Japanese Language Converter

[polishstorm]

hey guys can someone point me in the right direction to a site that decods japanese

cheers

Jeremy

[DaiOni]

nothing does it correctly

however...

use google language tools for a page translate

or use http://www.excite.co.jp/world/ for text cut n' pastes - this one is better than google, but doesn't do whole page translations

[Patto-]

Theres also this one, but as you will find out they don't do it very well.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Here is an example of something translated from English to Japanese and then back to English:

"What would you like to translate? Because sites like these don't do it very well. They almost always mix words up."

"We would like to translate what? The place where they are these ways that being not to improve very. Those when it is the majority, mix word."

[polishstorm]

just tried the google page but i dont see it working well and the other site is in japanese to start with

[SKY 34]

the way their grammar works is different to English some are inverted ..that is why no Japanese language coverter works well....direct translation from Japanese to English will be giberish...I think that's what most language converter does

[DaiOni]

"the other site is in japanese to start with"

if you look at it that way - you're already doomed

it's pretty simple - paste in the text and choose english-japanese or vice versa. You have a 50% chance of choosing the right button, and if you get it wrong - try the other one

[DaiOni]

using shyster's interesting little test, excite provides th following;

"What do you want to translate?Because the site like these doesn't do it well too much. They always almost mix the word up."

pretty damn good, IMO

[polishstorm]

hehe thanks i have the hang of the excite site now

[Patto-]

That thing works very well. The other one is almost useless for translating japanese in comparison.

It only does ok with languages similar to English, such as German.

[akeenan]

i just spent the past 2 days translating some japanese and translating some other english which was converted from japanese using converting software. god it was a nightmare.