AltaVista's Babel Fish translation facility provides translation from English to the following languages:

• Chinese
• German
• Japanese
• Korean
• French
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Spanish

Language translation is an extremely complex task.  It is important to highlight that this translation service should allow you to grasp the general intent of the original pages.  AltaVista does not suggest that Babel Fish will produce a perfect translation.  It should also be noted that you cannot get a good idea of the quality of a translation by translating the text back to its original language. The more translations a piece of text goes through, the further the resulting words may differ from the original.

If you wish to use the Chinese, Japanese or Korean translation options you will need to have the characters for these languages installed on your computer.  These are available from the Microsoft's on-line Downloads facility - to go there click here.

For more information about AltaVista's Babel Fish translation service please visit here.