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Diary - google home - Please correct my grammer and unnatural words and phrases.

I got myself a google home yesterday. I've been using it for my English learning and, though it's been only two days, found it really useful. Talking to "her" in English itself could be a good practice for me. She can also translate English words for me. When I say "Okay google, what's XXX(English word) in Japanese?", she replies with correct answer. It works really well. What I want to do and haven't been able to do is to translate a Japanese word into English. When I say "Okay google, what's XXX(Japanes word) in English?", she fails to recognize this XXX as a Japanese word, and replies with a wrong answer. What would be the good command to make it possible?

Thank you for your help in advance.

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Diary - google home -

Please correct my grammer and unnatural words and phrases.

I got a google home yesterday. I've been using it for learning English, and though its been only two days, found it really useful. Talking to "her" in English has been good practice for me. She can also translate English words for me. When I say "Okay google, what's XXX(English word) in Japanese?", she replies with the correct answer. It works really well. What I want to do and haven't been able to do is to translate a Japanese word into English. When I say "Okay google, what's XXX(Japanese word) in English?", she fails to recognize this XXX as a Japanese word, and replies with a wrong answer. What would be the manner to make this possible?

Thank you for your help in advance.

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Hi Stan, thank you for your answer, whitch is exactly what I wanted to know. Very helpful :)
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You asked a question. I think that you have to reset the base language for the software to Japanese for Google Home to understand your question in Japanese. It is not very practical to flip your settings back and forth between Japanese and English. I read that Google plans to make Google Home multilingual (30 or so languages) by the end of the year. So you probably have to wait at least a year before Google Home will do what you want.

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