Translate This!

Analysis of Online Translation Sites       See Additional Sites

Choose any three of the above translation sites (or another if you have it approved first!) and compare and contrast them. To do this - it will help if you consider some of the questions following the links.

http://www.freetranslation.com/

http://translation2.paralink.com/

http://translate.google.com/#

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://frengly.com/

http://freetranslation.imtranslator.net/

Look & Feel of the site:

What colors are used?

Does it have a lot of stuff going on (busy) or is it simple?

Is it easy to locate the area you need to use?

User Interface

Are there easy-to-follow instructions?

Is it clear how to use it without instructions?

Are text boxes and buttons easy to find and intuitive?

Translation Quality

Enter the same sentence or two into three different sites and place the responses side by side.

What differences are there?

Similarities?

Which site would you recommend for use?

Please be sure to supply at least three (3) strong pieces of evidence to support your choice (use your notes from answering the questions above to find the evidence!)

Additional Sites

Greetings
http://www.studystack.com/matching-6906

Number practice
http://myabcspanish.com/my-spanish-abc-basic/
http://www.spanishspanish.com/numbers/QUIZ_numbers20.html

Colors
http://www.spanishspanish.com/colors/color_menu.html
http://www.quia.com/jg/280547.html

Countries and Capitals
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/samericaquiz.html
http://www.quia.com/jg/67887.html

General practice
http://www.digitaldialects.com/Spanish.htm