Google Translate now supports 506 language pairs and becomes the most comprehensive online translation tool available for free.
"Most state-of-the-art, commercial machine-translation systems in use today have been developed using a rule-based approach, and require a lot of work to define vocabularies and grammars. Our system takes a different approach: we feed the computer billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation model . . .
"Automatic translation is very difficult, as the meaning of words depends on the context in which they're used. While we are working on the problem, it may be some time before anyone can offer a quick and seamless translation experience," according to Google Translate FAQ.
While imperfect, readers now have a valuable resource. Also see this resource link for a listing of other translation possibilities to cross-check meaning - http://www.omniglot.com/links/translation.htm.
Google Translate's coverage has been expanded and now supports the translation between any of the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
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