To translate a corpus of English text to French, we need to build a recurrent neural network (RNN).
Note: RNNs are designed to take sequences of text as inputs or return sequences of text as outputs, or both. They're called recurrent because the network's hidden layers have a loop in which the output and cell state from each time step become inputs at the next time step. This recurrence serves as a form of memory.
It allows contextual information to flow through the network so that relevant outputs from previous time steps can be applied to network operations at the current time step.
References:
https://towardsdatascience.com/language-translation-with-rnns-d84d43b40571