What is Translation?

Translation is when you turn one language into another, so people can understand it.

Imagine you have a toy box full of blocks, each block has a word or phrase on it in your language. Now imagine you have a special tool that changes the words on the blocks to match a new language. That’s like translation!

When someone speaks or writes in one language, a translator listens or reads it carefully, then finds the matching words and phrases in another language.

It's like when you draw a picture of a cat, and your friend draws the same kind of cat, both pictures show the same thing, but they look slightly different.

People use translation to talk with each other even if they don’t all speak the same language. It helps us read books, watch movies, or send messages from one country to another, just like how you might write a letter to your friend and then mail it so they can read it too!