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> > I am in the middle of Mexico & have been without a TV for > > weeks, do not get English on my radio, and must go looking > > for an English newspaper. Yesterday I found a newspaper that > > was only a day old. Also, I have been trying to get onto a local > > ISP. This has taken four days, and is still not right. > > Nancy........when you get yourself situated, you might try a newspaper site > that someone on the list gave awhile back.... > http://www.onlinenewspapers.com > ..thousands of newspapers from all over the world..you could even possibly > find your local Mexican newspaper on this site and cut and paste articles > into some of the translation web sites and you would have your local news > as well as news from your former home town..... > > Murray: do you know of one particularly good translation site for > Nancy????? > > Joan Hartman Hi Nancy and Hi Joan, The alltime quick'n dirty online translator is babelfish.... Gail Vass gave us the heads up a couple years ago.... Online Translation: February 12, 1998 -- AltaVista has introduced an new online translation service. It's called "Babelfish," and it provides -- free of charge -- a site for users to translate English text into German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It also works in reverse, rendering those languages into English. But Babelfish, which takes its name from a character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that could translate brain waves, has its imperfections. Ambiguous words in English are often mistranslated, with some hilarious results. Babelfish can be found at http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn Once there, you can type in what you want to say and they will translate it into Spanish for you. They also can translate it into other languages such as French, German, Italian, etc. You can cut'n paste text for translation Spanish to English or vice versa. You can even type in a URL to translate an entire web page. This one, Free Translator, is very similar. http://www.freetranslation.com/ There are other online translators... http://www.prospector.cz/Services/Translation/ http://www.hum.port.ac.uk/slas/begona/Tool_and_software.htm http://www.chesleyhouse.com/Contract/free_translation.htm but I haven't tried 'em... We try to make a difference ......... murray [log in to unmask]