According to a recent in The New York Times, you no longer need to learn Japanese to connect with locals in Tokyo.
Invest 2,000 hours to achieve fluency? Forget that ¡ª all you need is a pair of trusty AirPods and Apple¡¯s new live translation feature. A tap of a screen and the iPhone will record and produce an automatically translated manuscript of your conversation, handy dandy for a night out on Golden Gai.
It¡¯s a feature that makes my heart sink. But not because I am one of those foolish individuals who did pour 2,000 hours into mastering Japanese, and I regret the wasted time.
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