French English Translation Services

[Guest VanBCGuy]

I am in need of a French/English translation service. I thought someone in Montreal might know of a resource. This is for personal correspondence, not business.

 

I need a real live person to do this. Any of the automated translaters, like Google, do a really bad job.

 

Thanks in advance!

[theDCeBOY]

being a polyglot, i am driven to ask: how much are you paying?

[Guest VanBCGuy]

>being a polyglot, i am driven to ask:

>how much are you paying?

 

I am not sure what the rates are, but I have see .10 to .15 (cdn) per word.

[theDCeBOY]

LOL! that's like 1/100th of a US cent! }(

you're welcome to contact me privately if you'd like to discuss translation services.

[Paul Revere]

For short messages, you may try:

 

http://www.freetranslation.com/

 

But as with most automated translators, it doesn't always get the idioms correct. This site has a pay service too, but I can not vouch for it, as I only use the free service for short messages.

 

It really helped when I was writing the Christmas card to my Brazilian cleaning woman. She was thrilled that I took the time to write the card in Portuguese.

[Guest VanBCGuy]

>For short messages, you may try:

>

>http://www.freetranslation.com/

>

>But as with most automated translators, it doesn't always get

>the idioms correct. This site has a pay service too, but I

>can not vouch for it, as I only use the free service for short

>messages.

>

>It really helped when I was writing the Christmas card to my

>Brazilian cleaning woman. She was thrilled that I took the

>time to write the card in Portuguese.

 

I have used that service for very vanilla messages, and its great for that, but anything complex or with any idioms / slang etc., things get mis-translated.

[Guest VanBCGuy]

>LOL! that's like 1/100th of a US cent!

>}(

>you're welcome to contact me privately if you'd like to

>discuss translation services.

 

The Canadian Dollarette is getting stronger. Actually, its a case of the US dollar losing some ground. I am paid in US dollars, so believe me, I would like the US dollar to be strong.

 

Thanks, Ethan (and the others who have replied privately). The community of people on this board are helpful and generous.

 

Thanks, I'll get in touch privately. (and I was just in DC - had a great time as well).

[Guest Stephan Lacoste]

Email me, I can do help you out... no problems and free of charge

Stef

[bigguyinpasadena]

Again Stephan steps up to show what a great young man he is-guys I have only had the pleasure of meeting Stephan once-and that was for a hooville dinner.What a wonderful charming fella he is.

VC-do yourself a favor and contact him.

[Guest VanBCGuy]

>Email me, I can do help you out... no problems and free of

>charge

>Stef

 

Thanks, I will do that.

 

I have had lots of private emails offering help. Good people here.

[Traveler North]

Try free service at http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

have used it many times with pretty good success.:-) :-)