Are you going on vacation and want to brush up on a few local phrases? Do you feel guilty about letting your high school French slip away and want to pick up your practice? Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to learn a new language and you feel like throwing yourself into Japanese? If so, then Translated is the Alexa Skill for you.
This handy Skill is free to enable and allows you to translate words and brief sentences from English into your target language (the app currently offers translation services from English to Arabic, Basque, Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh). What makes this Skill stand out in particular is that your chosen words and phrases are not read out in the false, robotic Alexa voice, instead they are spoken by a native speaker, allowing you to hear and copy the correct pronunciation every time. While the app is no substitution for language lessons or immersion, it can be a helpful way to take those first steps towards learning a new language, and can also be a useful Skill if you need a quick word or phrase translated on the go. Perfect for traveling!