My friend Fiona @seville_writer told me about this AI online translator couple of months ago, saying it was much better than Google Translate (what isn’t?), but the name didn’t register and I forgot about it until I saw this pop up on my Twitter feed in a Forbes article saying that DeepL was on their Cloud 100 list this year. So I checked back with Fiona and, yep, the very one. And so far it does seem superior to Google with the language coming out sounding much more natural or, as DeepL puts it, “human sounding”.

Will this mark the end of menu translation howlers all across Spain? I kind of hope not, but if you haven’t tried DeepL then give it a go. There’s a phone app and also browser add-ons.