Guest Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Does anyone know any websites that have simple words such as days of the week, number names, hello etc - need them translating in french, urdu, arabic, chinese polish. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacquieL Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Babel Fish does European languages, and if you Google for sites translating English to Urdu or Chinese, for example, there are quite a few that can do this. Isn't the web wonderful and however did we manage before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiny Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Isn't the web wonderful and however did we manage before! I know!! I would be lost without it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanne Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 If you have spare money (I know, how often do we in childcare have spare money!), you could look at MantraLingua. They do books & resources in many languages, what we're currnetly wanting are some of thier posters: Days of the week Numbers and more. If you need resources because you're in a setting with lots of children & parents/carers with other languages, they're very useful; if you want them to show diversity, they could be a little pricy to get lots of stuff. I've found some of their books for schools in our library - we found 1 very useful. It's a book in English & 1 other language (we had Portuguese) giving words & phrases in English, the other language & the pronouciation for the words. It gave days of the week, times, hnady phrases to use with parents, etc. Do you have any support from an Inclusion Team at your LEA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inge Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Could use here for some ideas or Sparlkebox has some in Polish which I have used, Had another site but cannot find it at moment! Inge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyMaz Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I've just been looking at woolly's suggestion for customisable role play signs from another thread and noticed Google do a translation service. When you get to Google, click on 'more' and then 'even more' and go down to translation. You can put in a key phrase, choose what language you want to translate from, and to by using drop down boxes and click on 'translate' and away you go! Never even knew it was there - so thank you, Woolly! Maz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thanks everyone going to get going on the different websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rea Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I bought a board book at the Ed show 'My first Arabic alphabet book' Iman publishing. It reads from right to left and has the Arabic writing for each letter with the sound written on each page. I used to buy Arabic newspapers too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 How practical is it to use google and babel fish to translate forms, and how reliable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beau Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Personally I wouldn't use it in this way, as you can't be sure exactly what it might say! You really need someone who can write both languages for any official forms. If you want to while away a few moments then play the translating game - type in a phrase to translate and then translate back. Sometimes it can come up with hilarious results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MaryEMac Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 We enrolled a child from the Czech Republic and a teacher friend sugested this site. www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk ( sorry can't do a link) Then click on Language of the Month. You can then find the language that you want and it will show a video of a child saying a list of words. That way you know how to pronounce them. Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mundia Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 here is the link to newbury park, its very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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