Online Translation

Google Translate is a fast translator for translating words, texts and entire websites from and to several languages. Use their dictionary to find synonyms or meaning of words in another language. The last excellent tool 'Search Results', enables you to find relevant sites in the Google search results of another language (ie: Google Spanish search results), while typing search queries in your own language. Select your own language and the language in which you want to find the result. After submitting the query you will find two columns of search results: one translated version of the results in your language and one column with the original results in the language you wanted to search in. Since this Google translator is fast, it's especially recommended for low-bandwidth / dial-up users.

With Oddcast Text-to-Speech Translator you can translate words and sentences in 11 different languages. The translator can also read the translated text to you out loud.

Worldlingo Online Translator offers free online translation of words, sentences and websites. They translate to / from the following languages: English, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Spanish.

Free Translation translates your text for free from English to the following languages: Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, Russian, Norwegian, simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. They translate to English from the following languages: Spanish, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Portugese and Russian. They also offer to translate complete websites to and from English to all languges mentioned above except Chinese, Japanese and Russian.

This website is named after the greatest of all students of foreign languages, Giuseppe Caspar Cardinal Mezzofanti. Although specific estimates vary, historians generally agree that Cardinal Mezzofanti spoke around 38 languages and 50 dialects fluently, and spoke many other languages with less fluency.

Translate up to 150 words or translate a web page with Altavista Babel Fish. Language pairs supported:

^{English from / to Chinese (trad/simp)
English from / to Dutch
English from / to French
English from / to German
English from / to Greek
English from / to Italian
English from / to Japanese
English from / to Korean
English from / to Portuguese
English from / to Russian
English from / to Spanish
French from / to Dutch
French from / to German
French from / to Greek
French from / to Italian
French from / to Portuguese
French from / to Spanish}

Nice Translator is a good name for this... nice online translator! First select the languages and next start typing text. The words you are typing will be translated on-the-fly to all languages you selected.

An online translator to translate words, texts and websites. You can also search for synonyms and meanings of words in multiple languages to identify an appropriate translation for a word or concept. 

The Microsoft/Bing Translator enables you to translate text and websites to more than 20 languages. To translate websites, just type the URL in the translation box, select the languages and hit the 'Translate' button. You will a split screen webpage wit both the orginal and translated version of the URL you submitted. Also, check out the Tools page and the Microsoft Translator Widget page.

Mijn Woordenboek (My Dictionary) offers various language tools on one page. You can use the following tools: translation dictionary (words / text), find synonyms, spelling checker and a tool to conjugate verbs in different langauges.

Stars21 is a useful website if you are looking for dictionaries, search engines and translators. Here you will find many free dictionaries and translators sorted by country/continent and integrated in one page.

Download Ergane (product of Majstro), a freeware multilingual translation dictionary for Windows.

Find online dictionairies and language related links on this site. A lot of languages supported for translating words online.

Translate words in more than 30 languages with this excellent free online translation dictionary from Majstro.

JLearnit is a Java application developed by Anthony Goubard. JLearnIt is a multilingual online dictionary that contains 15 languages: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Russian, Latin and Czech. You can also use it as word by word translator. If you are travelling you can also download it for your PDA (palm or pocket pc) and your mobile phone with Java.

Reference.com offers a wide range of language tools. Use the dictionary to find out what words in English mean, use their thesaurus to find related words or translate text with their online translator. 

With the translation tool from Woordenboek.eu you can easily translate a Dutch or English word to many languages.

WikIdioms is a multilingual dictionary of idioms. The dictionary is created by the online community of native speakers of different languages. Their vision is to create a dynamic online reference helping language enthusiasts and professionals to make the speech more colorful by actively employing idioms in non-native languages.

This is definitely a site to visit if you're looking for free translation of text or your webpage. This site contains a lot of links to free translation sites all over the world.

On this site you can learn more English synonyms and expand your vocabulary. Everytime you answer correctly you automatically donate 10 grains of rice to the World Food Program. Fill up the bowl! :)

BBC Languages is a language portal where you can learn foreign languages online. Click on the language course of your choice and learn about grammar, use a dictionary and test your skills with language games. All language courses are supported with audio and video materials and you can get a certificate at the end of the course.

101 Languages helps people to better understand the different languages in the world. Here you will find common travel phrases from English to one of the 35 supported languages. You can also learn how pronounce vowels and consonants.

Get The Skill provides links to free online language courses.

The Last Pages, created by Arthur de Wolf, is a travel phrase book in six languages with more than 340 phrases per language combination divided over 13 categories, like: travel, money, lodging, shopping and numbers. Available languages are: English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.

Here you will find a nice collection of phrases in various languages which you can use during travels. Main topics are: daily contact, travel, restaurant, doctor, environment, bank and postal office, problems & emergency, holidays, shopping and more.

Wikipedia offers a lot of background information on languages. On this page you can select lists of languages by theme (by writing system, by name, etc.).

Omniglot provides information on most alphabets and other writing systems currently in use, as well as information on ancient writing systems.