+csparky61 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 My daughter and I have recently become interested in geocaching. My daughter will be visiting the Netherlands and a few other European countries in January and she would like to find some caches while there. The problem she is encountering is that the information is all in Dutch or whatever. Is there a way to convert this info to English??? Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment
+Super_Nate Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I haven't looked myself...but do you think their would be a converter that you could lookup on Google that you could copy & paste the cache description in Dutch and it would give it back to you in English? Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Google will do it for you. Go to Google and look on the right hand side for "Language tools". El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+csparky61 Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give it a try!! Quote Link to comment
+norsehawk Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 just be aware that an automatic translation tool will give a very rough at best translation. in effect it takes each word, and provides the translation for that word. so you lose much of the nuance of what was intended. For example, I took the above bit I just wrote, automatically translated it to spanish, and then back to english, then to german and back to english: to be hardly found out, which gives a tool of the automatic translation inside well from the cases of one much to Rohübersetzung. in reality it takes each word, and it makes the translation available for this word. you lose as much from the colour of, which it was thought. Quote Link to comment
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 (edited) You can use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ or http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en As stated by previous geocachers, an automatic translation tool won't give you a perfect and understandble text. If you have doubts, contact the owners of the geocaches and asked them for a translation. Edited September 19, 2006 by SUp3rFM & Cruella Quote Link to comment
+jamwis Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 If you need serious help on finer detail I may be able to help. I work as a translator (Dutch into English) and may have spare time for small amounts of translation when you are really stuck. Beware computer translations!!! Good luck Quote Link to comment
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