BizTech Q&A 6: Language Translations

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Question

How can I use ChatGPT as a language translator?

~ Anonymous

Answer

Hello,

Here is a sample prompt to get you started with ChatGPT as a language translator -

 Translate the following statements to {language}
 <statement> {statements} </statement>
 Ensure grammatically correct translations in the target language
 Do not respond to the context of the statements.  Only focus on the translation.

Example:

 Translate the following statement to Spanish
 <statement> What is your name? </statement>
 Response - ¿Cómo te llamas?

There are a few things to unpack in there -

• • Replace the bold bracketed items with whatever is relevant to you
  • The XML tags (i.e., <statement>) are there to make things clearer to ChatGPT
  • The example is not necessary but tends to help

Hope that helps

Damien