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Popular Language Pairs

Click below to view detailed guides on translating between popular language pairs:

How to Choose Your Language Pair

Every language pair behaves differently. Pairs between closely related languages — English and French, or English and German — tend to produce reliable machine translation because the two languages share vocabulary roots and similar sentence structures. Pairs that cross language families, such as English to Tamil, Japanese, or Arabic, require the system to restructure sentences completely, which is where most errors appear.

Three factors matter most when reviewing any translation:

• Word order. English places the verb in the middle of a sentence. Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Japanese, and Korean all place it at the end. Long English sentences translate more accurately when you split them into shorter ones first.
• Formality. Many languages encode respect directly into pronouns and verb endings. Hindi, Japanese, Korean, German, French, and Spanish all distinguish formal from informal address, and automatic translation usually picks the formal register by default.
• Script and direction. Arabic reads right to left, Chinese uses two different character sets depending on the region, and several Indian languages use scripts where characters combine into single units. Each of our guides explains what to expect.

Our individual language guides above cover these differences in detail for each pair, with common phrases in the native script and the specific pitfalls to watch for.

Complete List of Supported Languages

The translator supports every language listed below. Use the search box inside the language selector on the home page to find one quickly. Translation quality varies: widely spoken languages with large amounts of training data generally produce better results than less widely documented ones.