Translators and Linguists

Looking for the best online TRANSLATOR. Specifically English to Vietnamese, and vice versa.
Any thoughts?

My thought is that there are no GOOD Viet/English translators on line. The grammar differences in the two languages ensure that you will usually get junk if you attempt more than a one word translation. For an example, I just tried "I want to go home" which is "Toi muon ve nha" in Viet. Google Translate worked but vdict.com didn’t.
I just went back and tried a few longer sentences and Google did a good job! They must have been making improvements lately.
For single words and short sentences Google works better than vdict.com, They also allow you to hear the pronunciation.The good thing about vdict is that they have a virtual Viet keyboard for Viet/English translation.

I’ve found Google Translate and similar, e.g. Babelfish, work well on some languages but other languages come out as English "but not as we know it Jim" (Spock). Are online translators really that bad or is it a case of garbage in garbage out or that they can’t handle idiomatic language?

Success rate is close to zero. I do not use them anymore.

Okay, so I just started French classes. I want to learn very badly, but am also a very shy person. Does anyone know of a free online translator that will say the words to you as well as translate??

(ESL) English as a Second Language, Listening & Talking Links:

The following links will help you find activities to practice listening, reading, grammar and pronunciation or check out the latest news.

http://www.spokenenglish.org/

http://www.rong-chang.com/ne/

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Vocabulary/

http://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/smalltalk/smalltalk.htm

Free Online Language Translator

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://www.google.com/translate_t

http://www.byki.com/free_lang_software.pl

http://www.google.co.in/language_tools?hl=en

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