Links: Translation

Most of the sites listed on this page provide free online translation of text and/or webpages between a number of different languages.

Name translations and transliterations | Free translation | Multilingual translators | Bilingual translators | Find a translator | Translation-related articles | Translation blogs | Electronic dictionaries and translators

Freelance translators and translation jobs


Name translations and transliterations

These are websites offering translation and/or transliteration of names, words and phrases in a variety of languages and writing systems.

Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
http://www.tattoos-by-design.co.uk

Tibetan
http://www.inkessential.com
http://www.tibetan-calligraphy.com
http://www.learntibetan.net

Elvish / Tengwar
Translations into Elvish (Quenya/Sindarin) and transliterations into Tengwar
http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html
http://forums.theonering.com/viewforum.php?f=8
http://tengwarscribe.com

Information about Tengwar | More links for Tolkien's alphabets and languages

Chinese
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
http://www.zhongwen.com/qianming.htm
http://www.transname.com
http://www.char4u.com
http://www.asianbrushart.com
http://www.cafepress.com/chinesenames/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/names
http://www.chinesenames.org

Information about Mandarin | Mandarin phrases | More Mandarin links | Mandarin learning materials

Japanese
http://www.dsfy.com/
http://japanese.about.com/bl50kanji.htm

Information about Japanese | Japanese phrases | More Japanese links | Japanese learning materials

Mongolian (traditional script)
http://www.linguamongolia.com/tran1.html

Irish & Scottish Gaelic
http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/

Russian
http://www.russian-translation-pros.com/free-russian-translation-service.html

Information about Russian | Russian phrases | More Russian links | Russian learning materials

Amharic
http://www.amhariconline.com/shop.html

Ancient Greek
http://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php/board,14.0.html

Latin
http://latinforum.org

Arabic - free translation of names and phrases into Arabic
http://arabic.speak7.com/learn_arabic.htm

Information about Arabic | Arabic phrases | More Arabic links | Arabic learning materials

Tagalog/Baybayin
http://www.eaglescorner.com/baybayin/baybayin.html

Please note: some sites have a policy of not providing translations intended for tattoos.

Online dictionaries | Electronic dictionaries and translators


Free translation

Websites where you can obtain free or low-cost translations.

FREELANG - Human Translation (free translation of short, non-commercial texts)
http://www.freelang.net/translation/

Free Translation Forums
http://help.berberber.com/free-translation-forums/
http://www.oasisllc.com/transtrad/forum.htm

lingue professional translations

WikiTranslation- Free human translation service based on the wiki idea
http://wikitranslation.org

myGengo - Simple, low-cost human translation
http://mygengo.com


Multilingual translators

SYSTRAN
Text and webpage translation between English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
http://www.systransoft.com

Please note

Online translation sites enable you to understand the gist of a piece of foreign text or website, but are not entirely accurate or reliable and are no substitute for a human translator. For an illustration of this, see:

http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
http://funnytranslator.com/translation/

FreeTranslation

Text and webpage translation between English and Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese
http://www.freetranslation.com

Babel Fish Translation

Text and webpage translation between English and Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish or Russian
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

Linguosoft

Translation software, handheld translators and other translation products
http://www.ectaco-store.com

Worldlingo

Webpage translation between English and Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian or Spanish: http://www.worldlingo.com/en/websites/url_translator.html

Behnevis

Text translation between Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
http://www.behnevis.com/translate.html

Translendium Translator

Text and webpage translation between Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian, German and Russian: http://www.translendium.com

Traductor automàtic

Text and webpage translation between Catalan, English, French and Spanish
http://traductor.gencat.net/index_ca.jsp

Reverso

text and webpage translation between English, French, German and Spanish
http://www.reverso.net

LingvoSoft Suite 2008 - translation software for many languages for Windows and Pocket PC

PROMT's Online translator

Text, webpage and email translation between Russian and English, French, German, Spanish and Italian: http://www.translate.ru/eng/erre.asp

T-Sail

Webpage translation between between English and French, German, Japanese, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese or Korean
http://www.t-mail.com/cgi-bin/tsail

Applied language solutions

Free online text and webpage translation between English and Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/free_translation.shtml

Cucumis

Free online translation service
http://www.cucumis.org

Free Website Localization

A collaborative translation project to help webmasters get free multilingual versions of their web sites: http://www.freelocalization.com

Language Dynamics

Free online translation between Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: http://www.langdy.com/dacc_g.htm

Applied Language

Free online translation between Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/free_translation.shtml

Local Translation

Free online translation between English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish
http://www.localtranslation.com

AsiaTranslate

Free online translation between many languages from Arikaans to Yiddish
http://www.asiatranslate.net/free-translation.html

Apex translations

Document and website translation services in more than 120 languages
http://www.apex-translations.com

Global Translations

Free Online translation between Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian: http://www.gts-translation.com/freetranslation.asp

Polly Glotto

Free online translator between Chinese, English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish that speaks the translations using text-to-speech technology: http://www.pollyglotto.com

lingue professional translations

Překladač.net

Online translation between many languages (site in Czech)
http://prekladac.net

TranslationBooth

Free online translation between many differnt languages
http://www.translationbooth.com/

YoFast Word Translations

Free online translations between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: http://www.yofast.org

Free Translation Online

Brings free translators from Google, AltaVista together on one page
http://translation-services.co.uk/free-translation-online.html

Global Voices

Free online tranlsation between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian
http://globalvoices.co.uk/free_translation_tool_new2.php

Bubbles Translation

Text and webpage translation between a number of languages, including English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian
http://www.bubblestrans.com/english/translator.html

Apertium

Free, open-source translation between English, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, Arranese, French, Esperanto, Romanian, Basque, Welsh, Breton, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish: http://www.apertium.org

tolingo

Free translation betweeen many languages, from Albanian to Vietnamese
http://www.tolingo.com/pages/free/text_translation.php
http://www.tolingo.com/pages/free/website_translation.php

Voila traduction

Traduction des textes et pages web entre français, anglais, allemand, espagnol et russe
http://tr.voila.fr

AllInOneTranslator

Free Online Text Translator for English, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and French: http://www.allinonetranslator.com

VOX Translations

Free online translation from and into 53 languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, German, and French: http://www.voxtranslations.com/spanish_translation.html

Prestige Network free resources (Multilingual Appointment Card and Language ID Card)
http://www.prestigenetwork.co.uk/translation/freerscr/index.htm

HowToSay

Multilingual translator that allows you to rate translations and suggest better ones
http://howtosay.org

Quick Lingo

Free online translation between many languages from Afrikaans to Vietnamese
http://www.quicklingo.com/en/free-translation

How To Translate PDF Files to Different Languages for free
http://www.pdfconverter.com/resources/blog/how-to-translate-pdf-files-to-different-languages-free

Translation Directory

One of the most trusted directories of translation related sites in Internet. Translation Trusted Directory is a high quality human edited directory of the best web resources cataloged in an intuitive and easy way to find: http://translation.trusted-directory.com

English 'Dialect' Translators
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk (Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie, etc.)
http://www.stokeferry.com/visitor/broadnorfolk (Board Norfolk)
http://www.geordie.org.uk (Geordie)
http://www.topfun.co.uk/babelsheep (Cumbrian)
http://www.tuco.de/home/jschef.htm (Swedish Chef)
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.htm (Pirate)
http://www.aussietranslator.com/convert.php (Aussie)
http://www.ghettotranslator.com/convert.php (Ghetto)
http://www.shortbus.net/dialect.html (Valley Girl, Jive, Jethro, etc.)
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect (Redneck, Elmer Fudd, Pig Latin, etc.)

Morningside Translations

Leading translation services company based in NY. We specialize in certified legal translation, patent translation, and medical translation. We provide professional document translation and interpretation services in 100+ languages, 24/7, via a global network of over 2,000 certified translators. A free quote is available in less than an hour.

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Bilingual translators

Arabic - English
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb
http://www.almisbar.com/salam_trans.html

Chinese - English
http://www.readworld.com/tran

TransName.com - have your name or other words or phrases translated into Chinese
http://www.transname.com

English <> Indonesian
http://www.toggletext.com

Polish - English
http://www.poltran.com

Persian (Farsi) - English
http://www.parstranslator.com

English - Spanish
http://www.lingo24.com/contextrans-spanish-english-translation-service.html
http://www.lingo24.com/contextrans-english-spanish-translation-service.html
http://www.english-spanish-translations.com/free-translation/translate-phrase.htm
http://www.spanishdict.com

Translation Software, Dictionary, Spellchecker,...

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Find a translator

Translator forums and databases of translators
http://www.proz.com
http://www.translatorsbase.com
http://www.babelport.com
http://www.translatorscenter.com
http://www.translatorpub.com
http://www.proshunters.com

Translators Town - Translation Jobs & Freelance Translators
http://www.translatorstown.com

FreelancerSupport - lists translation jobs and has other resoures for translators
http://www.freelancersupport.com

Online directory for translators and other language professionals
http://www.oratz.net

lingue professional translations

Translation School: Worldwide translation schools directory
http://www.translationschools.org

Carrie Booth - French to English translation services
http://www.thetranslationbooth.co.uk

English-German translation help service
http://english-german-translation.info/translation-help-we-help-out-translators-in-emergencies/

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Translation-related articles

Articles about translation, typesetting and related topics
http://www.wintranslation.com/article_centre.html

Articles about translation, language, etc.
http://patenttranslators.com/articles.htm

Articles about translating, interpreting and web globalization
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/translation/articles.html

Articles about translation, localisation and language learning
http://www.lexicool.com/articles.asp

Translation Journal - A Publication for Translators by Translators about Translators and Translation: http://www.accurapid.com/journal/

Machine translation
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/machtr.html

Better Languages Translation News
http://www.betterlanguages.com/news/

Translation White Papers
http://www.wintranslation.com/translation-white-papers/

Translation zilla - compare your language skills with your friends
http://translationzilla.com/game.aspx

Translation Industry Articles by SureLanguages
http://www.sure-languages.com/en/articles/

Translation and language-related articles on Omniglot

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Blogs and translation and interpreting

http://www.becomeatranslator.com
http://www.nakedtranslations.com/en/blog.php
http://translationpost.com
http://brave-new-words.blogspot.com
http://coglanglab.blogspot.com
http://blog.web-translations.com
http://translation-blog.trustedtranslations.com
http://blog.worldlanguagecommunications.com
http://blog.multiling.com
http://transpanish.biz/translation_blog/
http://www.morningtrans.com/category/blog

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