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GregW:
This is just too cool. If your Pinoy/Pinay spouse/bf/gf has trouble understanding the English on the internet then just go to the link below. They have Pilipino (although it\'s listed as Filipino) and it will automatically translate the webpage for them. Enter the url in the box and just select the language the web site is in, select Filipino and finally click on \"Translate\".
This might also be helpful for those who are trying to learn Tagalog/Pilipino.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#
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--- Quote from: GregW on March 10, 2009, 10:47:22 AM ---This is just too cool. If your Pinoy/Pinay spouse/bf/gf has trouble understanding the English on the internet then just go to the link below. They have Pilipino (although it\'s listed as Filipino) and it will automatically translate the webpage for them. Enter the url in the box and just select the language the web site is in, select Filipino and finally click on \"Translate\".
This might also be helpful for those who are trying to learn Tagalog/Pilipino.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#
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That looks a very useful site.
There is a similar one here http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ but it does not cover Tagalaog.
Colin
Gray Wolf:
--- Quote from: Colin on March 10, 2009, 11:45:39 AM ---
--- Quote from: GregW on March 10, 2009, 10:47:22 AM ---This is just too cool. If your Pinoy/Pinay spouse/bf/gf has trouble understanding the English on the internet then just go to the link below. They have Pilipino (although it\'s listed as Filipino) and it will automatically translate the webpage for them. Enter the url in the box and just select the language the web site is in, select Filipino and finally click on \"Translate\".
This might also be helpful for those who are trying to learn Tagalog/Pilipino.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#
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That looks a very useful site.
There is a similar one here http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ but it does not cover Tagalaog.
Colin
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Colin,
The babelfish site is well named. It\'s nothing but babble. ;D My Mom used it once to translate and send a letter to my in-laws. They were totally baffled. I tried it using some phrases I\'m very familiar with. All that came out was garbled words with no meaning. I don\'t know who put it together or why, but it appears to be useless, unless I\'m missing something, which is totally possible, since I\'m just a simple old hillbilly from Kentucky. :o ::) ;D
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--- Quote from: Gray Wolf on March 11, 2009, 06:51:31 AM ---
--- Quote from: Colin on March 10, 2009, 11:45:39 AM ---
--- Quote from: GregW on March 10, 2009, 10:47:22 AM ---This is just too cool. If your Pinoy/Pinay spouse/bf/gf has trouble understanding the English on the internet then just go to the link below. They have Pilipino (although it\'s listed as Filipino) and it will automatically translate the webpage for them. Enter the url in the box and just select the language the web site is in, select Filipino and finally click on \"Translate\".
This might also be helpful for those who are trying to learn Tagalog/Pilipino.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#
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That looks a very useful site.
There is a similar one here http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ but it does not cover Tagalaog.
Colin
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Colin,
The babelfish site is well named. It\'s nothing but babble. ;D My Mom used it once to translate and send a letter to my in-laws. They were totally baffled. I tried it using some phrases I\'m very familiar with. All that came out was garbled words with no meaning. I don\'t know who put it together or why, but it appears to be useless, unless I\'m missing something, which is totally possible, since I\'m just a simple old hillbilly from Kentucky. :o ::) ;D
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Jack,I have only used it a few times for German Dutch and French. They tried to teach me German at school and the English language contains a high percentage of French words, so I found it a useful aid to understanding; not marvelous but OK.
Colin
Beatle:
Jack,
I do not know if your mother did the same thing or not but 18 years ago when I was writing to my filipina friend ( now my wife ) , I [strike]thought[/strike] I would impress Salve by writing a letter to her all in Tagalog. So I started out by buying a English to Tagalog dictionary. I first wrote down what I wanted to say to her in Englsih and then went word by word :From English to Tagalog until I had translated the whole letter into Tagalog. I put it in the mail feeling proud of myself and a week & half later I received a letter back from Salve, the first thing she said was \"I didn\'t understand a word you wrote\". ??? Well, that knocked me off my pedestal. I came to find out later, that our two languages are much different in how they are spoken.
I know some of you are saying \"why didn\'t you check this out on the internet first?\", Thats because there was no internet back then. :o
Ray
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