I have friends throughout the world and have trouble sometimes expressing my thoughts in other dialects.
2007-09-08 06:27:09 · 8 answers · asked by vitraux 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
These are both great but i would reccomend the second more!
Hope this helps!
Good Luck!
2007-09-08 06:36:36 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hate to disappoint you but automatic on line translators are terrible, and texts fed through them come up with a mumbo-jumbo which often does not make any sense at all. You might get away with a few simple words, but the minute that you use idiomatic expressions you will have absurdities thrown at you. Ditto for tenses that are not in the present tense. Many linguists on this website have spent a great deal of time trying to unravel some messages which people cannot understand because they are the result of electronic translators. Just try a slightly difficult sentence in one of the sites named above, then feed the result back to be translated into English and you will see. It is amazing. You get English words in the middle of your foreign texts and incomprehensible sentences because the order of the words is all wrong. If you do not want to sound foolish to your friends across the world the only sure way to get a good translation is through knowing someone who is really bi-lingual and is aware of grammar and colloquialisms. Even on this site you get people who give you the completely wrong advice, because they are unfamiliar with the language requested and they rush to the automatic translator.
2007-09-08 06:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most computers have a 'Language button' for this purpose! Unfortunately, any direct translation attempt will loose meaning. Some WORDS in other languages have no english translation. First of all there are about 127 basic dialects throughout the world. Hungarian has about 25 different words for just LOVE (of different kinds!).
One would have difficulty with Ubangy(spelling?) unless the sound generator could phonetically mimic the clacking of discs in the mouth and sucking sounds associated with that language.
CHOW! I think i`ll go eat lunch!
2007-09-08 06:41:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Babelfish
2007-09-08 06:34:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://babelfish.altavista.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/
all great websites to translate english into other languages.
http://www.wordreference.com/
is also good
2007-09-08 06:31:06 · answer #5 · answered by greenpotato 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
freetranslation.com
2007-09-08 06:31:08 · answer #6 · answered by engelkind247 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
babelfish.com
2007-09-08 06:29:59 · answer #7 · answered by Mangy Coyote 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.skype.com
2007-09-08 06:29:49 · answer #8 · answered by vanessa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋