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I just found the easiest way (for me) to translate websites that are in other languages. Simply copy the website link then go to your browser and search google translate, paste the link you copied and click the arrow! It will take you back to the English (or whatever language you choose) version of the website! 🤗
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Google Translate is great!
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There are various things like this most people don't know Google can do for you.
Have you ever tried to use Google to work out your complicated math?
try copying and pasting this math problem to google
( 100 / 33 ) / ( 32 * 11 - 3)
see:
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Also, if you use Chrome as your browser, the website will automatically translate into English.
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I think whether or not Chrome browser automatically translates - depends on certain settings and options
Here is a page in French
I do believe Google Chrome can translate it
but when I go to the site - it comes out in French - not English
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9n%C3%A9alogie
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that is logical- in the url the site is french (fr.wikipedia)...
play around with urls and learn to manipulate them to your benefit :-)
I did that with creating Ancestry links for sources in FamilySearch. You only need a small portion of the url to get to an image. The rest of the url has to do with your search query. For example, last night I found this record: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1091/d1p_11331133/4348909?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdbid%3d1091%26gsfn%3dvictorine%26gsln%3dpaquet%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26uidh%3ddfc%26redir%3dfalse%26msT%3d1&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=6f054c9f2e021cc27c36d5c8acfc3db3
Long url... but I only need this part to link to the image:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1091/d1p_11331133
If an image is not correct, or if I search the record and find more info a few (or many) pages before or after, then the actual image number is located at the end of the url, but you can delete most of the stuff in between. In that case, I delete beginning with the original image number (in the case above I would delete beginning with d1p... all the way to the last image number, which might be something like d1p_11331138 and leave that in place of the first image number). Thus I would turn
into
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1091/d1p_11331138 notice how in the url above it says "imageId="
learning a few tricks about reading what is in the url can be helpful. So, yes, if the url or link has "fr." then the site would be in French. If you take out the fr the system puts in eng. instead. Généalogie is still in French so Wikipedia says it can not find it. Changing Généalogie to Genealogy solves that problem and the site is then in English.
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logical in what sense?
yes - indeed that was a French site - The statement that was made was that Chrome would automatically translate a non English page into English - which it did not.
the fr vs en - controls what page is being accessed in what language. I intentionally chose a French page to see if Chrome would automatically translate into English.
yes - the portion of the urls indicate which language is being used for such page.
and yes there are many options inside the url that one can tweak for one's benefit.
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logical in the sense that if you have fr. in the url you are going to the site that is written in French. Why would you expect otherwise?
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understood
normally that would be exactly what would be expected - as you state
However - the whole point of this string of comments - originally posted by X24MOM
is how GOOGLE CHROME can (under certain circumstances) automatically (on the fly) translate a web page from one language to another.
X24MOM - in her experience - shared that on her device non english pages were being translated (on the fly) into English
to show that this is not always "automatic" - I brought up a French page to see if my browser would automatically translate it into English
for me it did not - but I am pretty sure there is some option/setting that can be chosen - so that Chrome does translate a age as X24 MOM indicated
so in summary - the discussion was - - under what circumstances does CHROME translate (on the fly) a non english page into english
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x24mom often uses her cell phone. Perhaps the cellphone does this better than our laptops?
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for more information about setting and options for Google Chrome Translate
see:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
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true- I did stray from the original topic and I apologize.
I tested what I know about chrome and foreign sites, and visited one. I got a pop-up asking me if I wanted to translate the page. Several options including always translate (the language), never translate (the language), never translate this site, change languages, and simply the translate button, which when clicked on, translated the page. So... if your page came up in French, had you previously determined to never translate French or that site? Or do you think something else is going on here?
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TY @Carolyn Webber 🤗 I think what @JS010 JS010 was trying to do was just share the fact that another way to translate things is through the chrome browser. You are correct that use my phone for almost everything lol... and for me, copying the site adress and pasting into google translate (which I just google the word translate) then clicking the arrow takes me to the site translated to the language I understand (English) 😊
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auto translation is an option setting on the browser- if the setting is set it works.
the copy and paste is another option - and it should work no matter how you are accessing it.
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I love that different techniques are being shared. The best way for any of us to translate is the way that works best for us. I'm surprised at how many people don't realize that you can use your phones camera, when using Google Translate, and literally watch the text change to another language right before your eyes. Or letting someone speak into the microphone and seeing their text turn to a different language. We are so blessed with the technology that we have available now.
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also you can just ask "Siri" "How do you say [this ] in [language]
like "How do you say I love you in Spanish?"
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Yea but in my case I was trying to help another member, and the website I wanted to check was all in Italian so asking Siri wouldn’t have really helped me at all 😊
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yes - I was just pointing out other cool ways of using technology to overcome the language barrier.
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Thank you X24mom and Dennis Yancey. As usual, your comments are very helpful.
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This is a great discussion. Thanks @X24mom X24mom for explaining that you are using the phone and Ipad. This is something we should probably ask new members! It is different on the phone and Ipad compared to the computer. One thing I have learned is that when you are on the computer in Chrome, you can right click anywhere on the page and "Translate to English" comes up in the menu for me, I would think if someone is in a different language, it would say "Translate to their language."
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