Go to Babelfish or any of the other sites suggested by these people and type in a phrase or sentence in English, like "I get fatter every day."
Translate it into, say, Portuguese and copy the answer down.
Type in the answer and translate it back into English.
Do you get what you originally put in?
Does it even make sense?
Would you trust it to translate a whole script correctly if it can't manage a 5 word phrase?|||I don't know about Google itself. But you can go to a site called "Babelfish" to set up translation from various languages into other languages. There are also other translation sites which you can access by going to Google and typing in the language you are interested in. But you must be wary as these are automatic, machine-driven translations. Scan the translation and look for nutty parts that don't make sense. When this happens, get out your dictionary and look up the words yourself. Look for secondary meanings of words or move the words around a little, or look for phrases, "idioms" with special meanings. For example, in English the phrase "time flies like an arrow" might come back in another language as having to do with time and insects enjoying an obsolete weapon. If you look the phrase up in a good dictionary, though, you'd find it as an idiom, a fixed phrase meaning that time seems to go very quickly. Some languages, like Chinese, are full of these. Others, like Spanish and Portuguese, don't use pronouns quite the way we do -- the 3rd person can be translated as "he" or "you" and sometimes the computer will assume it's one when it should be the other. You have to use your own common sense for things like this.|||Go to google front page and to the right of the search bar one of the links is 'Language Tools' -%26gt; click that. If you can't get to it, it's here: http://www.google.com.au/language_tools?鈥?/a>
Happy translating~|||Hi,
1. Go to Google by using the URL: www.google.com. When the Google home page appears, click on Language Tools at the end of the search box. A translate page will appear.
2. Either paste or type your text into the Translate box provided.
3. At the bottom of the box for your text, select the languages for the original and the translated language.
4. Click on the Translate button located after those language selection boxes.
If you get that dumb message asking you to type in some strange looking letters, do it, but you'll have to do everything over again including entering your material to translate. That happens to me quite often, and for that reason, I always type my material in Word if it's of any significant length; then paste it into the translate box.
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