Inde gladio destricto in Achillem ruit; collo tamen vulneratus humi moriens concidit.

can anyone help? thank you

Hello,

No, these translators are not really good in the simplest of languages because they have no way of correcting and adjusting grammar and syntax. Latin as you see is a very heavily inflected language with different syntax and because of this, a translator is not possible. Even the simple dictionaries do not work well.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Best regards,
kitty

good afternoon,
see links below, they can help you.
you have the town web site

http://www.froberville.fr/presentation.htm

and the web links to the thai embassy and thai tourism office

http://www.franco-thai.com/adresses.php

I wish you all the best for your wedding

For converting Latin letters into Cyrillic and vice versa you can use this site: http://www.translit.ru/
It gives you Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian alphabets. You just print your word (sentence, text) in a big window and click "??? ? ???????" (translit into Russian) or "??? ? ???." (translit into Latin). Very convenient.

As for on-line translation, all the programs are perfect if you want to have fun and cheer up. They’re awful if you need proper translation. To understand the "quality" of translation, just try to translate some simple sentence from your native English into Russian and then back into English. You’ll see what I mean…

If you absolutely need on-line translation, try this site:

http://www.online-translator.com/text.asp?lang=en

You’ll see two windows (upper and lower). Print (or copy-paste) your text in the upper one, choose the direction below (say, English-Russian translation) and click the red button (Translate!). You’ll get what they think you need.

Another site that I can recommend, is: http://www.lingvo.com/
It’s reallly good, giving you not just plain translation, but also spelling suggestions and many ways of using the word. Make sure you switch to English version (in upper right corner).

As for keyboards, you can easily do this in two steps. Add Russian language to the language panel of your computer (Language Panel -> Show the Language Bar -> Settings -> Add -> Russian (Russia)) and then buy Cyrillic keyboard. There are plenty of them on eBay.

Good luck!

"There is currently no universal form of certification required of all interpreters and translators in the United States, but there are a variety of different tests that workers can voluntarily take to demonstrate proficiency. The American Translators Association provides accreditation in more than 24 language combinations for its members; other options include a certification program offered by The Translators and Interpreters Guild. Many interpreters are not certified. Federal courts have certification for Spanish, Navajo, and Haitian Creole interpreters, and many State and municipal courts offer their own forms of certification. The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators also offers certification for court interpreting."

American Translators Association, 225 Reinekers Ln., Suite 590, Alexandria, VA 22314. Internet: http://www.atanet.org

The Translators and Interpreters Guild, 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 500, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Internet: http://www.ttig.org

Good luck!

Any help would be great!

Thanks.

I don’t know how old your grandmother is or what her education level was like but if the circumstance is like my grandmother (not likely but a lot of old people are like this) then she might not even be able to read/write as well as oral communication and like you fear, speak mostly the local dialect. Just write it in simple Japanese and it should be fine. Those old people know it just don’t use it until you force them to speak regular Japanese. Or have your parents write it. One of them surely speaks hougen (dialect) if your grandmother does, how else did she raise your parent? Of course, if you don’t use it you lose it.

If you don’t think she can read well, tape record it or burn it on a CD. Or why not place a 5 minute phone call (not too expensive). If you need help from actual people, contact your local Okinawa Kenjinkai (people’s prefecture organization). Many of them offer hougen lessons so if a teacher can’t help, then maybe one of the volunteers there know hougen. On our Young Okinawans of Southern California web site, I tried to put a link to every Kenjinkai with a web site that I could find. Plus a link to the worldwide Kenjinkais (so many in USA) so you could find one closest to your area. (I admit some links are broken and I need to update them, including the worldwide list.)

Generic way to start off, obaachan ogenki desuka? (not hougen, doesn’t need to be imho)