Most of the sites listed on this page provide free online translation of text and/or webpages between a number of different languages.
Name translations and transliterations | Free translation | Multilingual translators | Bilingual translators | Find a translator | Translation-related articles | Translation blogs | Electronic dictionaries and translators
Freelance translators and translation jobs
Lost In Translation Agency Game by Copypanthers
http://www.copypanthers.com/lost-in-translation-agency
These are websites offering translation and/or transliteration of names, words and phrases in a variety of languages and writing systems.
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
http://www.tattoos-by-design.co.uk
Tibetan
http://www.inkessential.com
http://www.tibetan-calligraphy.com
http://www.learntibetan.net
Information about Tibetan | Tibetan phrases | Tower of Babel in Tibetan | Tibetan learning materials
Elvish / Tengwar
Translations into Elvish (Quenya/Sindarin) and transliterations into Tengwar
http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html
http://forums.theonering.com/viewforum.php?f=8
Cirth | Sarati | Tengwar, Quenya & Sindarin) | Uruk Runes | Tolkien-related links | Books about Tolkien's invented languages | Tolkien's books in various languages
Chinese
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
http://www.zhongwen.com/qianming.htm
http://www.transname.com
http://www.char4u.com
http://www.asianbrushart.com
http://www.cafepress.com/chinesenames/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/names
http://www.chinesenames.org
Information about Mandarin | Mandarin phrases | More Mandarin links | Mandarin learning materials
Japanese
http://japanese.about.com/bl50kanji.htm
Japanese language | Written Japanese | Hiragana | Katakana | Kanji | Rōmaji | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Tower of Babel | Learning materials | Japanese links
Mongolian (traditional script)
http://www.linguamongolia.com/tran1.html
Information about Mongolian | Mongolian phrases | Tower of Babel in Mongolian | Mongolian learning materials
Irish & Scottish Gaelic
http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/
Information about Scottish Gaelic | Phrases | Numbers | Kinship terms | Tower of Babel | Songs | Links | Learning materials
Russian
http://www.russian-translation-pros.com/free-russian-translation-service.html
Information about Russian | Russian phrases | Russian idioms | Tower of Babel in Russian | Russian links | Russian learning materials
Amharic
http://www.amhariconline.com/shop.html
Information about Amharic | Amharic phrases | Tower of Babel in Amharic | Amharic learning materials
Ancient Greek
http://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php/board,14.0.html
Information about Greek | Modern Greek phrases | Ancient Greek phrases | Tower of Babel in Modern Greek | Tower of Babel in Ancient Greek | Greek links | Greek learning materials | Books about the Greek alphabet
Latin
http://latinforum.org
Information about the Latin alphabet | Information about the Latin language | Latin phrases | Tower of Babel in Latin | Latin learning materials
Arabic - free translation of names and phrases into Arabic
http://arabic.speak7.com/learn_arabic.htm
Information about Arabic | Phrases in Modern Standard Arabic | Phrases in Egyptian Arabic | Phrases in Lebanese Arabic | Phrases in Moroccan Arabic | Tower of Babel in Arabic | Arabic links | Arabic learning materials | Books about the Arabic script | Arabic electronic dictionaries and translators
Tagalog/Baybayin
http://www.eaglescorner.com/baybayin/baybayin.html
Information about Tagalog | Tagalog phrases | Numbers in Tagalog | Tower of Babel in Tagalog | Tagalog learning materials
Please note: some sites have a policy of not providing translations intended for tattoos.
Online dictionaries | Electronic dictionaries and translators
Byvox, professional online translation and interpretation via app, web and mobile
Websites where you can obtain free or low-cost translations.
FREELANG - Human Translation (free translation of short, non-commercial texts)
http://www.freelang.net/translation/
Free Translation Forums
http://help.berberber.com/free-translation-forums/
http://www.oasisllc.com/transtrad/forum.htm
Ackuna - free community-based translations
http://ackuna.com/
WikiTranslation - Free human translation service based on the wiki idea
http://wikitranslation.org
myGengo - Simple, low-cost human translation
http://mygengo.com
Online translation sites enable you to understand the gist of a piece of foreign text or website, but are not entirely accurate or reliable and are no substitute for a human translator. For an illustration of this, see:
http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
http://funnytranslator.com/translation/
Text and webpage translation between English and Spanish, French,
German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese
http://www.freetranslation.com
Translation software, handheld translators and other translation products
http://www.ectaco-store.com
Webpage translation between English and Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian or Spanish: http://www.worldlingo.com/en/websites/url_translator.html
Text translation between Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian Czech,
Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,
Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
http://www.behnevis.com/translate.html
Text and webpage translation between Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian, German and Russian: http://www.translendium.com
Text and webpage translation between English, French, German and Spanish
http://www.reverso.net
Free text translation between many languages
http://hablaa.com/
Text, webpage and email translation between Russian and English, French, German, Spanish and Italian: http://www.translate.ru/eng/erre.asp
Webpage translation between between English and French, German, Japanese,
Italian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese or Korean
http://www.t-mail.com/cgi-bin/tsail
Free online translation service
http://www.cucumis.org
A collaborative translation project to help webmasters get free multilingual versions of their web sites: http://www.freelocalization.com
Free online translation between Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: http://www.langdy.com/dacc_g.htm
Free online translation between English, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, and Spanish
http://www.localtranslation.com
Free online translation between many languages from Arikaans to Yiddish
http://www.asiatranslate.net/free-translation.html
Document and website translation services in more than 120 languages
http://www.apex-translations.com
Free Online translation between Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian: http://www.gts-translation.com/freetranslation.asp
Free online translator between Chinese, English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish that speaks the translations using text-to-speech technology: http://www.pollyglotto.com
Online translation between many languages (site in Czech)
http://prekladac.net
Free online translation between many differnt languages
http://www.translationbooth.com/
Free online translations between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: http://www.yofast.org
Free online tranlsation between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian
http://globalvoices.co.uk/free_translation_tool_new2.php
Text and webpage translation between a number of languages, including English, Chinese,
French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian
http://www.bubblestrans.com/english/translator.html
Free, open-source translation between English, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, Arranese, French, Esperanto, Romanian, Basque, Welsh, Breton, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish: http://www.apertium.org
Free translation betweeen many languages, from Albanian to Vietnamese
http://www.tolingo.com/pages/free/text_translation.php
http://www.tolingo.com/pages/free/website_translation.php
Traduction des textes et pages web entre français, anglais, allemand, espagnol et russe
http://tr.voila.fr
Free online translation between many languages
http://www.bablefishfx.com
Free online translation between many languages
http://www.babilon-translator.com/altavista-babelfish-translation/
Online translation between 35 languages
http://www.freetranslations.org
Prestige Network free resources (Multilingual Appointment Card and Language ID Card)
http://www.prestigenetwork.co.uk/translation/freerscr/index.htm
Multilingual translator that allows you to rate translations and suggest better ones
http://howtosay.org
Free online translation between over 100 languages
http://www.prevodachbg.com/en/
How To Translate PDF Files to Different Languages for free
http://www.pdfconverter.com/resources/blog/how-to-translate-pdf-files-to-different-languages-free
One of the most trusted directories of translation related sites in Internet. Translation Trusted Directory is a high quality human edited directory of the best web resources cataloged in an intuitive and easy way to find: http://translation.trusted-directory.com
Professional UK translation company offering translation services between English and all major World languages
http://www.betterlanguages.com
English 'Dialect' Translators
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk (Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie, etc.)
http://www.stokeferry.com/visitor/broadnorfolk (Board Norfolk)
http://www.geordie.org.uk (Geordie)
http://www.topfun.co.uk/babelsheep (Cumbrian)
http://www.tuco.de/home/jschef.htm (Swedish Chef)
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.htm (Pirate)
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect (Redneck, Elmer Fudd, Pig Latin, etc.)
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Arabic - English
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb
http://www.almisbar.com/salam_trans.html
Catalan
http://www.translendium.com
http://www.internostrum.com/welcome.php
Chinese - English
http://www.readworld.com/tran
TransName.com - have your name or other words or phrases translated into Chinese
http://www.transname.com
English <> Indonesian
http://www.toggletext.com
Polish - English
http://www.poltran.com
Persian (Farsi) - English
http://www.parstranslator.com
English - Spanish
http://www.lingo24.com/contextrans-spanish-english-translation-service.html
http://www.lingo24.com/contextrans-english-spanish-translation-service.html
http://www.english-spanish-translations.com/free-translation/translate-phrase.htm
http://www.spanishdict.com
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Translator forums and databases of translators
http://www.proz.com
http://www.translatorsbase.com
http://www.babelport.com
http://www.translatorscenter.com
http://www.translatorpub.com
http://www.proshunters.com
FreelancerSupport - lists translation jobs and has other resoures for translators
http://www.freelancersupport.com
Translation School: Worldwide translation schools directory
http://www.translationschools.org
Carrie Booth - French to English translation services
http://www.thetranslationbooth.co.uk
English-German translation help service
http://english-german-translation.info/translation-help-we-help-out-translators-in-emergencies/
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Articles about translation, typesetting and related topics
http://www.wintranslation.com/article_centre.html
Articles about translation, language, etc.
http://patenttranslators.com/articles.htm
Articles about translating, interpreting and web globalization
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/translation/articles.html
Articles about translation, localisation and language learning
http://www.lexicool.com/articles.asp
Translation Journal - A Publication for Translators by Translators about Translators and Translation: http://www.accurapid.com/journal/
Machine translation
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/machtr.html
Better Languages Translation News
http://www.betterlanguages.com/news/
Translation White Papers
http://www.wintranslation.com/translation-white-papers/
Translation zilla - compare your language skills with your friends
http://translationzilla.com/game.aspx
Translation Industry Articles by SureLanguages
http://www.sure-languages.com/en/articles/
How to Translate PDF Documents Without Learning Another Language
http://www.investintech.com/resources/blog/archives/2640-how-to-translate-pdf-documents-without-learning-another-language.html
Translation and language-related articles on Omniglot
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Foreign Language Translation Service
http://www.becomeatranslator.com
http://www.nakedtranslations.com/en/blog.php
http://translationpost.com
http://brave-new-words.blogspot.com
http://coglanglab.blogspot.com
http://blog.web-translations.com
http://translation-blog.trustedtranslations.com
http://blog.worldlanguagecommunications.com
http://blog.multiling.com
http://transpanish.biz/translation_blog/
http://www.morningtrans.com/category/blog
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