tool. It can help you understand the general meaning of foreign texts, but it will lose the sentences' structural translation, leaving you with an incorrect translation. Google Translate usually goes for the most "straight forward" translation, usually not taking in to consideration things like phrases and expressions that are specific for the language you're trying to translate.
It's especially difficult for Google Translate to succeed with converting texts from very different languages, such as Korean and English.
To get the most correct translation from Google Translate, you can try to seperate the sentences, making them shorter and thus easier to translate. ^_^
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Why is it different?
Ok. So, I tried to translate the song "Shampoo" by "After School". I tried Google Translate and translated the Hangul, then I searched before searching for it with for the English lyrics. They were a lot so different from each other. Why?
It depends on the skills of the different translators. Even with the same translator, the translation can be different depending on his mood etc.
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