Easy Website Translation

[jmhardy]

I posted this as a response to another question further down in the forum, but wanted to post it here for others to benefit from who may not read through that particular discussion.

Is anyone aware of Google’s tools for auto translating Spanish to English? I’ve found them invaluable because now I can go to websites like ICE’s, etc. and actually be able to make some sense of their sites. Not a replacement for actually learning the language if you’re going to live down there, but certainly a nice stop-gap, and all FREE.

Here’s what you have to do to get it: go to toolbar.google.com and download and install the toolbar itself.

Once the toolbar is loaded, go here: http://google.com/translate_buttons?hl=en

You’ll see a bunch of buttons for different translations. Drag the Spanish to English button onto your browser bookmarks area.

Now, alongside your other bookmarks you have a button that says Spanish to English. If you go to a Spanish Language website and click on it, viola, it’s translated. It’s not perfect, and remember it is a literal translation so grammar’s going to be off, but you get a pretty good idea of what the site is about by using it.

[artedwards]

I have installed the tool bar and the translator button. When someone goes the the button page they can right click on the Spanish to English button and then click on “add to favorites” on the drop down menu then open the links folder and add. Just what I did. Works great!
Thanks for the tip.
Art Edwards

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