DICTIONARIES, ONLINE TRANSLATION, VOCAB, ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Your students know how to use these - DO YOU?

Online Translation Interfaces

  • First - Problems with Machine Translation and notorious embarrassing mistakes
  • Read and try the five online translators
  • Google translation and the google toolbar
  • FreeTranslation.com and commercial software from Transparent Language.
  • Instant Translation from Alta Vista Babelfish. Cut and paste. Helpful, but with accuracy problems.
  • Online text translator from Heisoft - choose the languages
  • Reverso translator and PROMT's online translators of text, email and webpages

    German Dictionaries

  • LEO Dictionary: German<->English (130,000 entries and German Morphology Browser.
  • Langenscheidt's Taschewörterbuch and Fremdwoerterbuch Online.
  • Englisch <-> Deutsches Worterbuch (interactive

  • June 10, 2003 - even more German dictionary and translation links
  • Easton dictionary collections for German
  • Translator Kevin Fulton's collection of specialized dictionaries and vocabulary
  • German to English dictionary for use with assignments. FL for Travellers
  • Good updated list of dictionaries from CASLT
  • Complete list of various dictionaries from Peter Golz.
  • Excellent collection of dictionaries, reference materials, slang, dialects and specialized vocab.
  • Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache: dictionaries, grammars, info, texts, Sprachspiele
  • Verb conjugator for all languages - Verbix.com
  • About.com: Various dictionaries, online translation, dialects, slang, interesting items.

    Dictionaries for German and other Languages

  • All Languages from Go Translators: choose language, enter text
  • Links to online dictionaries and glossaries
  • Easton dictionary collections for German and Spanish with topical vocab
  • Online dictionaries grouped by Language
  • Dictionaries indexed by language
  • List of dictionary and vocab links

    Text to Speech Synthesizers

  • Cool! AT&T's interface with various languages
  • Acapela text synthesis
  • Cepstral - German and other languages. Online demos and Cepstral Freeware program
  • Syvum - online text to speech
  • Read Please - freeware program with German option
  • SVOX speech synthesizer
  • Links to many speech synthesizers - check for language availability
  • More links to speech synthesizers and Sprachsynthese - German links

    Return to German Resources Page. Last updated June 11, 1998. and Feb 1, 2007