ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL)

TRANSLATION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

• http://translation.paralink.com/ for translations from English to Spanish, German, French, Russian, and Portuguese. The beauty of this site: it translates it, and then back again into English so that you know how far off the mark the translation might be.
• http://imtranslator.net/ : similar to translation.paralink in that it does the same languages and also back translates
• www.allwords.com This site sends you to multiple translation sites for over 20 language groups.
• www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html for free language translations to several European languages, as well as Korean and Chinese
• www.google.com go to “language tools” for free translations in several languages
• www.freetranslation.com for more high-quality translations, but in just a few, primarily romance, languages.
• www.systransoft.com Translates English to 13 other languages.
• www.ilovelanguages.com lots of information and links about language
• www.yourdictionary.com links to dictionaries in over 280 languages, many online
• http://babelfish.altavista.com/ for moderately acceptable translations in several languages
• www.consumer.att.com/relay/nj/foreignlanguag.html AT&T’s voice translation service. Fee-based
• www.transact.com/default.cfm?level=1,3,31 Specializes in school translations. Fee-based