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The Flying Lizards 80-ies number convincingly refutes the adage that the best things in life are free...  best things require money particularly when selling your product or service internationally. But one can still get free instant gratification/translation of sorts, please scroll down to the bottom of page!

 
Translation searches are some of the most popular searches on the web,  the word "free translation" over 41 million hits and only exceeded by the hits for "translation" 140 million. It is not used for business and commerce, and this is not for lack of trying; vast amounts of programming time and computer resources have been utilised to create an instant computing version of a human translator, but it has proven to be a winner in the more constrained logical human pastime, the game of chess, where raw computing processsng has eventually prevailed.  The reason we do not have the Universal Translator from Star Trek is due the sheer complexity and accuracy required for meaningful communication. And you get what you paid for. As an example the word "run" depending on the context may have up to 47 possible translations and so far a human translator is still required to decipher this. Automatic phrase books and parsers have been used to a limited extent by American soldiers in Iraq and tourists worldwide  and have limited use.

You may not mind reading text that has been plucked out of a dictionary, or bizzare, misleading phrases provided you can get some idea of what someone is saying in another language. The primary reason for popularity of this  free translation service is for inital reading/searching of web pages of companies that do not support the customer's  language.

There are a number of tools available on the net that will "translate" for free and google arguably the most user friendly. This tool has moved away from machine translation and also attempts to create more accurate translations by aggregating the multilingual content available on the net.

For free translation buyers or bilinguals,  try it  on the web pages here, but "buyer beware!", we do not vouch for the accuracy of the service. For additional information on free machine translation software tools please also visit  systransoft.com 

And until we do achieve the Universal Translator used by Ensign Hoshi Sato in Star Trek, business and commerce translation buyers will require human translators who will charge a service fee for their time and effort.