Google Translate is now more effective than ever. Google is upgrading the translation app to incorporate an offline version of its neural machine translation (NMT) technology.

The technology will attempt to take a more nuanced look at phrases rather than individual words. Users can download the technology, and it will run directly on Google Translate. The feature is available for both iOS and Android.

The neural system translates whole sentences at a time, rather than piece by piece. It uses broader context to help determine the most relevant translation, which it then rearranges and adjusts to sound more like a real person speaking with proper grammar. This makes translated paragraphs and articles a lot smoother and easier to read. Previously, this feature was limited only to online.

Since each language set is just 35-45MB, they won’t take too much storage space on your phone when you download them. You can then begin to enjoy better translations without the hassle of finding an internet connection.

Google is rolling the features out gradually. By the 13th, most users should have access to the update, and by the 15th, it should be fully available.

Here’s a full list of the 59 available languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jannada, Korean, Lavtian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

(Source: The Verge)