Google Translate is not the first English-Maltese dictionary service online, as the first Maltese website, created by migrant Grazio Falzon 14 years ago, published a list of translated words. However, it faltered when prompted to translate thunder into Maltese or karrozzin into English, proof that this service is for simple and light use.

It could translate simple words such as book and car very easily. 'Our statistical models are built from vast quantities of monolingual and translated texts using automated machine learning techniques.' 'Of course, there's always room for improvement, and we're working hard to improve translation quality. He claimed that Google Translate is the first freely available machine translation system for several languages. This means we can now translate between languages read by 98 per cent of internet users,' said Google's product manager Jeff Chin while making the announcement on the official Google blog. 'The rollout of these seven additional languages marks a new milestone: automatic translations between 41 languages (1,640 language pairs!). Maltese was added a few days ago together with Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian and Galician. After launching a version of Google search in the Maltese language several years ago, Google has just introduced an English-Maltese/Maltese-English translation service in its Google Translate.

The Maltese cannot escape the global phenomenon that is Google.

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