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