On some sites one finds a hyper link, usually contained within a national flag, so that when one clicks it, the Web page is quick translated into the language represented by the flag. If this possibility has not yet been tried, could we make a test and let the readers decide?
As a first initiative I put a few links in my signature until such times as it may be included. One is _http://babelfish.altavista.com/ On this page one can translate an English page into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Bablefish translation is powered by Systran: _http://www.systran.co.uk/ The version of Firefox and computer/software I had did not provide anything useful when trying Chinese traditional, but Russian and Dutch read better. Probabably one needs to have a computer and a browser that are set up to reflect a wide range of characters.
Looking up 'free translation' in Google gave 9.400.000 hits.
To get more languages and find the best translations one can try out a variety of services.
A word of caution is found on _http://www.word2word.com/free.html :
Edit note 20080103: A couple of more sites that may be of use:
1). _http://www.babylon.com/affiliates/landing/index.php?id=10588&WT.srch=1&gclid=CNrD5YHB2pACFQtGQwod1SXfWQ offers a free download that they claim can help with translation in 75 languages. At the time of typing the software is called Babylon 7.
2). _http://www.imtranslator.com/# explains that:
As a first initiative I put a few links in my signature until such times as it may be included. One is _http://babelfish.altavista.com/ On this page one can translate an English page into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Bablefish translation is powered by Systran: _http://www.systran.co.uk/ The version of Firefox and computer/software I had did not provide anything useful when trying Chinese traditional, but Russian and Dutch read better. Probabably one needs to have a computer and a browser that are set up to reflect a wide range of characters.
Looking up 'free translation' in Google gave 9.400.000 hits.
To get more languages and find the best translations one can try out a variety of services.
A word of caution is found on _http://www.word2word.com/free.html :
If the reader of this post is interested in the subject, one task could be to test the translation services and give a review of the quality.Free Online Translation Services
The amount and quality of free translation may vary from site to site. These sites are commerical[sic] sites that are providing free language translation as a means of trying to get your business. We are recognizing them because of their free offers. Please be aware of the limitations of automatic translation. These systems will never provide a 100% accurate translation of your text. The links we provide are to free resources; however, if you do need to purchase translating dictionaries or software you can visit this [_http://secure.worldlanguage.com/world/cfm/gotofunc.cfm?typescanid=2&calledfrom=210055]link.
Edit note 20080103: A couple of more sites that may be of use:
1). _http://www.babylon.com/affiliates/landing/index.php?id=10588&WT.srch=1&gclid=CNrD5YHB2pACFQtGQwod1SXfWQ offers a free download that they claim can help with translation in 75 languages. At the time of typing the software is called Babylon 7.
2). _http://www.imtranslator.com/# explains that:
What is ImTranslator?
Online Translator powered by PROMT Translation Server performs real-time translation for English to/from French, German, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish; French to/from German or Spanish; Italian to English or Russian; Russian to/from French, German or Spanish language pairs.