The machines will grow exponentially more accurate and be able to parse the smallest detail. With the exponential growth in data, that number of translations will soon be made in an afternoon, then in an hour. Today’s translation tools were developed by computing more than a billion translations a day for over 200 million people. A decade from now, I would predict, everyone reading this article will be able to converse in dozens of foreign languages, eliminating the very concept of a language barrier. Machine translation is leaps and bounds faster and more effective than my old dictionary method, but it still falls short in accuracy, functionality and delivery. Today I take out my phone and type the phrase into Google Translate, which returns a translation as fast as my Internet connection can provide it, in any of 90 languages. If I wanted to construct a sentence, I would thumb through the dictionary for five minutes to develop a clunky expression with unconjugated verbs and my best approximation of the correct noun. It used to be the case when I traveled abroad that I would take a little pocket dictionary that provided translations for commonly used phrases and words. The article heralds a new age of computer assisted language interpretation that will make people “virtually” fluent in dozens of language within the next decade. The Wall Street Journal published an article recently that created a bit of a stir on the social networks of language schools and interpreters.

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