Basically, I am looking for an English --> Spanish online translator that is free. Anybody know of any good ones?
2007-03-04 11:06:25 · 6 answers · asked by BlueEyez84 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Sorry, but there aren't any good translator websites. It's not possible, at least not yet. These sites can translate single words, or sometimes short phrases, but as soon as you get to whole sentences, they invariably screw up.
The reason is that these sites try to do a mechanical one-to-one translation, and languages simply don't work like that. To translate a text, you have to understand it, and its context, and a machine can't do that.
These sites are just about okay if you a have foreign text and all you need is a rough idea what it says - as long as it's a simple text, the translation will probably give you a general idea. But that's it, they're not good if what you want is a real text in a foreign language.
2007-03-04 11:24:44 · answer #1 · answered by Ms. S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with the person above - there are no good free websites for translation. If you have a good concept of the language feel free to use one of the translator sites but you'll need to fix it up. They translate a lot of things literally and it doesn't make much sense, so you will need to fix it up. However, MS Word has a translation feature (look under Tools and Language) and it does the same thing.
2007-03-04 11:50:56 · answer #2 · answered by carinyosa99 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hi,
I have these 2 sites, free:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html
http://www.spanishdict.com/
hope it will do
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2007-03-04 11:29:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.worldlingo.com
2007-03-04 15:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
babelfish.com
2007-03-04 11:13:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
www.spanishtranslator.com
2007-03-04 11:09:37 · answer #6 · answered by Softballpig123 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋