Brittany Luce

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.

And you can't get that from a translation app.

No.

So many phrases...

at face value mean one thing, but really mean something else culturally.

Like when you go to a Chinese person's house, they might say when you walk in the door, which means, have you eaten?

But really, that's just saying hi.

Like they might not say, hey, how are you?

They'll say, have you eaten?

You learn that from being in the culture.

You don't necessarily learn that from technology.

This is not to say I'm totally anti-tech, though, when it comes to languages or language learning.