diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-translate/samples/snippets/quickstart.py b/packages/google-cloud-translate/samples/snippets/quickstart.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+def run_quickstart():
+    # [START translate_quickstart]
+    # Imports the Google Cloud client library
+    from google.cloud import translate
+
+    # Your Translate API key
+    api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
+
+    # Instantiates a client
+    translate_client = translate.Client(api_key)
+
+    # The text to translate
+    text = 'Hello, world!'
+    # The target language
+    target = 'ru'
+
+    # Translates some text into Russian
+    translation = translate_client.translate(text, target_language=target)
+
+    print('Text: {}'.format(text))
+    print('Translation: {}'.format(
+        translation['translatedText'].encode('utf-8')))
+    # [END translate_quickstart]
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    run_quickstart()
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-translate/samples/snippets/requirements.txt b/packages/google-cloud-translate/samples/snippets/requirements.txt
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+google-cloud-translate==0.20.0