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gerefan2
May 13th, 2012, 05:20
Anyone know of a RELIABLE free Thai translation website?
I have tried Google Translate, and other websites that show up on a google search, and they dont appear to give sensible translations.
Putting the same Thai script into two or three different sites including, Google Translate, always seems to give a different, and usually incomprehensible, translation.
Any ideas?

RichLB
May 13th, 2012, 09:17
This is most probably not what you are looking for, but for on word translations I've found www.thai-language.com (http://www.thai-language.com) the best.

christianpfc
May 14th, 2012, 05:09
As I speak basic Thai, I don't need a translation website, I only use online dictionaries, http://www.thai2english.com/ and http://www.thai2german.com
Depending on what you want to translate, there might be slang and misspellings, which I can recognize, but a translation program will treat it as unknown word. When Thai friends use online translation (easy to recognize, as most sentences make no sense), I quickly change to Thai.

colmx
May 14th, 2012, 05:44
Neither the bing or google dictionary seem to be able to translate this one:

р╕нр╕вр╕▓р╕Бр╣Др╕Ы

I presume its some sort of slang... but it seems to be quite common on facebook?
Google always transalates it as "I."

Any of you cunning linguists any ideas?

AKAHagrid-old
May 14th, 2012, 07:50
...р╕нр╕вр╕▓р╕Бр╣Др╕Ы...

р╕нр╕вр╕▓р╕Б = "Yahk" = Want (as in want to do something, not as in want a drink)
р╣Др╕Ы = "Bpai" = Go

Therefore:

"Want to go", as in "I want to go with you".

(Source: http://www.thai-language.com/dict)

christianpfc
May 15th, 2012, 05:56
Google always transalates it as "I."
Unbelievable, but true! I just checked.

Check again: if you move your mousepointer over the "I." and click it, it shows several possible translations, among them "Want to go.".

In this case, thai2english is better as it separates the words and gives possible translations for them.