First in Translation
www.babelfish.altavista.com
Babel Fish was the Web's first Internet translation service. The site has the capability to translate words, phrases, or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Russian. The site is powered by www.altavista.com. Other notable offerings in the AltaVista portfolio include the first-ever multilingual search capability on the Internet and the first search technology to support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
Text that Makes Sense
www.lsaweb.com/translatext.php
From the very simple to the especially complex, lsaweb offers meticulous and true translations of documents, manuals, blueprints, signage, print work, labels, Web sites, e-mail, forms, and designs. The site employs native-speaking professionals with subject-specific expertise. To ensure that brochures and other materials are produced in a timely fashion, graphics and desktop publishing support services are offered to clients as well. For live, on-site translations, the site also provides a booking service for planners in need of simultaneous and consecutive interpreters in nearly any language, anywhere in the United States and abroad.
In Other Words
www.itools.com/lang#trans
Not all translation involves another language. itools features a comprehensive collection of dictionaries that make it possible to learn the meaning of any word, its correct spelling, how to pronounce it, and where it originated. Some of the dictionaries available include a terminology tome that offers explanations of any technical or industry-specific term; English thesauruses that include antonyms and synonyms of any word; and, of course, a word translator that translates any word to and from Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.