This little portable version of desktop Lingoes looks very promising: support for eighty languages, pronunciation of words, automatic translation and/or definition of selected words in documents or web pages are some of its most outstanding features.

However there are a few issues that let it down a bit. To begin with, the interface in Portable Lingoes is not exactly the paradigm of ease of use; the confusing design takes a while to get used to. Also, you can't help feeling a bit disappointed when you realize most dictionaries must be downloaded separately – well, at least they're free.

Once you get over these flaws, Portable Lingoes is a really handy tool, especially for those who frequently work with different languages. The program includes an extensive configuration menu and offers immediate results both in dictionary look-ups and translation tasks, which are powered by Google Translator.

Despite an initially confusing interface and the fact that you have to download dictionaries separately, Portable Lingoes is still a nice, handy online dictionary and translation tool.

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Multitranse is one of those translating applications, and one of the most completes I've seen – in terms of supported languages. Multitranse supports a total of twenty languages that you can freely combine with each other as source or target languages.

The first time you run the program you're presented with a short tutorial that shows you how easy is to use Multitranse. Then the only thing you have to do is writing the source text (or copying it from another app), selecting both the source and target languages and you're good to go.

However there's a bid downside to Multitranse and that is precisely translations themselves. I know automatic translators are far from good, but I've seen much better translations than these ones – and they're also generated by automatic apps.

Multitranse can be helpful when you need to understand the general meaning of a text written in a foreign language, but you shouldn't trust it much.

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Nowadays, using the Internet, translation tools have improved immeasurably converting huge amounts of text into understandable versions in another language (depending on what language we're talking about of course). Web Translator is a fully featured online translation tool that helps you translate web pages, web sites, as well as words, sentences and documents into another language.

The languages currently supported by Web Translator are English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It can translate from a diverse range of applications including Microsoft Word, Notepad, WordPad, Adobe Acrobat, Outlook Express, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Frontpage and more. The user interface bizarrely though is only available in a few languages - English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese.

The interface is very rudimentary and in this test version, you can only translate short amounts of text but it's enough to give you an idea of accuracy. The problem is that it doesn't really deliver results that are better than free solutions such as Google's online translator in which case, it's probably not worth paying almost $40 for the full version.

If your language is not supported by other online translators then give Web Translator a go, otherwise you might find other free solutions do just as good a job.

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Promt Translation Agent, is an easy-to-use translator with support for several different combinations between seven languages: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Russian. The program also lets you choose which kind of text you're translating, so that it uses the appropriate vocabulary field.

Working with Promt Translation Agent is as simple as typing text – or copying and pasting it from another application – into the program's Office-like interface and clicking on the corresponding button. Translation will be done almost instantaneously.

On the downside, Promt Translation Agent does have some important drawbacks. To begin with, text length is limited to 200 characters, which is ridiculously short. Also, the translation servers were down a few times while trying to translate text. However, the program works fine as translator for single words.

With Promt Translation Agent you can do instant translations between seven different languages – as long as your text is short enough.

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The big advantage of Translate.net is that it scans multiple translation sites for languages that you need to translate to and from. The good thing here is that you don't have to go online and tediously surf the net for translators and by using translators from different sources, you can much more accurate and better translations. The annoying thing however is that the program displays advertisements within the program based on the translation texts that you are searching on. However, the developers assure that Translate.Net does not collect any personal data or use any aggressive advertising techniques on it's users. One thing worth mentioning however is that this program is completely open source which means that the advertising feature may be possible to remove, or at least block, if you have some C++ programming knowledge.

A great solution for those that translate regularly although be prepared to be bombarded with adverts.

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IdiomaX Office Translator shows up as one more toolbar on the interface of Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Frontpage, Publisher and Visio. From this toolbar you can translate the whole document, or just selected text. In any case the translated text will be saved into another file. It's probably not the best idea in terms of usability, but at least it makes sure you never lose the original version.

IdiomaX Office Translator works with several types of dictionaries, each one of them specializing into a certain topic, and also supports a wide array of language pairs (English, Spanish, Italian, German, French) though the trial version only lets you test Spanish and English.

Other interesting extras include a verb conjugating tool and a direct access to look up words on an online dictionary.

With IdiomaX Office Translator you can translate between multiple languages directly on the interface of all Microsoft Office apps.

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In that case you can use a traditional dictionary o take a faster detour by launching GoNaomi. This app works as a dictionary for 39 different languages and enables you to combine them all in search of the perfect translation. Each language contains about 1,000 entries.

GoNaomi includes popular languages as well as other ones which are not so common, like Tagalog, Ukrainian or Belorussian. You only have to select your source and target languages and enter the terms you're looking for.

On the downside, the program is not embedded into the browser in any way (which would have been easier to translate online texts) and requires a restart every time you change the language selection.

GoNaomi is a fairly complete dictionary with support for quite a high number of languages, but which unfortunately fails to integrate with the browser.

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