What's up with BABLEFISH???

[hjgauthier]

Someone recently mentioned a program called "Babelfish." This is a translator program that allows you to communicate online with people that speak different languages. I do business with people internationally and only speak English.
Have any of you used this product or some other translation software, how does it work, and how is that working for you?

Thanks,
Hubert

Hubert

[Brian Turner]

Babelfish is just a text translator that Alta Vista launched years and years ago.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

[tamecrow]

Type an English sentence or paragraph, translate to a language of your choice, then translate back. It's pretty horrific! I speak German and have used Babelfish in moments of boredom to provide me with a good laugh. Nothing beats learning the language

[RWA]

translate backwards and forwards several times and it gets quite amusing

[hjgauthier]

Originally Posted by tamecrow

Type an English sentence or paragraph, translate to a language of your choice, then translate back. It's pretty horrific! I speak German and have used Babelfish in moments of boredom to provide me with a good laugh. Nothing beats learning the language

I appreciate that "Nothing beats learning the language," but I am 51, speak only English and have clients in countries from the middle east, africa, china, russia and more.

It would take quite a bit of time to learn 5 to 10 new languages.

Thanks for all your replies.

Hubert

[tamecrow]

Originally Posted by hjgauthier

I appreciate that "Nothing beats learning the language," but I am 51, speak only English and have clients in countries from the middle east, africa, china, russia and more.

It would take quite a bit of time to learn 5 to 10 new languages.

Thanks for all your replies.

Hubert

Honestly, no dedication some people

[AnaitSagoyan]

Good managemet is a succes

[hjgauthier]

I was wondering, if someone was going to use babelfish for ongoing training, which do you think would work better, translating and then putting the translation in an email, or sending the email with a link to babelfish and letting the recipient translate the english email to thier language?

thanks,
Hubert

[bumfluff]

Let the recipient translate it - so any mistakes it makes aren't your fault.

[hjgauthier]

Originally Posted by bumfluff

Let the recipient translate it - so any mistakes it makes aren't your fault.

That is kinda what I was thinking. Also, for those that have a good grasp on english, they won't need a translation and therefore get my message as I would like to word it.

Thanks,
Hubert