Review of google translate portuguese to english::How to Translate Spanish to English
With the World Wide Web being so much a part of our everyday life, and the Internet being such a big "thing" in so many countries, I sometimes find it amazing that more translation issues don't arise. Sure, most of the websites I visit every day are in English, but sometimes I'm amazed that more websites I want to visit aren't in a different language. I suppose it helps that English has sort of become the de facto language for the Web, but in spite of that, I still do run across websites I wish I could read, but are written in another language. For times such as those, numerous online utilities exist, so that all I need to do is plug in the address of the website, tell the utility my native language and that of the web page, and automated software spits out a translated version of the site. Sure, the translation isn't always perfect, and sometimes it's downright funny, but most of the time it's good enough. There are, of course, translation services for needs not related to websites, but those almost always involve going to a web browser, entering in the address of the translation service, then pasting in the text you want translated and going through the steps of (again), entering in the original and desired languages. I've used these, and they seem to be just as good as the website translation services, but (as I often feel when I find myself going to a web browser to use a web application), I sometimes wish I could accomplish the same, right from my desktop. A program for Mac exists, called Easy Translator, that attempts to solve just that problem for me. It's shareware (costing around forty dollars or so), but it works well, is incredibly easy to use, and gives just as good translations as you'd expect. This is nothing you'd want to use if needing professional results, but if you need a decent translation just to get the rough meaning, then Easy Translator may be for you. To use Easy Translator, simply start it up. You'll see two large text entry fields. One (the top one) is for you to paste or type the text you want translated. The bottom field is where the translated text will appear. Below the bottom field is a popup menu. Simply hit that, and up pops a list of the 36 different translations Easy Translator is able to do. English is most represented in the list, as you might expect. Easy Translator is able to translate English into Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, and from all those languages back to English. If you speak other languages (with the exception of French), you'll likely only be able to translate your language into English, and maybe to another language. This is definitely an Anglo-centric application. Be that as it may, it certainly works well enough, at least according to my own short tests. I took one of my articles, pasted it into the top section, and had Easy Translator translate it into Spanish. Based on the small amount of high school Spanish still floating around in my brain, the article would actually be understandable, if filled with awkward phrases and likely some sections where techno-babble didn't quite translate as intended. As stated earlier, Easy Translate is shareware, and sells for $39.95, which in my mind is an awful lot, considering that all the features it offers are available, for free, on websites such as Google and Alta Vista. Sure, it works, and I absolutely like the ability to accomplish all my translation needs right from my desktop, but forty bucks is just a bit too steep for my wallet. Your mileage may vary. |
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