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[Drew345]

Anyone know of a decent on-line Korean to English translator.

I have used this one in the past and it works great for Chinese and Japanese,: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
But it yields nothing but meaningless junk for Korean to English.

Example, where ever there is the verb ending: 군요; it adds "army bedspread" to the end of the sentence.

I recognize the problem; the verb and adjective endings in Korean also look like separate words to a dumb computer. And all the other meaningless junk comes because the syllables of a Korean sentence can mean totally different words depending on how you group them (with only one way meaningful).
But still, a decent translator should at least recognize verb endings.

And yes, I am studying Korean, maybe one day I wont need the online translator.

So, anyone found one better than babelfish.

Thanks,
Drew

[hanguker]

I don't know if it's any better, but I use Google Translate. It ain't perfect, though.

http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=ko|en

[Drew345]

Hmmmm, it is different anyway.
Google recognizes the names of the cities.
And it translated ㅎㅎㅎ as "chuckles", so at least someone did put some thought into that.
And there are no "bedspread"s for all the 요's
Google is certainly better.
Thanks,
Drew

[Dukey77777]

Google allows users to "suggest a better translation." I'm hoping it doesn't become like wiki in this sense.

I also use www.zkorean.com

but I'd be interested in hearing what other people use....

[IncognitoHFX]

I use Google translation. It doesn't translate word for word like Babelfish, it looks for common sentences and phrases in it's database and tries it's best to translate coherently.

It's great for formally written stuff, like newspaper articles and professional emails; but it's terrible for anything subjective or poetic. You could always try and learn Korean