How to Use Google Translate
You've probably encountered the frustration of finding just the right website in a search only to discover it's not in a language you can understand. Or maybe you want to make your own website available in other languages. Perhaps you just simply just need to know how to say a word or phrase in a different language. Google Translate is a really simple, one-stop way to solve these problems. It has a number of tools you can use to translate web pages and text into many different foreign languages.
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Instructions
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Log in to your Gmail or Google account, or create a new one if necessary. Navigate to the top of the page and click on the "More" link. Choose "Even More" from the drop-down menu and click on Google Translate from the new page that appears.
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Use Google Translate to make sense of foreign text or to translate your own text into another language. The default home page for Translate is a text translation box. Enter your text into the box, either by typing it or pasting from a word processing program and choose the correct languages from the drop-down menus below the box. The first drop down is the language your test is already in, while the second is for the language into which you would like to translate.
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Translate entire web pages. Simply type in the web address in the bar provided on the Google Translate home page (making sure to include http://) and choose the languages from the drop-down menus.
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Search for web pages in something other than your native language. Click on the "Translated Search" tab and enter in in your search terms. Select your native language and the desired search language and hit "Translate and Search."
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Use Google Translate as a foreign language dictionary. Click the "Dictionary" tab and type in the word you want translate or learn the meaning of. Then, use the pull down menu to choose your translation terms. Fort example if you wanted to know what the Spanish word "perro" means in English, type in "perro" and choose "Spanish >> English." Google will return the word and related phrases in English.
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Add a gadget to your web page allowing other people to translate your page into the language of their choice. Click on the "Tools" tab, select the language in which your web page is written and then choose the language you want available for your readers. You may choose as many gadgets and languages as you like--Google Translate will provide you with the HTML code to add to your page.
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Tips & Warnings
If you want to able to translate web pages as you view them, Google Translate also offers buttons to add to your toolbar. Simply drag the button from the "Tools" page to the browser toolbar and use when you want to translate a web page.
