Free online translation sites on the Web have made it possible for Web searchers to read documents and sites from all over the world, in any language. Have you found something online that you'd like to read, but don't know how to read the language it's presented in? Whether you need to translate something from English to French, Spanish to German, or Swahili to Latin, you'll be able to do it with my list of free online translation sites.
General Online Translation Sites
- Free Newspaper Translation. Translates websites, web pages, online texts, and online documents.
- Softissimo. Translate entire web pages.
- Babelfish by AltaVista. Excellent site that gives you lots of language translation options.
- Google Translator. Good, basic language translation with Google's technology behind it.
- Langenberg Language Translation. Translate text in a variety of languages.
- Dictionary.com. Good language translation tool that allows you to type in whole blocks of text.
- Machine Translation Engine. Translate in languages as diverse as Afrikaans and Welsh.
- Translation Wizard. Excellent site with a variety of languages available.
- AjaxTrans: Just start typing and your words will instantly be translated from and into a variety of different languages.
- POPjisyo: "OPjisyo is a web based pop-up dictionary for Japanese, Chinese, Korean and other languages."
- Binary Translator: Hey, binary is a language too! Converts text to binary and vice-versa.
Fun Online Translation Sites
- The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator: " This translator will take what you write in it and turn it into the manner a 12-year-old AOLer would write it."
- Lost in Translation. What happens when you run a sentence through too many language translators? Find out.
- Text to Speech: Pig Latin. Set this page to speak a sentence in Pig Latin by a man,woman or child.
- The Dialectizer. Instantly create parodies of websites in different fun dialects.
- The Shizzolator. Apply Snoopp Dogg's shizzolating technology to your web page and see what happens. (strong language)
- Elvish Language Translation. For Lord of the Rings fans.
- MrKlingon.org. Captain! There's Klingons on the port bow! Learn how to speak Klingon or at least understand it.
- Japanese Kanji and Caliigraphy Translation: "Japanese calligraphy, Japanese name translation, Japanese symbols and kanji name translation."
- Internet Slang Dictionary: "Confused by IM or chat room slang? Translate internet slang and acronyms."
