This service from AltaVista will translate words, phrases and sentences. It allows you to view web sites in other languages and will translate other web sites to English. It also will translate AltaVista search results. There is a "world keyboard" for typing in characters in non-English text. Languages translated to and from English include French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

This program will attempt to identify automatically the language of a sentence, phrase, or word of your choosing. Enter some text into the field above. Check or uncheck the languages that you know are possible or impossible, respectively. Then hit "Submit", and the list of languages will be reordered to reflect the identifier's decisions, with the most probable language appearing at the top. It attempts to identify words or phrases from the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Afrikaans, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Portuguese, Icelandic, and Latin. It does NOT translate them, but by identifying the language, you can then decide which translator to use.

FreeTranslation.com - http://www.freetranslation.com/

This online machine translation service has a few things going for it that make it the first choice for this type of translation. Rather than doing word-for-word translating, it attempts to translate entire phrases. It's very fast. It also completely translated a Web page with more than 15,000 words. In contrast, AltaVista's Babel Fish translated only about the first 1,500 words and Go Translator did about 4,400. Remember, though, machine translation is just to provide a very basic comprehension of text or Web pages. Currently translates English to French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Norwegian and French, Spanish, and German to English.

Go translator service - http://translator.go.com/

This service from the Infoseek search engine folks (Go.com) translates Web pages and text you can type or paste into the search box. Translates to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. Similar to AltaVista's Babelfish but it will translate a lot more text than AltaVista's service.

This is a freely-accessible database, compiled without any form of public contribution. It's updated and corrected on line by their network of professional translators. The dictionary currently has 7.580.560 entries (total for all languages). LOGOS will translate to and from English, French, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, German, Italian, Turkish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Slovenian, Romanian, Latvian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Latin and more.

YourDictionary.com - http://www.yourdictionary.com 
Has ten language dictionaries which are English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Thai plus 200 more! It also has over 30 multi-lingual dictionaries, translates between European languages, language identifiers and ELR. The Endangered Language Repository is the sanctuary for endangered languages on the World Wide Web.