All ways to use Google Translate

Today there are fancy super translators that are as good as it, but for the average person, Google Translate is still the best ally. That's why we're going to show you the best tricks to get the most out of Google Translate.

That's why we'll show you the best tricks to fully master Google Translate.

How to Use Google Translate Offline

Many people don't know this, but even if they are traveling abroad and don't have data, they can still use google translate offline. You simply download the language pack of your choice, and even if you don't have internet, you can use it to find out what's going on around you and chat with people nearby. Here's the best way to do it:

• Go to settings, in the upper right corner, where you will find the user's profile photo.
• Go to the "Downloaded languages" section.
• There you will see all the language packs available for download in Google Translate.
• Select the one or ones that interest you and click on the "Download" button. It will soon be ready for offline use.

As you'll see, each language pack is no larger than 50 or 60 MB in size, so it won't take up prohibitive amounts of space on your mobile phone. Is it better to use on PC? browser.

Translate selected text from an image using Google Translate

While this may seem futuristic, it is one of the features that has been around the longest. We just need to select a photo with the text we want to translate, or take it with our mobile phone. In this way, it will appear on our mobile phone with completely translated text, which seems almost impossible, but works perfectly. This is also very useful when we are abroad. As always, Google Translate's goal is to make our lives easier and break down language barriers.

The process of translating images is also very simple.

• Select a camera in the mobile application.
• Select your input and greeting language.
• Hover over what you want to translate.
• Click on the "Translate" button.
• That's it, you're done.

How to Translate a Website Using Google Translate

This may be one of the oldest tricks. With Google Translate we can translate entire web pages. It's very easy to use, you just need to enter the original language of the web page (or Google will automatically detect it) and then the language you want to translate it into. After this, a link will be created through which the page will be fully translated. Absolutely a win-win option.

Use Google Translate as a dictionary

You may already know this, but in addition to being a very reliable translator, Google Translate also allows us to do something great: have a dictionary at our fingertips that offers us all sorts of definitions. Moreover, it is not limited to only this, it also allows us to have different synonyms or related words so that we do not have problems in finding alternatives to a word that we use too often.

Very useful because:

• This allows us to use Google Translate more openly, learning new words and their meanings.
• It enhances our cultural background.
• It offers synonyms and other features.

How to activate Google Translate conversation mode

If we're abroad, it's incredibly useful to be able to communicate with people who don't speak our language. In this way we can use Spanish and the application translates it into the one we ask about and vice versa, thus maintaining a much smoother conversation than if we had not used this system. The button is very visible inside the mobile application, it is located at the bottom and it says “Chat”. If you have never done this before, you will be asked for permission to use the microphone.

How to translate all content on the screen

This is the most useful feature that you will find in Google Translate as it accompanies us and makes our life easier in a way that other applications cannot do. Basically it will allow us to translate everything we see on the screen.

To activate it, go to the settings of the Google Translate mobile application and open the "Tap to translate" section. There, activate two options: floating ball and "Tap to translate". After this, a "little ball" will appear on the screen and everything you touch will be translated.

This is very useful anytime:

• We use it when we communicate through WhatsApp with users who do not speak our language.
• We constantly use web pages or applications in foreign languages.
• We need to access services that are not available in our native language.

Save your favorite translations

There are some incredibly repetitive phrases that we often have to resort to because we can't remember exactly what we're talking about, or because we use them to communicate with people around us who don't speak our language.

It's very easy to use. Just click on the "star" that appears next to the translation you made, and it will be automatically saved in your Google account so you can refer to it at any time.

This is useful if:

• We travel to another country and always use the same phrases to communicate.
• We want to save time on a phrase that we cannot remember during the learning process.
• Allows you to save your favorite phrases for a specific occasion.