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Those interested in automatic translators will probably find this article useful:

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/how-google-translate-works-2353594.html

 

It is about how Google Translate works, and why it usually outperforms other automatic translators. To verify this claim, I translated a piece from English to Russian. The result was not perfect but it was very good. Here is what to do:

 

1) Go to http://translate.google.com

2) Specify languages, for example, English --> Russian

3) Paste (or type) the text to be translated.

4) Click on the “translate” button

 

The translated text will appear at once. You can just read it or cut-and-paste it into another document.

 

Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)

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Google Translate's coverage has been expanded dramatically. It now supports the translation between any of the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish (the new languages are shown in bold). From 26 language pairs, Google Translate now supports 506 language pairs and becomes the most comprehensive online translation tool available for free.

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English to French and back

 

 

 

Those interested in the automatic translators will probably find this article useful:

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This was with google translator

 

This is how Google Translate works, and why it usually outperforms other machine translators. To verify this, I translated a piece from English to Russian. The result was not perfect, but it was very good. Here's what to do:

 

1) Go to http://translate.google.com

2) Specify languages​​, eg English -> Russian

3) Paste (or type) the text for translation.

4) Click the "translate"

 

The translated text appears at a time. You can simply read or copy and paste into another document.

 

Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)

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Google Translate's coverage has been expanded dramatically. It now supports the translation between any of the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish (the new languages are shown in bold). From 26 language pairs, Google Translate now supports 506 language pairs and becomes the most comprehensive online translation tool available for free.

I translated your post english - french - german - english

 

Google Translate coverage has expanded dramatically. It now supports translations between following languages​​: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish (new language indicated in bold). Than 26 language pairs, Google Translate now supports 506 language combinations and is the most complete translation tool available for free online.

 

 

!!!!!! it was was not a good passage of text for a test, because it is a list of countries.

At first I thought it had cheated or I had pasted the original text back!!

 

 

Note how 'online' has moved position, this is becasue german has strick order rules, ie Time - manner - place. So it moved the place (online) to the end.

 

Pretty smart I used to use babelfish but I am switching to google now!!!

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english - german - french - english

Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.

It followed her to school one day which was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.

 

And so the teacher turned it out, but still it lingered near,

And waited patiently about, till Mary did appear.

Why does the lamb love Mary so the eager children cry.

Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know the teacher did reply.

 

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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school one day and Who was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play, To see a lamb at school.

 

And if the teacher is but remained in the neighborhood,

And waited patiently and Mary appears.

Why does the lamb love Mary was that? the eager children cry.

Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know. the teacher had not responded.

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