Translation Sites
Free Online Translation
These sites perform automated translation of short amounts of text and are helpful for understanding foreign market websites or replies from foreign magazine editors written in their language. Warning: These sites don’t even come close to providing perfect translations, so do NOT try to translate your stories or even your cover letters! If you need to be convinced of how bad an idea that is, try translating their versions back into English, and you'll see how mangled it can be. Not the best way to make a first impression.
Google translation page – Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Translation Guide – Translates into or from English for a huge range of languages: Arabic, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish or Welsh.
DeepL – Another good translation site, which incorporates a language detect feature. A large number of languages are handled, including: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.
Lexicool Online Translation – Ever so many free online translation engines accumulated into one page. Engines for Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, as well as links to online translation resources for Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Armenian, Slovene, Catalan, Indonesian, Esperanto, Farsi, Bulgarian, Hungarian.
Dictionary.com Translation site – another online translation engine
Japanese Translation Sites
Jeffrey's Japanese-English Dictionary – Excellent resource for Japanese translations, including Kanji characters Stock Kanji – Kanji calligraphy site providing translation feature from English into Japanese and Kanji
Language Identifiers
Not sure what language you're trying to translate? Try one of these sites. Just enter the text of the unknown language and it will give you its best guess.
Foreign Dictionaries
Yourdictionary.com – Translation dictionaries for more than 280 languages. Plus links to several translation engines and sites for large text passages.
Other Resources
LexiCool – primarily a directory of "all" the online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. It is a resource intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.
