About a year after living in Germany, I finally discovered that you can have Google translate German websites into English. Before this I was forced to sit next to my computer with a dictionary making very slow progress deciphering German sites.
This revelation has made my life so much easier. I always had used Google translate when writing emails or planning out my phone conversation to doctors, plumbers, heating specialists, dentists, or hairdressers, but it took me a year to figure out I could set up a toolbar to have sites always translated. I'm obviously not that bright or computer savvy.
Although the translations are far from perfect, they enable me to get the general gist of an email or website which is better than I am able to do on my own.
It is also a great source of entertainment to see how Google translates some things into English. Our weather forecast for today is:
In Bonn the morning rain falls and the temperatures are 5-7 ° C. In the further course of the day it is open for lunch and dinner covered at temperatures 7-11 ° C. Towards the later the sky is overcast, the sun is not visible. At night, parts of the sky covered with clouds with lows of 5 ° C.
Of course, knowing the translation from German to English is so off makes me realize what an idiot I must sound like in my emails to our landlord or neighbors when I do the translations in the reverse - English to German.
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