Imagine you have a friend who speaks only Spanish, and you speak only English. You both want to have a conversation, but you don’t understand each other’s languages. So, you ask another friend, who knows both languages, to help translate for you.
Machine translation works similarly, but instead of a human friend, it’s a computer program doing the translating. You type in a sentence in one language, and the program changes it into another language so that someone else can understand it.
Think of machine translation like having a super-smart, bilingual friend inside your computer or phone that helps you communicate with people from different parts of the world.
To make this work, the computer program uses a lot of examples of sentences and their translations. It learns from these examples how to turn words and sentences from one language into another correctly.
So, in simple terms, machine translation is all about using computer programs to translate text from one language to another, making it easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.
