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The web as a dictionary: Linguee.com (EN/DE) Thread poster: Noe Tessmann
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Dear colleagues,
I just stumbled upon this site and I found it astonishing useful and it seems to give good results. Part of the ressources are bilingual webpages of the EU, but there seems to be much more.
What is Linguee?
With Linguee, you can search for words and expressions in many millions of bilingual texts in English and German. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.
Maybe... See more Dear colleagues,
I just stumbled upon this site and I found it astonishing useful and it seems to give good results. Part of the ressources are bilingual webpages of the EU, but there seems to be much more.
What is Linguee?
With Linguee, you can search for words and expressions in many millions of bilingual texts in English and German. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.
Maybe you want to try out and share your impressions.
Kind regards
Noe
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Susan Welsh 
United States
Local time: 06:34
Russian to English
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| So far, so good | Apr 10, 2009 |
I tried it a bit this afternoon, and liked what I saw. Seems like a terrific idea--but need more experience with it.
Thanks for the tip!
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Thank you for sharing the link.
The website is very useful. It is good to see that the website has a large number of phrase entries.
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Anne-Marie Grant (X)
Local time: 11:34
French to English
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I found it recently and it looks very promising.
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Verena Schmidt (X)
Germany
Local time: 12:34
English to German
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This tool is absolutely terrific, I discovered it a few days ago and was surprised about the amount of translations in different contexts. The quality of the results seems to be good so far.
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Noe Tessmann
Local time: 12:34
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | Intelliwebsearch | Jun 3, 2009 |
Hello again,
it can also easily integrated into Intelliwebsearch. So the results are only a mouse click away.
Regards
Noe
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| Too good to be free | Jun 3, 2009 |
I agree it looks very good, but suspect it will be paying when beta phase is finished.
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Anne-Marie Grant (X)
Local time: 11:34
French to English
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I just wish there was a similar version for French-English.
Linguee is really useful - I'm always recommending it to people.
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Noe Tessmann
Local time: 12:34
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | Linguee also within Google results | Jun 4, 2009 |
Hello,
I don't think that we'll have to pay for it, maybe we'll get some ads. The last days I find more and more Linguee pages within the normal Google results.
Regards
Noe
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| More languages? | Jun 4, 2009 |
Great tip, Noe, but I hope they include other languages soon enough, as already commented.
Thanks for sharing,
Ivette
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| Great resource but... | Jun 12, 2009 |
Being curious I just tested it randomly with a very common word: "geben" - and what did I get?
Some really good results but also things like "do" ("Wir fordern keine personenbezogenen Daten von Kindern an, sammeln diese nicht und **geben** sie nicht an Dritte weiter." becomes "We **do** not ask children for personal data, nor **do** we collect personal data or forward it to third parties.")
The translation itself is correct but why (in this and many more cases, have a... See more Being curious I just tested it randomly with a very common word: "geben" - and what did I get?
Some really good results but also things like "do" ("Wir fordern keine personenbezogenen Daten von Kindern an, sammeln diese nicht und **geben** sie nicht an Dritte weiter." becomes "We **do** not ask children for personal data, nor **do** we collect personal data or forward it to third parties.")
The translation itself is correct but why (in this and many more cases, have a look at the examples yourself!) should "geben" be "do" in the English version? I'm wondering where they got this from...
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Noe Tessmann
Local time: 12:34
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | Do do or not do do | Jun 12, 2009 |
Charlotte Blank wrote:
Being curious I just tested it randomly with a very common word: "geben" - and what did I get?
Some really good results but also things like "do" ("Wir fordern keine personenbezogenen Daten von Kindern an, sammeln diese nicht und **geben** sie nicht an Dritte weiter." becomes "We **do** not ask children for personal data, nor **do** we collect personal data or forward it to third parties.")
The translation itself is correct but why (in this and many more cases, have a look at the examples yourself!) should "geben" be "do" in the English version? I'm wondering where they got this from...
Nevertheless. thanks for the link!
Hello Charlotte,
Linguee isn't meant to be a dictionary and by the way nobody looks up the word do which can mean literally everything. I use it mainly for multiple word phrases and it gives sometimes good results from human translations.
Regards
Noe
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José Raeiro
Portugal
Local time: 11:34
English to Portuguese
| Intelliwebsearch | Oct 2, 2010 |
Noe Tessmann wrote:
Hello again,
it can also easily integrated into Intelliwebsearch. So the results are only a mouse click away.
Regards
Noe
Does anybody know of a tool like intelliwebsearch but one that searches all the sources and organizes the results in only one easy browsable window?
That would be a great time saver.
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Emma Goldsmith
Spain
Local time: 12:34
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
| linguee in more languages | Oct 2, 2010 |
Linguee has expanded from EngGerman and now also offers:
EngPortuguese
EngFrench
EngSpanish
These languages had been promised a long time ago, but they finally came out this Summer. Chinese and Japanese are in the pipeline.
I find it quite a useful resource.
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If you need a similar service for almost any other language pair, try
http://mymemory.translated.net
It's pretty much the same concept with more of a TM focus, rather than a dictionary focus. E.g. you can upload and download TMX files and the autoidentification of the translation is less advanced. Unfortunately, the search engine in mymemory isn't that great, but hey, it's free.
[... See more If you need a similar service for almost any other language pair, try
http://mymemory.translated.net
It's pretty much the same concept with more of a TM focus, rather than a dictionary focus. E.g. you can upload and download TMX files and the autoidentification of the translation is less advanced. Unfortunately, the search engine in mymemory isn't that great, but hey, it's free.
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