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[LordSwagley]

Bioware announced awhile back that we would encounter new races while "exploring a different part of the Space" and thus assuming our Hero is the first to make contact, how exactly would humanity go about communicating with a new alien civilisation? I mean apparently it has been done before when the council mediated a peace between Humanity and the Turians and I know the different races use omni-tools and implants/suit systems to understand eachother but can that technology just auto-translate any new spoken language instantly like in Star Trek? I mean I doubt every speaking race knows English (or whatever you speak) and I'd bet a Dreadnaught that you'll have atleast ONE new alien companion and you'll no doubt speak to new alien races. I know Javik insta-learned English when he made contact with Shepard (or did Shepard know Protean? I forget) and Shepard could understand the Protean VI on Illos thanks to the beacon but how will Bioware handle it this time? Will the new races be telepathic? Any guesses?

[Vazgen]

The game will probably take place centuries after colonization, so the aliens will speak English (or whatever language you'll choose to play with)

As for meeting new species, I don't think we'll be discovering new civilizations, more like meet races that we have not seen in the trilogy.

[LordSwagley]

The game will probably take place centuries after colonization, so the aliens will speak English (or whatever language you'll choose to play with)

As for meeting new species, I don't think we'll be discovering new civilizations, more like meet races that we have not seen in the trilogy.

Your probably right. Still would be interesting to make first contact with a new species though, aside from the game of charades inevitably to follow. Would make for some fun renegade interrupts.

[N7Jamaican]

Remember in Star Trek Enterprise the communications officer? She would have to translate alien languages, they repeat it to Captain Archer in English?  So just imagine some communications officer on the "Tempest" gathering alien languages for a database, that could be used for a future universal translator. 

 

In ME1-3, aren't they using a universal translator anyway?  All of those alien languages, don't forget dialects, it would probably be easier to have a "galactic common language" or a translator via omni-tool.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Like this: 

[AresKeith]

 

[Hanako Ikezawa]

How do you get the video to show like that? 

[AresKeith]

How do you get the video to show like that? 

 

I just copied and pasted the URL

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I just copied and pasted the URL

Ah, okay. Thank you. The way I used to do it doesn't work anymore, apparently. 

[LordSwagley]

Remember in Star Trek Enterprise the communications officer? She would have to translate alien languages, they repeat it to Captain Archer in English?  So just imagine some communications officer on the "Tempest" gathering alien languages for a database, that could be used for a future universal translator. 

 

In ME1-3, aren't they using a universal translator anyway?  All of those alien languages, don't forget dialects, it would probably be easier to have a "galactic common language" or a translator via omni-tool.

Only ever watched the first few seasons of voyager and tidbits of other series so I didn't know all that, assuming your right though then I guess it falls upon our secretar... err "Communications Officer" to do the dirty work for us could make for a tense first contact if your C.O is trying to translate alien gibberish when theres 30 of them all aiming guns at you. Then their speech slowly begins to sound English (or whatever).

[TheChosenOne]

This is how we'll communicate with the new species

 

[CannotCompute]

I was thinking about this the other day. We'll probably learn their language & ways of communicating gradually. Translation software, droids... such things would allow us to understand relatively fast.

[Big I]

By the end of the First Contact War humans and turians could understand each other. I don't know how that happened so quickly but it's canon (the comics show it, the Citadel DLC has a human prisoner being interogated by a turian). I doubt inability to communicate will be a plot point in the next ME.

[Berit]

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[KrrKs]

Meh, I'll play the bore again:

 

 

Codex/UPDATE: Bring Down the Sky

Secondary Codex Entries
Technology: Translation

Human cultures remain linguistically divided. Some converse in Spanish, others in Mandarin, Arabic, Swahili, etc. Every alien race has their own equally broad panoply of languages and dialects.
Most individuals know only their mother tongue, and rely on machine translation. Modern portable computers allow anyone with a few hundred credits of equipment to enjoy seamless real-time translation of alien languages, courtesy of handheld PDAs, computers in clothing or jewelry, or sub-dermal implants. Without fast and accurate translation, galactic trade and culture would not exist.
Governments provide subsidized software, updated through the public extranet "on the fly", often as users approach spaceport customs facilities. Even the batarians, who isolated themselves from galactic society nearly two decades ago, take pains to provide up-to-date glossaries and linguistic rules, though most suspect that this is only so they can continue exporting propaganda.
It is still considered broad-minded and practical to be able to speak without machine aid. Children often take courses in alien language, and most races can speak the simplified artificial "trade tongue" with little difficulty.
Some species must rely on machine translation to interact with the rest of the galaxy. Hanar, for example, cannot reproduce the spoken language of any humanoid species, and other races cannot reproduce hanar bioluminescence without mechanical aid. Newly discovered or obscure races don't have machine translation available until the linguists have had time to study them.

 

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