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Elsie Aug 7th, 2001 03:46 PM
Language translator
 
Can anyone help me to find a Web site that provides useful travel sentences in several languages. <BR>Thank you

Easy Talker Aug 7th, 2001 03:54 PM
www.Translation.Langenberg.Com <BR>Try this.

virginia Aug 7th, 2001 04:03 PM
http://officeupdate.lhsl.com/ <BR>from Microsoft if that is what you are using.

Wendy Aug 7th, 2001 04:32 PM
Elsie, <BR> <BR>Parlo.com provides travel Italian, French, and Spanish. There are typically twelve lessons, all of which have an audio component, so that you can hear how the words should sound. I recently signed on for the travel Italian course ($39.00) and found it extremely helpful. Each lesson gives real life situations ( at the airport, the hotel, the bank, the grocery store) as well as information on different cultural aspects and areas of the country being studied. Great stuff! GOod luck!

JOdy Aug 7th, 2001 05:03 PM
Just asked this earlier today. Search undr LOST LANGUAGE WEBSITE. the one I remeber is www.traclang.com but here was another that was very good for limited phrases.

JOdy Aug 7th, 2001 05:05 PM
Sorry its www.travlang.com

Marcia Aug 7th, 2001 06:50 PM
I found www.bigairparagliding.com to be extremely useful. Not only can you translate from English into any language you want, there's also a metric converter, etc. (click on tools in the left hand corner of the website)

Randy Aug 7th, 2001 08:54 PM
Take a look at this web site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/index.shtml <BR>The BBC On Line web site had 5 or 6 languages to choose from and has video, audio and phrases. <BR> <BR>Also: www.altavista.com This search engine has a free transulation service.

harzer Aug 8th, 2001 12:12 AM
Hi Elsie! <BR> <BR>I just tried the five translation services listed under the recommended site &lt;www.Translation.Langenberg.com&gt;. Alta Vista was one of them. <BR> <BR>I asked each of them to translate this sentence into German: <BR> <BR>'Which country do you find yourself instantly attracted to?' This sentence is not what a native speaker would call difficult or complicated. But every translation came up as sheer gobbledygook. <BR> <BR>I'm afraid the dream of machine translation is a long way off yet. Maybe you can get single word equivalents, but a sentence is beyond them. <BR> <BR>Alta Vista by the way has been a joke among professional translators for years. <BR> <BR>Good luck, <BR>Harzer


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