Our website, JamesMcGillis.com announces instantaneous translation
into any one of twenty-eight international languages, plus a “text only”
version.
Languages include Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese,
Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish,
Swedish, Tagalong, “Text Only, English” and Turkish.
Admittedly, there are large populations not represented here. For instance,
575 million people speak Hindi or Bengali as their primary language.
Only the lack of an adequate web-based English-to-Bengali (or Hindi)
translator prevents their inclusion. Still, the languages represented
at https://jamesmcgillis.com cover 3.5 billion (or 51%) of a current worldwide population of 6.8 billion souls.
In order to try our translator, simply click on the
flag that represents one of the languages listed above. Within a few
seconds, you will notice a “redirect” of your browser to the selected
translation website. Moments later, you will see the current webpage
rendered in your selected language.
With
some browsers, you may click from language to language, but with
others, you may have to select the “Back Button” on your browser to
reload the original English language version, from which you can then
access any other language flag.
If you are a native speaker of any listed language,
this should make our website easier to read. If you are a language
student, you now have an interesting way to compare the meaning of any
particular word or phrase in another language.
Please keep in mind that all such translations are only as good as their vocabulary
and syntax editors can make them. In checking several of the different
languages, we found that the common internet vocabulary word “link”
translated as “golf course” in several languages. Although we try to
write in simple and direct language, we are sure that bilingual
individuals will find some interesting or humorous translations.
If you try our language translator, we would love to
hear from you about your experience. To do so, simply click on the
“Comments” link at the bottom of this post or the “Email” link you will
find there, as well.
Author's Note: After I published this article,
"Google Translate" made my custom translator obsolete. Now you may
translate any article on this website from English to any other popular
language. To do so, simply click on the "Select a Language" drop-down
menu at the top of this page. Then, select a language and start reading
this website in the language of your choice.