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Free
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Free Translation Links -
links to sites offering free translations. Some specialize in certain
languages,
thus the accuracy is improved http://www.word2word.com/free.html
Free Translation from FreeTranslation.com: Type something in English & have it translated
in a
foreign language http://www.freetranslation.com/
Free
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French Links from About.Com
- includes email your question section
French newsletter & chat & links
http://french.about.com/library/bl_newsletter.htm
French - Read daily news in French & use their French search engine
http://personal.lycos.de/personal/fr/
French
Search engine from Alta Vista
French
Search Engine from MSN http://www.msn.fr/homepage.asp
French Search
Engine - from Voila in France
http://voila.fr/
French
- Take a tour (in English, French or
Spanish) of my favorite "walled" city in France,
Carcasonne.
German Links from About.Com
Google.com
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Hebrew Links from About.Com
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The
Klingon Dictionary for Star Trek Lovers from Yourdictionary.com
Italian Links from About.Com
Ixquick
- search in any language for pictures,
text, or MP3 http://www.ixquick.com/
Japanese Links from About.Com
Latin Links from About.Com
Latino.com
- the heart & soul of Latino Internet
- read Spanish - Search their engine - get free Internet service http://latino.com/
Learn the history, culture, grammar & vocab of foreign languages
from homeworkcentral.com
Links to foreign language help sites - dictionaries, translators...
from bjpinchbeck.com
Multilingual
Dictionaries - Virtually all languages - over 200 - excellent from your
dictionary.com
Virtual
Library of Languages -"The Human Language Page" index to
sites related to language & linguistics. Includes spoken examples,
tutorials, translators...
http://www.june29.com/HLP/
Russian Links from About.Com
Spanish language Links from About.Com
Spanish for
the Virtual Spanish Student - learn Spanish
in 50 modules
http://www.umr.edu/~amigos/Virtual/
Spanish Search Engine - Find information and
articles written in Spanish
http://www.radar.com.mx/
Translator: Type something in English & have it
instantly translated into another language. EXCELLENT TRANSLATOR
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Translator:
Type something in English & have it
instantly translated into another language
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Translator:
links to many free translation sites, free
online language courses, language
chat rooms, foreign magazines ...excellent http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
Read news from Zenit.org is your choice of 4 languages
http://zenit.org/
Ethnologue
Database - Information on 6,500 languages, including dialects. interesting
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ethnologue.html
Language Jokes from MailBits:
These are the nominees for the Chevy Nova Award. This is
given out in honor of the GM's fiasco in trying to market this
car in Central and South America. "No va" means, of course,
in Spanish, "it doesn't go".
1. The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign
"Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It
was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation
read "Are you lactating?"
2. Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish, where
it was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea."
3. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the
following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an
Electrolux."
4. Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into
Germany only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not
too many people had use for the "Manure Stick."
5. When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used
the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the
label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely
put pictures on the labels of what's inside, since many people
can't read.
6. Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the
name of a notorious porno magazine.
7. An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the
Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I
saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I Saw the Potato"
(la papa).
8. Pepsi's "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated
into "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in
Chinese.
9. The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela",
meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with
wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000
characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokou kole",
translating into "happiness in the mouth."
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