How can I translate a English to Greek on the internet?

Question

I'm writing a book with a Greek character and I want to use a few Greek expressions! I've tried to do it online but the Greek translation is in strange characters, which I don't understand. Apologies for my ignorance but how can I translate it into modern, spoken Greek?

Answer 1

I am afraid Internet is not going to help you that much. I have tried a number of translating sites and the result looks always like:

"το όνομά μου είναι rikhi"

right?

so, you better take help from someone Greek. you may try online chatrooms for some Greek speaking people. for staying safe, take feedback from more than 1 person on the same sentence.

Best of luck with your book! :)

Answer 2

Modern spoken Greek uses the same (Hellenic) alphabet as the ancient Greeks, to change the characters to the Roman alphabet (the one you can read), just copy the internet translation and paste it into Notepad (notepad doesn't keep formatting, like font details, just the letters themselves).

However, because the Greek letters represent different sounds than their Roman keyboard equivalents, what you get won't be a literal rendering of Greek speech, you really will have to find someone who can speak Greek to help you.

For example, the text posted by Oracle above would be spoken approximately as:

EMO Epipedo 1 pose eeporo eeayetaphrasoe enan agglo sta elleenika ...

Answer 3

It's Easy - Example's

English - Politician / Greek Translation - Gay
English - Footballer / Greek Translation - Gay
English - U.S Senate / Greek Translation - Gay
English - Clergyman / Greek Translation - Gay

and so on...

Answer 4

ΗΜΟ Επίπεδο 1 πώς μπορώ να μεταφράσω έναν Αγγλο στα ελληνικά στο διαδίκτυο; Γράφω ένα βιβλίο με έναν ελληνικό χαρακτήρα και θέλω να χρησιμοποιήσω μερικές ελληνικές εκφράσεις! Έχω προσπαθήσει να το κάνω on-line αλλά η ελληνική μετάφραση είναι στους παράξενους χαρακτήρες, τους οποίους δεν καταλαβαίνω. Συγγνώμες για την άγνοιά μου αλλά πώς μπορώ να την μεταφράσω στα σύγχρονα, προφορικά ελληνικά; (5 λεπτά πριν - 2 απαντήσεις)

Answer 5

I don't know if this is exactly what you want but go to the website
http://www.dictionary.com and then click "Translator" and select "English to Greek"

or this link will take you directly there:
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html

Answer 6

You make a hard copy and then pencil it in.

Answer 7

http://world.altavista.com/

Answer 8

try
www.appliedlanguage.com/languages/greek_translation.shtml