Translation tools?

cornbb

In lieu of taking lessons etc to improve my abysmal French, can anyone recommend software or websites to quickly translate words and phrases from English to French and vice-versa? I've been using Babelfish and its not so reliable. Or is that the standard I should expect from all tools?

Berci beaucoup

G_R

Google Translator/Goole Traduction

C'est tres bien!

Aller a http://translate.google.com ou http://translate.google.fr

cornbb

Merci, je vais essayer :pac:

CantGetNoSleep

Use an online dictionary such as wordreference.com if it's only a word you want to translate, will give you more choices than a translator

Vero

http://www.leo.org
should do the job

elmolesto

dannym08 wrote: »

Google Translator/Goole Traduction

C'est tres bien!

Aller a http://translate.google.com ou http://translate.google.fr

I wouldnt rely much on these tools.

They are quite inaccurate.

CantGetNoSleep

Vero wrote: »

http://www.leo.org
should do the job

This is the French board you clown

Vero

uh, sorry, got confused with the languages...I used it to translate from english to german and then to french...then it works :rolleyes:

ConfusedFella

woah... i'm sorry but i have to disagree with anyone who recommended any site apart from wordreference.com.

the forum is incredible, and the dictionary is really in-depth too.

babelfish/googletranslate + french = DISASTER.

wordreference is all you'll ever need.