Microsoft Bing Translator for Windows Phone adds new offline languages

Microsoft's Translator app has been updated with more offline languages - Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch and Russian.

These are added to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, English and Simplified Chinese.

It means you can download dictionaries for those languages and translate when you haven't got a data connection.

Other languages can be translated online.

The free app is still listed as Translator, but in the description is called Bing Translator:

Bing Translator is your companion when you need to overcome the language barrier. Use your camera, voice or keyboard to enter text you want to translate. Use Bing Translator on-the-go, even when you don't have an Internet connection. 

Text translation – Type and translate text into more than 40 languages. 

Camera translation – Translate signs, menus, newspapers, or any printed text with your device's camera in an instant. 

Voice translation – Translate by speaking into your phone. Voice translation requires a network connection. 

Text to speech – Hear translations spoken with a native speaker's accent. Text to speech requires a network connection. 

Offline translation – Translate when you are not connected to the Internet and when you want to avoid expensive data roaming charges, by using downloadable offline language packs. 

Word of the Day – Improve your vocabulary by pinning the Translator to your Start screen. 

Pin each mode to your Start screen and jump straight to translating in a single tap. 

Copy and paste or use your keyboard to quickly enter the text you want to translate. 

It's a nifty app, especially with offline translations, but make sure you've got memory space on your phone if you want to download languages. There's no option yet to save the dictionaries on a memory card.

Get Bing Translator here. It works on WP8 and WP7.8.

Update: after a couple of messages (thank you Anon and SK) we should add that the initial download of the Translator app does not include the offline dictionaries. They are downloaded in-app and that's when phone storage available should be considered.