Free online foreign language translation
services and cheap software translation services
Search for English Language Learning CDs, DVDs,
videos and more at Amazon
From these sites you can translate to and from many languages
automatically, instantly, online, for free, or, if you're wanting something
more accurate, low cost translation services are also offered.
Please note that it will be many
years before there is a truly accurate online instant language translation
service. The automatic services advise that they are just a guide only
so that you may get the 'gist' of the meaning of a passage. If you're wanting
something properly translated, you need to hire a human translator.
AltaVista Not only can you translate text from English to Chinese Simplified,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Spanish and back
again, you can also type in a web site address and translate that too.
Their Russian link only converts from Russian to English but not English
to Russian.
WorldLingo World Lingo cover the same languages as AltaVista but they also cover
Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Greek and Russian. An extra feature of World
Lingo is the option to include a subject, making the resulting online foreign
text translation a little bit more accurate.
Free Translation Free Translation offer similar language translation services to AltaVista
and World Lingo but they also translate Norwegian into English.
InterTran by Translation Experts Our pick purely for the extra languages offered. As well as many of
the ones above, Intertran allows you to translate text or websites from:
Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic,
Filipino, Polish, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Welsh, Turkish and Latin
into English. There are also additional translation options offered, including
alternative translations for some of the words where the meanings may not
be clear. Worth a visit.
Langenberg If you're not wanting to visit any particular site, or just wish to
translate a few words, bookmark this page. The author has assembled all
the translation boxes from the foreign translation competitors sites into
one page. Also some dictionary translations available.
Electronic
Desktop Solutions Pty Ltd For a fee, this company offers human translation into a variety of
languages, though the focus seems to be on Asian languages. Specialities
include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Indonesian.
English and Russian speech recognition and voice input
will give you over 1,000,000 words including American idioms, medical,
technical, legal, and business terms, as well as common and colloquial
expressions and interactive language learning system. The language course
is designed as a two-level system with placement and progress tests and
the full complex of grammatical, vocabulary, and phonetic exercises to
help you master English. Special functions say, translate, or explain the
foreign language material. Special text book included. Find
out more here
