As the web has spread across the world, more and more web pages are available in languages other than English. Google provides a translation link and language tools to enable you to read pages written in unfamiliar languages.

Google translates pages by computer. Machine translation is difficult to do well and tends not to be as clear as human translation. But it can give you the gist of what's written or suggestions for translating something into another language.

Your results may include a "Translate this page" link when a results page is written in a language different from your interface language (as specified by your Google Preferences, which is described in the next section). Your interface language is the language in which Google displays messages and labels, buttons, and tips on Google's home page and results page. You can translate pages written in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish into another language from that set.

Google's Language Tools overcome language barriers. Click on the "Language Tools" link to the right of the search box on Google's home page,

or visit www.google.com/language_tools, or select the Language Tools menu option in the Google Toolbar (in Part III, section Making Google Search Easier with Google Tools) to:

• Search for pages written in specific languages

• Search for pages located in specific countries

  Search Specific Languages or Countries

  Search pages written in: any language Arabic Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish   Search pages located in: any country Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Estonia Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Malta Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Panama Pakistan Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uruguay Venezuala Vietnam   Search for   Tip: If you typically search only pages in a specific language or languages, you can save this as your default search behavior on the Preferences page.

• Translate any text or web page from a limited set of languages including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish into another language in that set.

  Translate

  Translate text:      from English to German English to Spanish English to French English to Italian English to Portuguese German to English German to French Spanish to English French to English French to German Italian to English Portuguese to English   or   Translate a web page:      from English to German English to Spanish English to French English to Italian English to Portuguese German to English German to French Spanish to English French to English French to German Italian to English Portuguese to English

• Use the Google interface in another language,
  e.g., set Google's home page, messages and labels, and buttons to display in a specific language

  Use the Google Interface in Your Language

  Set the Google homepage, messages, and buttons to display in your selected language via our Preferences page. Google currently offers the following interface languages: Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bihari Bork, bork, bork! Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Elmer Fudd English Esperanto Estonian Faroese Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Hacker Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Klingon Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz Laothian Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Norwegian (Nynorsk) Occitan Oriya Persian Pig Latin Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Punjabi Romanian Russian Scots Gaelic Serbian Serbo-Croatian Sesotho Sindhi Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Tigrinya Turkish Turkmen Twi Uighur Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa Yiddish Zulu   If you don't see your native language here, you can help Google create it by becoming a volunteer translator. Check out our Google in Your Language program.

  Exercises These problems give you practice with translating words, pages, and results, and with finding pages in specific countries. For hints and answers to selected problems, see the Solutions page in the Appendix.

  1. Find out about public swimming pools that you can use when visiting Naples, Italy. Hint: Find the Italian words for "public swimming pool" and then search for them on pages in Italy.

  2. Find a reception hall, local caterer, disc jockey, and bartender that you can hire for a wedding reception at a small winery in Burgundy, France.

  3. Translate "I wish to mail a package. Where is the nearest post office? Thank you." into Spanish.

  4. Find the first chapter of Le Petit Prince online and have Google translate it into English. Compare this translation with the first chapter of The Little Prince translated by Katherine Woods, which you can find online if you don't have a handy copy of this wonderful children's book.

  5. Restrict your search to France and search for pages in English on the war in Iraq.

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