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Step 1
Start by going to the Google translation tool at http://translate.google.com/ (see Resources, below, for a clickable link).
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Step 2
TO TRANSLATE TEXT
Say you want to learn how to write “thank you” in Italian. To do that, in the “Original text” box, type in the words "thank you" (without the quotes). -
Step 3
Beneath the text box, click on the first button to pick the language you used, in this case, English. Click the second button to pick the language to which you want the text translated – Italian. Lastly, click the translate button and on the right side of the screen, you will see the translation, “grazie.”
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Step 4
TO TRANSLATE A WEB PAGE
In the “Translate a Web Page” section, enter the URL for the website that you want to translate. You can translate from English to another language, or translate from another language to English. In this example, we will translate the Chinese AOL website (http://chinese.aol.com/) to English by copying the URL from the Chinese AOL website and pasting it into the box on the Google translate page. (Or, you could type the URL into the box.) -
Step 5
Click the button to pick Chinese from the list as the source language; click the second button to pick English as the language you want to read; and then click the translate button.
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Step 6
After a few seconds, the website will appear in English. At left, you can see an excerpt from the Chinese website after it was translated to English.
Comments
QueenofMisc said
on 12/20/2008 Great info!
vdeneen said
on 8/26/2008 Great to know... thanks!