Rita Oates

Gmail adds email translation features: Is this helpful? (Download Squad)

May 24th 2009 9:18PM Lots of school districts use ePals SchoolMail for exactly the reason you give. Teachers can write to parents in English and use the automatic language translation (available since 2000 in ePals!) to translate to the language of the parent. OR the teacher can send the email in English, let the parent try to read it, then translate it to their native language. The parent can reply in their own language and the teacher can translate it.

Students who are doing collaborative projects where they are collecting data, sharing information, etc. may want to send their answer in their native language but work across multiple countries and languages. That's where the power of and need for embedded translation in email becomes quite evident.