Hmmmm, I guess this thread is about people that write REALLY shitty, tier 3 looking shiz, but for me - I never used translators much because I try to immerse myself in the language as much as possible. For learning. So I'd listen/read/watch even if I don't understand, try to read labels on rl products without a dictionary (this one is more for portugese/spanish, now sinhala but I have problems with asian alphabets, ugh), try to write the best to my ability, I'd change language on my phone/computer/websites to the one I want to learn and bang this into my head till I actually learn (anyone remembers Wifislax? That was in spanish. I'm so fuckin proud of myself now, I know how downloads folder is in spanish *clap* *clap* *clap*). For me it was how I learned English, to the extent that sometimes I can't translate between english and my native language, because if I only learned something from english books or websites and never read/heard it in my native tongue (polish) how the hell am I supposed to know how to say it in polish??? XD But yeah, if I *see* that I start to write some word wrong I'll check on google if it's right. Google translate - not so much, it's absolutely tragic for polish-english combo, these translations are VERY wrong, heheh. It's actually ok for polish-german, had native speakers and polish people living in Germany for years check it out, and what it spits out is quite ok. I completely turned off google translate in chrome for above reasons - I won't learn if it's already translated. Idk maybe I should try something like grammarly for long posts like these? Not sure what to use. I know I have some small grammatical and stylistic errors, maybe something for that would be nice. Also would like to fix my accent. Interestingly enough, my sister uses translator sometimes, but not to the extreme and she learns so idk, it depends on your learning style, I guess?
