Fascinating idea I plan to try. I am bilingual but not completely fluent. Could it be a step towards passive language training, improvement? Could it ultimately prod you into using multiple languages for practice? I have a Google Home in my Smart Home and plan to give this a try. Another element of the smart home. Will it be able to parse your second language as you speak it, adequately? Note the complexity of multiple forms of many languages.
Choose from a good selection of common US languages: English (U.S., United Kingdom., Canada, Australia, India, Singapore), French (France or Canada), German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish (Spain or Mexico). Nice idea for Google to leverage its language capabilities. Will be back with impressions. Article below is nicely detailed.
How to Make Your Google Home Bilingual in DigitalTrends
According to the Linguistic Society of America, there are around 7,000 spoken languages in the world today. In the United States alone, residents speak around 350 different languages, according to Census data, and about one in five residents speak a language other than English at home.
Some countries even have more than one national language, and many of the residents in those nations speak both official languages. It may surprise you to learn that more than half of the world’s population speaks at least two languages. As of July 2016, it’s actually more common to be bilingual in the world than it is to be an internet user.
Do you speak more than one language? Whether you’re bilingual or multilingual, you’re learning a new language, or the members of your household speak a different language than you do, it helps when your technology can do the same. Business and communication is now on a global scale, and the world is much smaller than it once was. ... "
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