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Wow, that is amazing. The picture dictionary is incredibly useful when learning a language and it's the first time I see it, in a general-purpose tool too!

When learning a language I have to keep a dictionary, Google Translate, and Google Images open at the same time, and it's frustrating to find that neither language tool includes direct access to the other 2.

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As of translate... You may find out that https://deepl.com is useful. When translating to Latvian (2M+ perhaps talk this language), it gives better results than Google Translate.

I've been using deepl myself, but it's not always great for translating text to another language.

At some point I translated an English email to French and the Deepl translation translated "regards" to the French equivalent of something close to "I hope you appreciate, mister president, my distinguished salutations". It's probably based on official documents from parties like the UN and the EU that have many if not all documents translated to all member languages, so that was a very interesting bias to spot.

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