i have lots of thai friends on fbook, i am english. the translator which is powered by bing throws up the most silly comments on facebook so its obviously not working and translating what is actually being commented. can anyone advise if i should use another translator for FB or is there one ?

thanks

I find the best translating tool is my wife. Sorry its no help to you but its the only thing that i found that worked.

I agree though that bing translate on FB, its rubbish.

I wouldn't worry too much. All your probably missing is - what they ate, what they have brought or how much better they are than....... Bla bla bla.

You could always learn Thai and translate it yourself. It's good practice trying to work it out.

Cut and paste what you want to translate into Google Translate, much better than Bing.

Problem with FB chat is that many Thai's use abbreviated, purposely misspelled, grammatically incorrect or slang, and no electronic translators get that stuff right.

IMO All translater tools, whether they be Bing, Google or any other such thing are useless. They don't have the ability to identify the difference between singular vocab words and compound words, proverbs etc etc. I find it quite amusing actually seeing some of the translations that Bing/ Google come up with.

Yeah, Google translate is nearly useless for Thai. But there are translation pages specifically designed for the Thai language, which give alternate meanings for words as well.

http://www.thai-lang....com/translate/

or

http://www.thai2english.com/online/

are both excellent.

Edited November 15, 201213 yr by Rumblecat

Thai 2 English gets my vote too