Google Translate 

is a free
multilingual 
neural machine translation service
developed by Google, to translate
text and websites from one language
into another. 

As of December 2020, Google

Translate supports 109
languages at various levels
How does GT’s algorithm Work?

• The neural model of machine translation relies

on standard translation methods. Before the
advent of neural networks, translation was
usually done in a word-for-word fashion.
Due to the semantic and
grammatical features of languages,
proper translation requires
completely different software
algorithms which are implemented
as separate modules and
dictionaries in some programs.
The translation method implemented by
Google developers is called zero-shot
translation. It is a more sophisticated
technology that relies on an intermediate
artificial language. 
THE PROS
Google Translate is free.
Google Translate is quick.
Google Translate uses a statistical method to form an online
translation database based on language pair frequency. 

• THE CONS
• With Google Translate the meaning can be “lost in translation” because
there is no way to incorporate context. 
• The quality of translation is dependent on the language pair. 
• Google Translate often produces translations that contain significant
grammatical errors.
• Google Translate often produces translations that contain significant
grammatical errors.