+Clive1717 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 As I am in the Czech Republic all the caches are naturally in the Czech language. As my native language is English I need to translate the Activities, Hints etc. Can anyone please advise? Thanks Quote Link to comment
+Nessie42 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 I usually just copy the relevant text from the listing and paste it into Google translate or a similar service. The result is not always perfect, but generally suffices for me to understand what I need to do. Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 On 8/18/2018 at 4:56 AM, Clive1717 said: As I am in the Czech Republic all the caches are naturally in the Czech language. As my native language is English I need to translate the Activities, Hints etc. Can anyone please advise? Thanks Cut and paste to Google translate will do it. Perhaps someone else can suggest an in-app option, but I'm not familiar with one. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'm in the same boat, just a little to the west - I live in Germany, but I'm not a native speaker. There are some work-arounds I've used. You haven't mentioned what you use to geocache - phone or just GPSr, so I'll give a few options. I use GPSr to find and (usually) cell phone to log. If you are a mobile phone user, you can use Chrome to view the cache description, which you can set to translate pages. You can also use the Google Translate app. I have mine set up so it can translate German, even offline - it was a 30 MB or so download that I did on wifi. I use a Garmin Montana but don't even bother translating the descriptions ahead of time - the Google Translate app can work through the camera on your phone, so I can just hold up the GPSr screen to my phone and see the text in English. If you're a GSAK user, there is a translate macro. You can translate cache descriptions and then export directly to your GPSr. (I have not used this myself, but I know it's available.) All in all, I find it much easier to translate cache descriptions now than the last time I was caching in Europe (2007-2009). Back then, I'd often just set a list of caches I wanted to find, translate the cache descriptions ahead of time, then type up the bare minimum cache description I could, paste into one big Microsoft Word document, and print the page to take with me. Much easier now! Quote Link to comment
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