TRANSLATION

[essexgirls]

Heya..
Does anyone know any websites that work.. that translate english to portugese and then vise versa! The ones we have tryed dont really work!
Thanks x

BACK IN CAVOEIRO IN 4 DAYS =]

[laserblazer]

http://babelfish.altavista.com/ is the one I use.

[essexgirls]

jj

[laserblazer]

Without wishing to be rude, you are writing in Essexgirl idiom and expecting the babelfish to understand and translate it. Either really simplify the English text or hope that one of our bilingual experts will help you out.

It struggles with incorrect spelling as well

[Al Garb]

Babel Fish

Type "Babel Fish is an excellent device for translating English into Portuguese and vice versa"

Translate to Portuguese and get "O peixe de Babel é um dispositivo excelente para traduzir o inglês no versa portuguese e vice"

Paste the Portuguese text and ask it to translate back to English and get

"The fish of Babel is an excellent device to translate the English in it turns portuguese and vice"

[laserblazer]

The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

Douglas Adams THHGTTG

[essexgirls]

That example you gave from bable fish or watever the website woz.. would that make any sence 2 a portugise person then cos it dnt 2 me lol

[laserblazer]

That example you gave from bable fish or watever the website woz.. would that make any sence 2 a portugise person then cos it dnt 2 me lol

I think that's the point. It will take a too literal meaning. Your original post has been edited out so I can't remember what you were trying to translate but try something simple like "Is this your personal phone number or is it your work number. This comes out as É este seu número de telefone pessoal ou é ele seu número do trabalho which is probably very poor grammatically but should make sense.

[essexgirls]

okay thankyou!. i dont think i can trust using it though, incase it really doesnt make sense at all. and it takes to long to try and learn another launguage so we may just be stuffed!

[Ellie]

Hi girls and welcome to CVO.com

Try this one..I find it very quick & easy to use:

http://www.systransoft.com/

[dennisg]

Ellie, I have just tried Sysanstroft from your link, with a pack of Portuguese cold remedy tablets, and while it translates "dores de garganta" as "throat pains", it gives the translation of "rouquidao" as "rouquidao", whereas I have found from a dictionary that it means "hoarse". It translates "anginas" as "anginas" although I don't think these tablets are for heart complaints.
Mind you, I didn't have any better luck with babelfish!
Perhaps the answer is a better Portuguese/English dictionary.

[Ellie]

You are right Dennis, neither Babel or Systran are that reliable and a good dictionary is much better to use..
I keep my little one with me all the time

[essexgirls]

Well thanks anyway for all your ideas and that, i think ill just have to get my self a dictionary or something! See how that goes x

[dennisg]

Ellie, I keep my little one with me all the time, too.

[Ellie]

Ellie, I keep my little one with me all the time, too.

Im sure you do Dennis..its the only way to keep an eye on it