Language Translation Sites?

[marcusmarcusrc]

What site do people currently use for language translation? (I still default to babelfish.altavista.com but there may be other, better places by now)

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I don't think there are any translation sites that translate better than someone who *does* speak the language. But babelfish might translate German better than you do, or French better than *I* do. :)

[desireearmfeldt]

I bet my German grammar is as good as babelfish's. It better have me beat for vocab. :)

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

I pretty much use babelfish for vocab. On rare occasion, I'll let it at full sentences in languages I really have no idea about. Recently it helped me decipher the portuguese wikipedia entry on "Simaika" (my grandmother's maiden name) so that I found that Simaika means fish, more specifically as in the miracle of the "loaves and fishes".