Brittany Luce

Nicole's experience with Ingwer, it makes me think about like a phrase that I know in Spanish now, specifically because I learned it through a meme.

And it's this girl going, ya basta, los estupideces.

Basically like enough already with the stupidity.

And now I know whenever I hear that, I'm never going to forget it because whenever I hear that word or that phrase, my mind, in my mind's eye, I see this girl crying in the meme being like, enough, enough already.

And I'm like, sis, I get it.

Yes.

Because if you use an app,

To translate a word or phrase, like you might understand what's being said, but you're not going to get the context.

You're not going to get the emotions at the heart of it all.

And it might not stick around in that deep, lasting way.

Exactly.

Viorica was also skeptical of relying on AI power translation, especially for important stuff.

I mean, I feel like you're also missing out on a lot of cultural aspects of language with translation too.

Like one of the most interesting things

that I've learned with Spanish.

I watch a lot of Mexican TV shows.

I watch a lot of Spanish movies.

I hear a lot of Puerto Rican Spanish.

There are all these different types of slang or even sentence structure that differ from context to context or country to country.

And when you hear the way people speak, it gives you such a clear idea of where they're from and what they mean.