When I was in school I took three years of Spanish and one year of German. I only know about five words of each now. I have always admired people who can speak more than one language. I have been very pleased to learn that there are phone aps and web sites that will now translate English into another language or visa-versa.
Since my next writing project: Hostage Heart will included Spanish, I will find this info useful. And one of the virtues is that the translation will provide proper grammar syntax and male/female prefixes and affixes. I do not know how these translators handle area dialects, but maybe that will not be important if it’s just written text.
I thought I’d provide a list of some that I found, for your reading pleasure.
http://translate.google.com/
http://www.freetranslation.com/
http://translate.reference.com/
http://www.translation.langenberg.com/
http://translation2.paralink.com/
http://www.bing.com/translator
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
Apps:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/travel/languagetranslator.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/translate-text-mylanguage/id306752957?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en
http://www.jibbigo.com/website/
http://www.suntimes.com/business/4773863-420/language-translation-apps-for-smartphones-make-traveling-lighter.html
if you have used any of these and want to share with others the pros and cons of it, please feel free to share your feelings in the comment section of this blog. Thanks
