Can you imagine trying to take the metro in Beijing with all the signs in Chinese? The new App launched by google could be really helpful when you visit countries where you do not know the language.
Are you interested? Watch this video by The Guardian trying the application in Times Square.
As you can see it does not work for Chinese jet ;)
Work in class:
What situations do you think translators can be useful?
What problems can you have using translators?
What other tools can we use if we speak the language?
Have you tried wordreference or linguee?
