As a traveler who travel around the world, you will find yourself often need to get some information from non-english website, like Spanish, Germany, French etc. If you are gifted and multilingual, great, the world is at your side. However if you only know English, do not be disappointed. English is still the No.1 popular language in the world, and even in the internet there is a lot of ways to understand the non-english website.
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All online translation tools in one page. Easy to use.
Google Language Tool
Google is so powerful that it add free automatic translation function in
its search engine. Currently, Google support English translation from French,
German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. The state-of-the-art technology is
accepted and at least you can grab the information you need easily.
Click Google logo at right side to go to the Google website,
then input your link like www.google.fr ( just an example. You need to
input your own link). You will find the [ Translate this page ] link
at the search result. Click there. Bingo. The original web in French now is translated to English.
You also can use
Google Language Toolbox free translation feature.
Babel Fish Translation
If you find Google do not support auto translation service for the
link you wish to visit, or you need to translate other languages to English, or
you need to translate other language between each other instead of English,
Babel Fish Translation is your friend.
AltaVista Babel Fish Translation enables you to translate short passages of text or
entire Web sites among 19 pairs of languages, including English to and from a number of languages
like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Dutch, Greek, Russian etc.,
and to and from several specific pairs of languages.
You also could add Babel Fish Translation to your own site. Cool.
Free 2 Professional Translation
English to 10 languages including Norwegian, Russian etc and
English from 7 languages.
Free Translation Online:
16 paris language translation, Russian is the highlight.
Systran Language Translation Technology
Systran is the software company whose core technology powers revolutionary translation solutions for the Internet.
that facilitate communication in 36 language pairs and in 20 specialized domains, including Google and Babel Fish.
Systran provide desktop products as well as free on-line service. However
its on-line service user interface is not that friendly. But some unique translations it provide are
Arabic - English, Swedish - English etc.
Onelook Dictionary Search
As best on-line search engine for words and phrases, more than 5 million words in more than 900 online
dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine.
Translate words feature. Type a word into the search box and select
"Find translations" to retrieve a list of dictionary web sites that
have translations of that word into other languages.
Foreign Languages For Travelers
Common Language Phrase Book
The Zompist Phrasebook
The travel phrasebook in French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Danish, Dutch.
