Spanish to English translation?

Translation of Spanish Website to English without Buying Translation Program

• I need to access the website www.banamex.com which is in Spanish. I would like to be able to have the site come up in English without having to buy a translation program. Is this possible? How?

• Answer:

  Hello sailingtraders-ga, As you probably know, even the professional translation programs that you can buy are not perfect. This is all the more true of a free translation program. Still, there are free online "translation engines", several of which are listed on the Google Directory: "Science > Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics > Translation > Tools > Translation Engines" Google Directory http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Language_and_Linguistics/Translation/Tools/Translation_Engines/ I tried Free Translation ( http://www.freetranslation.com/ ), but it requires entry of the URL for each page of the site, rather than translating automatically. Systran ( http://www.systransoft.com/ ) requires going back to the home page each time you want to see a new page. T-Sail ( http://www.t-mail.com/cgi-bin/tsail ) sometimes translates other pages of the Bamanex site automatically, but sometimes does not. I signed up for LogoMedia's free service ( http://www.logomedia.net/ ), and while it does translate pages on the site automatically, when I tested it, the Bamanex home page did not load completely, and the translations were fairly slow. The best option seems to be Alta Vista's Babel Fish Translation ( http://babelfish.altavista.com/ ). It uses the Systran software, but unlike Systran's own site, the Babel Fish engine translates each page on a web site automatically when you click on the link. Like the other translation engines, it does not translate some words on the Bamanex site that it does not recognize as text, or the pop-up boxes. But it is fairly fast, and you will be able to read much of the Bamanex web site. (You can open a second window containing the Babel Fish home page, and copy and paste some of the untranslated text in order to get a translation of that text.) I hope that this information is helpful. - justaskscott-ga Search term used on Google: translation