Google Translate turns 20, adds a very requested feature

Google Translate is now 20 years old, believe it or not. The service launched back in 2006 as a humble experiment, and today supports « about 250 languages », and more than 60,000 potential language pairs, supporting 95% of the world’s population. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most used language pair is English to Spanish. The most translated phrase is « thank you ».

More than 1 billion people use Google Translate every month, and more than 1 trillion words are translated by the service each month. To celebrate its 20th birthday, Google is launching one of the most requested features:…