Python Googletrans – Translate English to Spanish

In this post we will be creating a Python script that will translate English text to Spanish. To do this we will be using the Googletrans library, this library makes it easy to translate text from one language to another. It uses the Google Translate API and supports over 100 languages.

At the time of writing this there are issues affecting the library although you can use an alternative version of the library. To install it run the following in command line.

pip install googletrans==3.1.0a0

Fun Fact: Did you know that Spanish is one of the most widely spoken and studied languages in the world? With over 460 million native speakers, it ranks as the second most widely spoken language globally, after Mandarin Chinese. Additionally, it’s the third most commonly studied language in the world, after English and French.

See the snippet of Python code below where we translate English text to Spanish. For this example we will be taking user input which will be in English and return the translation in Spanish to output.

from googletrans import Translator

while True:
    translator = Translator()
    text=input("Enter text: ")
    translation = translator.translate(text, dest='es')
    print(translation.text,"n")

An example of the script running can be seen below.

Enter text: hello
Hola 

Enter text: whats your name
cuál es tu nombre 

Enter text: my name is Jennifer
Mi nombre es Jennifer 
>>>

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