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Google has introduced its iPhone/ iPod Touch specific version of Google Translate created by two Google engineers, Allen Hutchinson and David Singleton. Users can now have access to words and phrases from 2 dozen languages while on the move.

Gaining access to Google Translate is quite simple. Users can either go directly to ‘translate.google.com’ in their browser or choose the ‘more’ tab on the Google website. Google Translate supports translations up to 24 different languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German and Spanish among others. A few handy phrases for quick reference can also be stored on this application.

“Google Translate for iPhone is optimized for speed, supports all of the existing Google Translate language pairs, and uses a client-side data-store on your iPhone to hang on to your past translations so you always have them at hand, even if you can’t use the local data network,” says software engineer Allen Hutchison.

A data connection for your Safari Browser is needed since Google Translate is a web-service. While the service itself is free, network operators may charge for the data usage depending on their roaming rates.

Though the iPhone seems to mess up the finer nuances of scripts like Arabic it certainly reduces the language barrier while traveling in a foreign country.

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