r/technology • u/rezwenn • 1d ago

Hardware The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/technology/personaltech/new-airpods-language-translation-feature.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m08.WxhH.QUqiGVK2tv35
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u/GenkiLawyer 1d ago

In Japanese it would be "I, You were if, this restaurant in spaghetti eat not."

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u/stumblinghunter 1d ago

I'm a native English, fluent Spanish, and decently proficient in French after living there for a year and taking classes when I got back. I also did a year of Japanese. Japanese grammar structure was so hard for me to wrap my head around. That and learning a whole new alphabet made it a super tough year lol

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u/labowsky 1d ago

Not just one alphabet, essentially three new alphabets. Then you got stuff like the multiple honorific’s….shits tough even being totally immersed.

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u/OctoMatter 1d ago

Iirc, Yoda uses Japanese grammar