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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Using Wikipedia to translate concepts

Wikipedia is organized by topic, so switching languages while reading about a topic takes you to the same page in the other language (if it exists).
  1. Example:
    ENGLISH: Disambiguation
    French: Homonymie
    Spanish: Desambiguación
  2. Granddictionnaire.com is solid if incomplete
  3. Word Reference comprehensive in English Español Français Italiano Português
    Also includes conjugation, images!
    Example: output:
    in Spanish in French in Italian in context images Listen: US - UK
  4. Altavista.com can even be used with two windows, one for each direction
    example: one for french to english, the other english to french