Thanks Judy. I will try this out. :).
----- Original Message -----
From: JDecker <JDecker@woh.rr.com>
To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet@lists.getty.edu>
Cc: L. P. Skeen <lpskeen@living-tree.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: FreeTranslation.com
> I decided to send this to the list. I have sent an e-mail to Pascal and
hope
> to hear back (I love the work of Joseph Cornell, too). I am curious if
Free
> Translation is a better option than Babelfish.
>
> My Spanish speaking student (a sixth grader) said FreeTranslation.com
> (http://www.freetranslation.com)
> was fairly accurate. Her brother still does not speak any English....They
go
> through all classes together and she helps him. I translated all of my
> lessons for her into Spanish so she could read them to her brother (both
> students were EXCELLENT in art--A's on every project). Since she also knew
> English--she would ask me if she didn't understand anything. I doubt that
> any Web translator is completely accurate....but that is our best option
> when we do not have resource people to help. I tried to learn some
> Spanish --- but I didn't do very well (I guess I am an "old dog" at
times).
>
> Please post any Web translators that your Language teachers feel are the
> best. I asked for help from ours and didn't get any answer...So did some
> searching on my own. My students knew that if any thing was way off---or
> didn't make sense to ask me for an explanation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Judy
>
>
> ---
>
