Voice Translation

First time when I came to France, I was thinking of some devices to translate my voice into French simply because French (and only French) is everywhere from restaurant to department ... ... umm. I had neither a good knowledge of French nor such devices. Thus, I would have bought some devices that recognize one's voice and play into target languages if they were available.

I'm aware of the difficulties in translations.  However, like other fields, this area is also making some progress. As an example, Google's Android phone application, shown in following video, understands and translates a person's voice in English to French. It's interesting, isn't it ?

How mothers deliver a baby

This is a video heavily shared in Facebook. A little girl explains how mothers deliver a baby :

Devices make people feel lonely

I was reading an article about text only friend, a good article indeed. I liked some of the points the writer mentioned in his article. One of them was:

"But the tragic, isolating thing is that we reach for our devices because we don’t want to seem lonely — which is causing us to avoid our peers and actually be lonely."

We say that we feel lonely if we don't have phones, laptops or PDAs. And we use them to avoid that. Actually, if we hadn't had such devices, we would have looked around and communicate with people. Moreover, I've seen many times when we go to meet a friend in his home, we start using his computer to browse Internet rather than sharing things each other. Thus, these devices are hindering us  from becoming more social.
Another point the writer has mentioned is:

“Everyone wants everyone else to say hi but doesn’t want to be the person saying hi"

I fully agree with this sentence too. I think no reason is needed to justify it. I take it as a premise sentence :).
And finally I knew another new word “fauxting’’ which means nothing but a fake texting.

Writing Emails in French ?

I receive many emails each day. No doubt, they are 99% French ones. Unlike at the beginning, I now understand French emails (at least I can guess the meaning :) ). In the worst case, I use online translation services. 

These days, I write emails in French too. I remember the hardest day when I tried to write email in French to get my transcript from Telecom SudParis. It was little bit urgent. As the lady there doesn't understand English, I must write it in French to get quickly processed. So terrible time ... I still remember. I laughed a lot when I knew transcript in English is "relevés de notes" in French :))...coz I was thinking a single word in French corresponding to that English one. I had  so much funs :)) and pains too :((. Now such practice is making my life easier...

Below I'll present the most commonly used French phrases in French emails so that I can reuse or anyone who wants to write email in French can use them. Note that the bold words are in English.
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Normally we start writing email with a greeting 'Bonjour' (Hello) in the email. 


Hello
Bonjour,

Hello Nobal,
Bonjour Nobal,

Technical Blog kicks off

Now I've lunched my Techincal blog. I have two more blogs: Phulbari (Nepali), Angrejee (English & French). My original intention was to write all English stuffs in Angrejee . However, I found its difficult... Thus, I lunched Techincal blog purely for Technical stuffs. I'll use Angrejee for  non-tech stuffs.

The Sixth Sense Technology

Social Media Traffic Changes

Here are some graphs that show the change in social media's traffic. All pictures are taken from mashable.com.