chinook Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Hello all, I have a student who is going to Peru with the AFS program. I need to translate some docs from English to Spanish, or rather, I need someone to help me. I'm in the deep South of Thailand so popping into a local translation agency is out of the question...please...can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Ever heard of Google. http://translate.google.co.th/?um=1&hl=en&q=plasterboard%20coving&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1016&bih=563&wrapid=tlif133334689348421&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iT#auto|es|I%20need%20to%20learn%20a%20lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewlyMintedThai Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Do NOT rely on Google translations! They modtly turn out nonsensical. There is a Spanish language school at Mahathun Plaza in Bangkok. Maybe google them and see if they offer translation services, then scan and email your documents to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draftvader Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 There is also the Bangkok Spanish group on meetup.com (sorry, my Spanish is only good for conversations) Posted with Thaivisa App http://apps.thaivisa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somtamnication Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 PM me with the list. Is it long? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovelomsak Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Spanish is a very easy language to translate to english so google should be able to do quite well. Give google at least a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Do NOT rely on Google translations! They modtly turn out nonsensical. There is a Spanish language school at Mahathun Plaza in Bangkok. Maybe google them and see if they offer translation services, then scan and email your documents to them. I agree with you to a point as in Thai and say Japanese but Spanish is pretty much OK and not much of a problem with my Spanish friends in emails, it is easier for then to rattle out an email in Spanish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travel2003 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Spanish is a very easy language to translate to english so google should be able to do quite well. Give google at least a try. How will he know if the result is good? ;-) Kind of risky isn't it, to translate documents with a machine (program)? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draftvader Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Spanish is a very easy language to translate to english so google should be able to do quite well. Give google at least a try. I really can't agree with this statement. Even with my mediocre control of Castilliano (Northern Spain and Latin America) I find the translations very different to the conversations I have with my friends. If you are translating documents then you need to make sure there is no ambiguity. Sadly Spanish, like Italian, is not a language with a thesaurus. Curiously this makes it even harder to get right for document translations. Best done properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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