Hey\n\nI don't use online translators on principle, especially for French and German because the grammar is always a little strange and you don't always get the correct meaning across I have found!!! (Lost in translation... literally). I studied sites such as\n\nhttp://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html\n\nand\n\nhttp://translation2.paralink.com/\n\nthough I am still trying to find one which gives generally accurate results. Any suggestions?\n\n(A good way to check the accuracy of a translator is to type a message, translate it to another language and translate it back to language).\n\nOn the contrary, does anyone knoe of any software on the market which is capable of accuratly translating European languages (preferably German/French though you can get alot of variation depending on which part of the world the langauge comes from)\n\nAlso on the contrary, does anyone have any amusing stories regarding online translators? (The can be a nightmare for businesses)\n\nRegards
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Generally speaking, I do not trust online translators at all. They are only useful to get a gist of what the original source text is saying. Currently, we do not have the technology to produce a target text that accurately conveys the meaning of the original text AND is grammatically correct in the target text. It's just not possible without human intervention. \n\nBy the way, the way you mentioned to check the accuracy of a translator is probably not the best method to use, because back translations are never accurate, even with a human. Back translations are never considered an accurate form of translation testing in the industry. It is difficult for even the best human translator to determine exactly what the original author meant to say through a translated phrase. A good translator is able to convey the meaning of a source text. A machine cannot determine meaning very easily.\n\nThe link below demonstrates SYSTRAN machine translations. At the end, it shows what happens when you translate the same phrase over and over again with different languages.
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Good translator pages:\n\nhttp://www.google.co.in/language_tools?h...\n\nhttp://babelfish.altavista.com/...
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Well, I'll apologize in advance for the poor choices, but I have found it difficult to find a good online Deutsch-Deutsch dictionary.  Do they even exist?\n\nAnyways, here are a few options I've found, but be warned: the Duden site is good, but only gives you part of a definition.  If you want the entire entry, you have to pay.  But you can still get some good use out of it.\n\nhttp://www.duden.de/ (click on Duden-Suche on the left)\nhttp://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/\nhttp://www.canoo.net/\nhttp://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/DWB (this one's kind of difficult to navigate)\nhttp://www.woerterbuch.info/ (this is actually a thesaurus, but gives the synonyms in German)\n\nHope that helps, and sorry I can't offer more!
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The problem with most automatic translation services is that words can mean different things depending on the context.  For instance, you can say, "I dig that song" and the translator would say "I shovel that song" or something to that effect.  Even seemingly straightforward translations are difficult.\n\nUsing a word-by-word translation is also not a good way of doing it, as different methods of grammar and usage can make the translated piece look like gibberish.\n\nThere are a few engines that are not free that are approaching human level intelligent translation, but there are just too many ambiguities to consider without having a human who understands not just the words, but the grammar, vocabulary, and context.  For that, only human translation is the best way to send communications so they are understood.\n\nNearly all translation services are performed by humans in business and important correspondence.
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You can not use an online translator and have it translated correctly into Latin.  It is just not possible.  The nouns will not be declined and the verbs will not be conjugated.  It needs to be done by a real person for it to be even remotely accurate.  Also, odds are that a translation will not be verbatim in Latin - things do not always translate straight across.
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You are right, any computer translating anything will just make a mess of it and it can quite often lead to confusion or even end up giving you the opposite meaning! I studied a degree in translation for 4 years, and it is frustrating that some people think that a job that would take a few hours for a professional to translate, can be done as good in seconds by a computer. Translations ARE necessary (unlike someone else has said) and I am sure you can find people that can speak pretty much every language in this web page. But you can't take advantage of that and ask them to translate a very long text, that's taking the mickey, if that's what you want, then you'll have to pay someone to get a proper translation. But if you just want a few sentences translated, just ask here and I'm sure more than one person will be happy to help.
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Go here and translate phrases. You can learn some basic phrases that way.\nhttp://translation2.paralink.com/
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Automatic translations are a real catastrophe...\n\nJe t'aimerais toujours.
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You could use Google´s... On the right hand side of where you type in your question or search keywords, there is a link titled Language tools... You can type everything into it both ways and in many other languages as well... I use it now in Brazil when I do not know how to say something in Portuguese. Happy translating!
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here are several translators including some for fun. don't download the page though. it is corrupted and i need to rewrite it because of that. i'll get around to it one of these days when you all stop asking so many questions. :)\n\nhttp://dwight.clickthesky.com/hhelper/webtools/translators.htm
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altavista.com/translate\nis pretty good but the truth is an online translator won't replace an actual person \nyou can pay to get an actual personm to translate it
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Since they seem to be in French?  I can't translate the titles, but they do seem to be mass printed.  There is one book on Amazon.com for sale used.  There are a few othere books on Amazon.fr and Amazon.ca
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Please see the link below for an english to romanian translation service. It doesn't look too professional but nethertheless it does the job for you. It uses the InterTran service for translation.\n\nedit: I've added a 2nd link for an online dictionary as well.
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I don't know if you have already or not, but you might want to go to the bottom and log on to German Yahoo and post this question in Deutsch...to show that you spead German...probably get some response.
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You can't translate German literally word-for-word into engllsh. Altavista Bablefish tries to do this & so, doesn't translate accurately.  I live in Germany & speak reasonably good German, so here's my translation: "We have been asked, in the past few months for these Christian names - however, we couldn't prove or confirm them in all cases. (You can obtain a formal confirmation from the registry office for a fee of 15 EUR.)
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have you tried the automatic translator service from google? there are dozens of sites that will give you an automated (not perfect) translation!
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The question asks you to explain how you would go about translating the text you have been given, and your reasons for this e.g. would you just translate it literally, word for word? No, of course you wouldn't, because this would produce the sort of nonsensical result that you get when you try to translate something with Google!  You would instead first read the text, and once you have thoroughly understood its meaning, you would rewrite the text in English.  If the original text has been written in a particular style of language, then you might aim to convey this in your translation e.g. you might decide to translate "nous allons a Mc Do" as "we are going to Micky D's" rather than "we are going to McDonalds", as this will better convey the informal tone of the original.  You will be making these sort of decisions when you transalate your text, and the question just asks you to outline them.  Hope this helps get you started!