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Free Translation Online Resources
Are you a translator looking for free dictionaries or other resources?
We have compiled this list of resources to make your search easier.
Note: STAR provides links to external sites for reference only. We are
not responsible for any external content or implications from their use.
They are provided as is in good faith from our own experiences on the web. You
should always have important translation professionally done - here's
why.
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Free Global Information
 CIA World
Factbook
The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use
of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are
designed to meet their specific requirements. It gives background information on
virtually every country in the world from population, flags, languages to local
information on ecomonics etc.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Free Translation Dictionaries
EUR-LEX
The EUR-LEX site (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/)
provides direct free access to European Union law. It is the largest
document repository on European Union Law. Available in all official languages
of the EU, it has extensive search facilities.
Microsoft
Terminology Dictionaries and Language Support
Microsoft makes available a large number of its terminology dictionaries to
its customers and translators. If you need to check term in any language
for a microsoft product then simply visit their online language site. http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/MILSGlossary.mspx
Specific Language Dictionaries:
Catalan
 http://www.diccionaris.net
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
http://zh.thefreedictionary.com/
Czech
http://slovnik.seznam.cz/
http://slovnik.zcu.cz/online/
http://wordreference.com/encz/
Slovak
http://slovnik.zcu.cz/online/
http://www.slovnik.sk/
Dutch
http://nl.thefreedictionary.com/
http://lookwayup.com/free/dictionary.htm
Estonian
http://dict.ibs.ee/index.html
http://mt.legaltext.ee/esterm/
Farsi
http://www.farsidic.com/
http://www.aryanpour.com/
http://www.ariadic.com/
French
www.granddictionnaire.com
www.wordreference.com
German
http://www.dict.cc/
http://odge.de/
http://wordreference.com/
Hungarian
http://szotar.sztaki.hu/english-hungarian
http://dict.sztaki.hu/english-hungarian
Irish
http://www.irishdictionary.ie/home
http://www.acmhainn.ie
- terminology and general translation support
http://www.achtanna.ie
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Acts of the Oireachtas, bilingual
http://www.focal.ie - Irish English dictionary
http://www.Irish.ie
- Official Foras na Gaeilge reference site for
the Irish language, training, resources etc.
http://www.abair.ie - Irish text to speech engine.
http://www.logainm.ie
- Official database for translation of Irish placenames in Irish/English
http://www.coimisineir.ie
- Protecting language Rights: The principal responsibilities of An
Coimisinéir Teanga are to monitor the manner in which public bodies throughout
the country are complying with the provisions of the Act and to take every
measure necessary to ensure that public bodies fulfill their duties under the
Act.
Italian
http://wordreference.com/
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-italian/
http://dizionari.repubblica.it/
Latvian
http://www.latvianforyou.com/cgi-bin/al.pl
Lithuanian
http://www.anglu-lietuviu.lt
http://www.dicts.info/2/english-lithuanian.php
Polish
http://www.ling.pl/
Portuguese
http://pt.thefreedictionary.com/
Romanian
http://www.lexi.ro/
http://hallo.ro/?l=ro
Russian
http://ru.thefreedictionary.com/
Slovenian
http://www.ltfe.org/slovar.asp
http://www.freelang.net/online/slovenian.php
Spanish
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=welcome
Tagalog
http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/index.htm
http://www.dicts.info/dictionary.php?k1=1&k2=278
Danish
http://www.parlor.dk/
Finnish
http://kaannos.com/sanastot/listaa
Greek
http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon
Indonesian
http://kamus.orisinil.com/
Norwegian
http://www.tritrans.net/index.html
Swedish
http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/sve-eng.html
http://www.interglot.com/
Arabic
http://www.tps.edu.ee/nastik/ar-en/
http://www.alburaq.net/dictionary/transform.cfm
Hindi
http://www.shabdkosh.com/
Japanese
http://tangorin.com/
http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict
Korean
http://www.zkorean.com/dictionary.shtml
http://www.bluedic.com/
Thai
http://lexitron.nectec.or.th/index1.php
http://www.thai-language.com/dict/
Turkish
http://mydictionary.dyndns.org/dict_en/index_en.html
http://www.langtolang.com/
Urdu
http://www.ijunoon.net/urdudic/
http://urduseek.com/
Free Machine Translation
Machine translation is the system where software tools attempt to automatically translate a page of text for you. Whilst the overall quality for machine translation has been responsible for some classic translation fauxpas' it is often useful to get the gist of a document very quickly. An interesting meta site which uses a number of engines to achieve this is http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/
It is certainly worthwhile checking this out, but never use it for real translation. |
