Recently I changed from the Firefox web browser to the Google Chrome browser, and discovered by accident one of its very useful features: built- in translation. It detects a web page that is not in your preferred languages and can automatically translate it for you. Here's a link for more information. http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173424 The upside: It's free and works well.
The downside: It uses machine translation, so some contexts are not understood well, and type that is part of a graphic (it looks like type but is actually a jpeg, etc.) are not translated. For those of us who visit European web sites as we plan our trips, it's a very useful tool.
Posted by
New Paltz, NY
9103 posts
Neat feature, but you don't have to install Chrome to use it. You can go direct to the Google Translate site, paste-in the URL and get the translation that way: http://translate.google.com I prefer Firefox as it's easier to customize with add-ons.
Posted by
Vancouver
10 posts
google translate is a life saver but I learnt to translate from English to ( say) French but then also put their translation back in and translate it back to English just to make sure it says what I actually want it to say . Some of Googles translations have been a little out , with some funny results