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Default 05-13-2008, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jack55 View Post
So this has a Spanish version? I have new neighbors. They're real nice but they don't know any English. So this could be helpful if I need to communicate with them.
It utilizes all the languages available by the services (think like a unit converter - you pick the 'from' and 'to'), which include Spanish amongst many others.

If you don't know any Spanish, just be careful - many online translation services sort of get it right, but they sort of get it wrong at the same time. You have to word your English very clearly to be translated; avoid slang, conjunctions, and more advanced patterns of speech - think simple and direct without ambiguous terms and it will translate better with these services.

Try and translate "cowbell" from English to Spanish - 2/3rds of online translation dictionaries will fail. Now translate "cencerro" to English, and 100% of them spit back "cowbell" correctly.
   
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