Google Language Tools – Language Translation
Language translation is very much required when you need to use some information in other language or you need to communicate in other language. It is very useful for people who want to travel, do business with people of other languages and communicate.
Take an example of website who sells some goods and take orders online. If this company can take orders for multiple countries, it will be good to have product details in different languages on its website. It will make interaction with its website easy for people from different countries and different languages.
Google provides some very good tools for translation. Visit http://translate.google.com and try some general purpose language tools.
1. Translation of Text
2. Translation of a web page
3. Translated search
4. Dictionary (French -> English)
5. Google Translate widget for your website.
You can use these tools
1. to Translate English to French
2. to Translate English to German
3. to Translate English to Italian
and vice versa, but exactly who many pairs are supported by Google?
What languages can be translated?
Currently, Google offers translations between the following languages:
* Arabic
* Bulgarian
* Chinese (Simplified)
* Chinese (Traditional)
* Croatian
* Czech
* Danish
* Dutch
* Finnish
* French
* German
* Greek
* Hindi
* Italian
* Korean
* Japanese
* Norwegian
* Polish
* Romanian
* Russian
* Spanish
* Swedish
* Portuguese
I am not very sure of the quality of translation but what i observed is if you are using less pronouns in your sentences, Google does more exact translation.
Google also provide Ajax API for Language translation, I will do another post for that.
Happy Translation!
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Hello Jitendra, Thanks for you interest in this post and for your time spent on it.
As I said in post that I am not very sure how exact Google does the translation for the website, but I can see on website given by you that it is well tried.
I think Flash is already compiled so translation will be able to change that but I am not sure why link stopped working after translation, probably because it is using some variable which is getting disturbed because of translation.
Google translator is not that good. I had funny results when translating a japanese language. It was actually a manga series.
I agree that you must exercise caution when it comes to online translation. That’s not to criticise online tools, if all you need is the gist of the meaning, they’re great. But no-one can argue that they’re 100% accurate and in business, there can’t be any miscommunication. An online translator will not be able to notice subtleties in language and if it’s important that they’re picked up on, you have to use a professional translation company.
Hello Sir,
Please visit the website http://www.themagnus.co.in and then select any language after then when click on flash object the text written “Click to learn more” it will not able to go that page, but without translating the language it will able to go on that page.
Also in inner pages I’ve used menu js file for website navigation in that case also when we view page in other language and when we click on top navigation menu it will show page in english lang. only and when u click on bottom menu it will show the language which you selected.
Thanking you,
Jitu.