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ये translation नहीं आसान…

  ये translation नहीं आसान… Recently I got a chance to translate two speeches for the Government Authorities for a function. One of the speeches I got was in Hindi and another was in Gujarati. The Speeches had to be translated into all three languages. I don't know who wrote the original and in which language, but I had to translate it into English. The time given was only a few hours. The first speech I received was in Gujarati which was handwritten and it was challenging to read what was written. Later on, I got the speech typed in Hindi in form of a Word file. Due to lack of time, I started using machine translation for the speech. There were many tools for machine translation but proceeded with Google Translation. Machine Translations are hilarious because the translation is done literally and it distorts the essence of the context. Translation of Hindi into English still was better, but Gujarati into English was a mess. I had to give extra effort to change the words, and sente