Dear folks,

Thank you for being supportive of our blog with you comments and readership. Without your comments, it would make us wonder whether anyone ever reads anything on this site at all!!

Back to translation, have you ever had the experience of stumbling upon a word and need a quick translation to be done?

There are a few websites that can do the trick, though not always accurate. But for the one or two word kind of translation, it should not be a problem.

• http://translate.google.com.sg/translate_t#
• http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
• http://www.stars21.com/
• http://www.freetranslation.com/
• http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

My favourite these days is Google. It is pretty accurate, and there is a possibility of us giving suggestions to the translation if we feel it is not good enough. But if you were to translate sentences, then you will need to find someone who knows that language to proofread it. As it is a direct translation, the structure of the language is messy and the grammer may not be right.

You can have fun with these free online tools, and may even conjure up a letter to your friend in a foreign language. However, the other party may never know what you were trying to say at all!