BAMBARA is on Google Translate! Is it any good?
A presentation, walk-through, testing and review of Google Translate for Bambara, which came out in May 2022.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 I ni ce!
0:39 Under the hood
2:19 Features
5:48 TESTING: English to Bambara
8:06 Harder
9:12 Student favorites
10:07 Distinct pronunciations
11:11 Advanced
12:22 Proverbs
13:05 Idioms
13:15 TESTING: Bambara to English
14:03 Harder
14:28 Hardest
18:06 Tones
19:55 Variation
21:03 Non-standard spelling
21:20 Tone
21:53 N'ko script
22:02 Take-away
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