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I can convert that into Canadian for you, eh?
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Be careful with Babelfish, though, sometimes their context is out of place.
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Ditto what Nikki said. Those sites are not accurate...at all. Find a native speaker to translate, unless you're fine with the translation sounding like Tarzan, or worse.
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Doug..You would be better off to pay a professional translator to do the job for you.
Depending on whether the target audience is Spain or Mexico there will be differences.
Same for Quebec or France.
I couple of years ago I had to do a bi-lingual jobsite sign for a contractor. I sent the copy to Mario from this website and to my sister-in-law who is a native French Canadian speaker. They both came up with different wording. In the end, since the sign was going up at UWO, I asked their language department to do the translation and it was different again.
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Thanks everyone. It is the website translations that we are having trouble with. I am hoping to find native people. We are looking for France not Canadian French. We had a university do it but we are still having trouble with the structure..
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ask OP he's a native...or at least he loks like one....It's after 12 Noon, so he should be out of bed....me learn to talk english with babelfish, babelfish good. me hungry now.
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