Google Translate

[O4aTimtam]

I may be preaching to the converted but I have just discovered Google Translate.  It allows you to translate sections of text (or whole webpages) from one language to another.  It can even determine which language it is translating from if you are unsure.   

Here is a link to the site http://translate.google.com/#en|en|

Farfallina has been posting some great recipes on the forum recently, referring to photos on her blog.  Every time I went to look at a photo I wondered what the rest of the page said.  Enter my new best friend Google Translate!

For example (using Farfallina’s blog) to translate a whole webpage, copy and paste the link eg http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.com/2009/12/portakal-aromal-cikolata-selalesi.html  into the “Translate” box on the Google Translate website and this is what you will get http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fthermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fportakal-aromal-cikolata-selalesi.html&sl=auto&tl=en .  This is a delicious looking chocolate orange pudding!!     You can also then continue browsing through the rest of the website and it will continue to be translated as you go.

This is all new to me, so hopefully I have explained it clearly enough for others who may wish to explore it further.  Just imagine all those TM recipes just waiting to be translated and posted?! 

PS  Firefox Add-on
I use Firefox and there is an Add-on  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14815/ .  Once installed you just paste the text or website link into the small search box to the right hand side of your navigator bar (the bit to the right of where you type in a website address) takes you straight to Google Translate.

[Thermomixer]

Thanks - that really does help make foreign recipes very accessible.

[farfallina]

Dear Timtam, thank you very much for taking so much interest in my modest blog. I really am flattered

Google translater is a good way to translate and improving. Of course it doesn't work 100%
When it fails you can always ask me for help with the translation. (This goes for also Turkish or Italian recipes from other websites)

[meganjane]

I've been using it for a while. I love to translate recipes from different countries.
Sometimes, you need to scratch your head a bit to understand them, because they're literal translations, but you get the gist of it.