Translators and Linguists

i am looking for a conversation translator for a skit me and a friend of mine are writing. is there a translator online to translate a conversation to german, french, japanese, etc.?

http://translation.babylon.com – Free online dictionary from Babylon, from English to german, french, japanese and vice versa.

Babylon also provides human translation service within 1 hour for $0.16 per word. I don’t know it’s expensive or not. Check it out here.

http://translator.babylon.com/SubmitText3.aspx?affID=12042

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I am looking for a free translator online that is very reliable. I would like to write complete paragraphs and not just one word.

i suggest google too…. when translating single words it’s very reliable (also dicios.com), but when talking about sentences i’d say about 60% correct, always scrambling with inflexions, anyway still the best i’d say, with the general meaning of the sentence correct

ps of course i use it reverse

I have been using that Latin o English translator for a while now but the page doesn’t work anymore.

http://www.stars21.com/translator/latin_to_english.html

I use the second dictionary CTCWEB. Write "timor" in the box and try to translate it and tell me what happens please.

Will it ever be fixed?

I just went there and it didn’t work for me either. It could that they are having problems with the site.

I wanted to translate something from English to Japanese (simplified) but I can’t seem to find a decent online translator. Any ideas?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but NONE of the online "translators" work. They are so rubbish, inaccurate and so bad that nobody should ever call them "translators"!! Please do your translation work offline.

I really like the Google translator, but it doesn’t do Latin. Does anyone know an online translator that does Latin? The fancier the better.

Online translators just can’t handle Latin, evidently because of all the inflectional endings. Your best bet would be to post your specific questions here, where there are several good Latinists to help.

I need a good online translator, the google one sucks the bing what sucks and the yahoo one sucks, they dont get even close to translating it right, i need a spanish to english and a english to spanish one.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I would NEVER even call those online things "translators" because NONE of them are accurate! Please do all your translations offline.

I am communicating with a girl who is from Brazil, and she is speaking in English, but it’s very bad English, so I’m assuming she is using a bad online translator, possibly Google’s. Do you know of a good English to Portuguese translator that is almost 100% accurate? That way I can speak to her in Portuguese, and it will be easier for us to understand each other.

Hi Alex, I am Brazilian and translater and I need to tell you. Any online translator can’t make the work a translator person. They don’t have feelings. They are dictionaries. I heard it at college and I needed to agree about. For example if you tell a Brazilian I can get on right now in Portuguese it would sound very strange. We get into the internet or we use the computer. Every online translator would translate exactly what you said. Once I tried to translate "You can watch on YouTube" to Italian and the translator said to the Italian You can there is a clock inside of a tube. Conclusion, the Italian didn’t understand what watch/clock I was talking about. But I know a good one it is www.dictionary.com Any serious problem about comprehension just e-mail me. Good luck with your friend

(A translator for pinyin to english is preferred.) I would like a translator that translates whole phrases, not just a dictionary that translates individual words or characters. Thank you!

zhongwen.com is pretty good

I need to translate these sentences for a christmas card i am sending to my sister. Please don’t just copy and paste it into a translator.

Wishing the holiday season brings only happiness and joy for you and your loved ones.

Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season.

Deseando que la temporada de las fiestas les traiga felicidad y alegria a ti y a tus seres queridos.

Los mejores deseos a ti y a tu familia en estos dias festivos.

I need to write a letter to a potential client, but he speaks Spanish much better than English. I’m afraid that may be why he didn’t purchase what I’m offering to begin with- he may not have understood everything I was offering. I have Spanish materials to send him, but I really want to write a letter to go with it. I’m afraid of using an online translator for fear that it will be choppy and come out badly. Any advice?

Just use an offline translation service or a good dictionary, like you said, ALL the online "translators" (I wouldn’t even call them translators!) are utter RUBBISH.