Multilingual (Translating) Dictionaries

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Multilingual (Translating) Dictionaries

• Babelfish - Quick and dirty translation of text or web pages, bidirectional with French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
• Babylon.com - Downloadable dictionary tool, providing translations and definitions for any on-screen word or expression, based upon a growing number of free and premium glossaries.
• DicoVox - Word translation engine: English to French, French to English, and German to English. Includes vocal output capabilities.
• Dictionary 24 - Provides free online dictionaries for translations between English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian.
• DictSearch - Portal for bidirectional word translations, using more than 100 dictionaries and about 300 language combinations.
• Equine Multilingual Dictionary - Horse-related terminology, in French, English, German, and Spanish.
• EWGate - Quick translation of sentences from English to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Malay or vice-versa. From the Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore.
• Greek-Latvian Proper Names - Greek-Latvian lexicon of proper names (incomplete).
• HearWords.com - Translate English, Spanish, and German words - with audio pronunciations.
• HuntFor.com - Set of the translation tools on a single page. Multilingual dictionary, URL translator, text translator, and Webster.
• InOneSearch - Bidirectional word translation for English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.
• Internet Dictionary Project - Limited word translation engine for English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Latin, and Portuguese.
• LangToLang - Online dictionary between Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. Multiple word search by using commas available.
• Language Box - Versatile site for learning foreign languages, experiencing world press, radio and TV, art, culture and general civilisation of different countries.
• Laurie's Links - A variety of machine translation links from Machine Translation News International, compiled by Laurie Gerber.
• LinguScout - Travel phrases.
• List of Dictionaries - A comprehensive site of dictionaries of many languages and terms from the Universities of Paderborn, Germany.
• LOGOS Dictionary - A super-dictionary, for individual word look-ups in any of a hundred languages.
• MaximumEdge.com Translation - Bidirectional text translation between English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
• Mezzofanti - A collection of text translation engines for most of the European and South African languages.
• Multilingual Atlas - The names of countries in Europe in several European languages
• Online Dictionaries - Portal site of bidirectional dictionaries for English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian.
• Online dictionaries and translation tools - Links and reviews of online dictionaries and translation tools for Portuguese, Spanish and English.
• Orðabók Gunnars Jónssonar - Seven-language fish dictionary. Find the names for various fishes in Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Danish, German, English, Faroese, Spanish, and Portuguese.
• Picture Dictionary - Multilingual picture dictionary with interactive activities for French, German, Spanish, Italian, and ESL learners.
• Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica (PDLMA) - Includes online dictionaries for Oluta-Mixe and San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque, Mixe-Zoquean languages spoken in Veracruz and Oaxaca, Mexico.
• PROMT-Online - Free online translation to and from English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish.
• Quechua Network - Spanish-Quechua word dictionary. Webpage available in English, Spanish, French, and Quechua.
• RealTranslations - Bidirectional word translation for English to/from Spanish, Italian, French, and German.
• Roboword - Instant translation software. Available dictionaries include Japanese-English and Japanese-German.
• Systran Translation - Bidirectional text translation between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
• Travelingo's Audio Travel Bug - This audio language guide is a quick and easy way to learn the essential words, phrases, and numbers in eleven languages.
• Travlang - Bidirectional word dictionaries in 65 languages, soon to add Real Audio sound clips for pronunciation.
• Tritrans - Word translator, supporting English, Spanish, and Norwegian simultaneously.
• WordReference.com - Dictionary and free browser plug-in based on the Collins Dictionaries: into English from Spanish, French, German, and Italian.
• Wordtheque - A powerful corpus-based translation engine with access to over a hundred languages.
• Word2Word - A huge collection of links to online dictionaries.
• World Language Resources - Worldwide retail distribution of foreign language dictionaries in printed and electronic form. Offering hundreds of dictionaries in many languages.