Then you’ll want machine translation (MT) -- Here's the link for a free online translation service, Babel Fish Online Translator

In case you’re wondering just how good free translation is, take a look at the results of an experiment we ran on an article titled:

As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised (Yahoo!, 2011-12-14)

First, we ran a sentence from the article through the application to get a Japanese translation.

Looks pretty darn good, doesn’t it? And, it’s absolutely free to boot!

Of course, if you're Japanese, or fluent in Japanese as we are, you’d immediately contact a professional Japanese translation service. Let’s continue the experiment to see why.

Next, the Japanese translation generated above is translated back into English. In other words, the translation is

Simply reversed so we can see the quality of translation that your Japanese target audiences would see.

If machine translation produces professional quality translation, we should get the original English text, or something pretty close, right?

Instead, you get gibberish, as seen by your target audience.

Vendors, perhaps in recognition of its poor utility, promote their machine translation products as a “gisting” tool, to get the general idea of foreign language text. Let’s call it what is folks

Gibberish, pure and simple!

Unfortunately many folks mistakenly believe free machine translation is a substitute for quality translation by qualified professional Japanese translators. However, they don't realize the real damage they're doing to their brand. Click here to see some real world examples

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