NOTIS

Language-Specific Resources

General

Acronym Finder

Lexicool
A portal search engine dedicated to locating dictionaries and glossaries on the Web.

Yamada Language Center
Features a comprehensive list of language resources on the Web, including a font archive. 

NEW! Webverbix
Online conjugation tool for 102 languages.

Arabic

Ajeeb English/Arabic Dictionary
There's an English interface as well at http://dictionary.ajeeb.com/en.asp

Al-Misbar
Arabic & English translation dictionary, as well as an Arabic translation engine.

NEW! Arabic Language
A site that partners with commercial sites to offer information and services in Arabic.

Chinese

Zhongwen.com
A rich collection of Chinese characters and culture. Has a link to a stroke counter.

NEW! Croatian

NEW! englesko hrvatski i hrvatsko engleski rječnik
A fast-growing English - Croatian and Croatian - English online dictionary with more than 180,000 entries.

Czech

Macintosh Czech Fonts and Keyboard Drivers
The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages site has Apple's TrueType Central European fonts and also some special keyboard drivers for greater ease of use when typing CE fonts on a Mac running standard US or Western European system software.

Dutch

NEW! Dutch Language
A site that partners with commercial sites to offer information and services in Dutch.

woordenboek.pagina.nl
And not just English & Dutch!

French

ATA French Language Division

ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary
From the University of Chicago. Contains about 75,000 terms.

Centre international pour le développement de l'inforoute en français

Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1694-1935)
De A à onglette.

Dictionnaires électroniques
From the services linguistiques centraux section française de Suisse.

Equine Multilingual Dictionary
Abridged Online Edition: English / Français / Español / Deutsch.

French Language Links
A comprehensive listing of sites and terminology sources for French language specialists.

French verb conjugation

New! Gears Terminology Glossary
This German, English, French and Italian glossary is a collection of the most important terms used in gear geometry and in particular cylindrical gears

HAPAX
French Resources on the Web. 

The Internet Dictionary Project
The Internet Dictionary Project's goal is to create royalty-free translating dictionaries through the help of the Internet's citizens. The lists of English words and their translated counterparts are made available with no restrictions on their use. Currently available: Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Portuguese.

Liste et glossaire de termes médicaux

Minitel network
The groundbreaking French service lives on on the Web.

New! Shoe Glossary
English, Spanish, French and Italian glossary published by the CTC (Centre Technique Cuir Chaussure Maroquinerie) in Lyon, France.

New! Tanning Glossary
English, Spanish, French and Italian glossary published by the CTC (Centre Technique Cuir Chaussure Maroquinerie) in Lyon, France.

Termium
LE grand dictionnaire électronique canadien anglais-français, français-anglais. Unfortunately, this site is mainly for ordering it, not for using it. They do, however, provide a few freebies on the site, including glossaries. 

German

ATA German Language Division

Equine Multilingual Dictionary
Abridged Online Edition: English / Français / Español / Deutsch.

New! Gears Terminology Glossary
This German, English, French and Italian glossary is a collection of the most important terms used in gear geometry and in particular cylindrical gears

The Internet Dictionary Project
The Internet Dictionary Project's goal is to create royalty-free translating dictionaries through the help of the Internet's citizens. The lists of English words and their translated counterparts are made available with no restrictions on their use. Currently available: Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Portuguese.

Meyers Lexikon - Das Wissen
Search in the Brockhaus.

Martin Ramsch's German/English Bookmark Collection

Multilingual dictionaries
An award-winning site, heavy on German references.

Neue Rechtschreibung
Take the Crash-Kurs (or is it Crashkurs?) to find a download from Duden, the keeper of the official German language.

U-FORUM
Deutschsprachiges Internet-Diskussionsforum zu Fragen der Berufspraxis. Listserver: (listserv@twh.msn.sub.org), Diskussionsbeiträge: (u-forum@twh.msn.sub.org).

U-JOBS
Für den deutschsprachigen Markt relevante Übersetzungsaufträge aus aller Welt. Listserver: (listserv@twh.msn.sub.org), Diskussionsbeiträge: (u-jobs@twh.msn.sub.org).

Xipolis
German encyclopedia project: search Brockhaus, Meyers and over 1.5 million articles.

Greek

Bible Study Tools: Fonts
Greek and Hebrew fonts for Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 and Mac.

NEW! Translatum
A Greek-centered 'vortal' (that's avertical industry portal) geared toward Greek translators.

Windows Greek Language Support
Step-by-step directions on taking advantage of Windows 95 multilanguage support. 

Hebrew

NEW! ATA Middle Eastern Languages Division (MELD)
During the 43rd ATA Conference, the creation of a new ATA division, the Middle Eastern Languages Division (MELD) was discussed. As its acronym suggests, MELD will be designed to serve as a nonpolitical forum welcoming participation from all translators and interpreters working in the languages of this region. For more information or to volunteer, please contact coordinator Haleh Vakhshori at eztranslations2@yahoo.com

Bible Study Tools: Fonts
Greek and Hebrew fonts for Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 and Mac.

Hungarian

English-Hungarian Dictionary
From MTA SZTAKI. 

Italian

New! Gears Terminology Glossary
This German, English, French and Italian glossary is a collection of the most important terms used in gear geometry and in particular cylindrical gears

The Internet Dictionary Project
The Internet Dictionary Project's goal is to create royalty-free translating dictionaries through the help of the Internet's citizens. The lists of English words and their translated counterparts are made available with no restrictions on their use. Currently available: Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Portuguese.

Languages and Translation
One person's collection of useful links and resources for translators. Recently, the author decided to concentrate on Italian. Several links to other translation-related sites, with information of interest to localizers.

New! Shoe Glossary
English, Spanish, French and Italian glossary published by the CTC (Centre Technique Cuir Chaussure Maroquinerie) in Lyon, France.

New! Tanning Glossary
English, Spanish, French and Italian glossary published by the CTC (Centre Technique Cuir Chaussure Maroquinerie) in Lyon, France.

Japanese

ATA Japanese Language Division

Honyaku
An online gathering place for Japanese translators.

Japanese/English dictionary (EDICT)
Plus a database of each Kanji character (KANJIDIC), Japanese/German, and some related glossaries. There are also downloadable versions of EDICT machine-readable dictionary and KANJIDIC including computer codes.

Korean

New! A special interest group has been formed to explore the possibility of establishing a Korean Language Division within the American Translators Association. If you are interested, please subscribe to the listserv by sending an email to ata-Korean-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Portuguese

ATA Portuguese Language Division

New! Confluências - Revista de Tradução Científica e Técnica
An e-journal of scientific and technical translation from and into Portuguese.

The Internet Dictionary Project
The Internet Dictionary Project's goal is to create royalty-free translating dictionaries through the help of the Internet's citizens. The lists of English words and their translated counterparts are made available with no restrictions on their use. Currently available: Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Portuguese.

Russian

ATA Slavic Languages Division

Fingertip Software
Slavic Software & Accessories: Syrillic Support, Proofing tools for MS Word 2000, even key labels for your keyboard.

New! Multitran
A highly-rated Russian and English dictionary resource. It refers unsolved challenges to sokr.ru for you.

R. Michael Conner's Russian & Cyrillic Resources
An experienced Russian translator shares his resource list.

Russian and Russian/English dictionaries
A list of links to more dictionaries.

Yamada Language Center's Russian Fonts
Loads of MS Windows and MacIntosh fonts.

Spanish

ATA Spanish Language Division

Diccionario panhispánico de dudas

Equine Multilingual Dictionary
Abridged Online Edition: English / Français / Español / Deutsch.

The Internet Dictionary Project
The Internet Dictionary Project's goal is to create royalty-free translating dictionaries through the help of the Internet's citizens. The lists of English words and their translated counterparts are made available with no restrictions on their use. Currently available: Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Portuguese.

InTradES
The Web site for the New York-based SpanSIG houses an online directory and features Apuntes, a Spanish-language translation newsletter.

Medline Plus
Oodles of monolingual medical information with links to español dictionaries.

Shoe Glossary
English, Spanish, French and Italian glossary published by the CTC (Centre Technique Cuir Chaussure Maroquinerie) in Lyon, France.

Spanish Language Links
A comprehensive listing of sites and terminology sources for Spanish language specialists.

Spanish Slang

Spanish Translating Mailing List
Subscribe by contacting Miguel Lerma via email at mlerma@math.utexas.edu.

Tanning Glossary
English, Spanish, French and Italian glossary published by the CTC (Centre Technique Cuir Chaussure Maroquinerie) in Lyon, France.

Swedish

ATA Nordic Language Division

Cecilia Falks hemsida
Information för översättare

Lexin svensk-engelskt lexikon
Swedish-English Dictionary

Thai

AbcThai
English or German to Thai editor with translation aids built-in.


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