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Can anyone tell me the best way of translating text into french?

I have an email which I want to translate but I'm not sure if I should just translate it sentence by sentence or if there is a website that might translate the whole text for me Answers Appreciated =] I have an email which I want to translate but I'm not sure if I should just translate it sentence by sentence or if there is a website that might translate the whole text for me Answers Appreciated =] Thanks for the answers given BIG Help =D Forget about the above thing! Lol Thanks for your help I think im sorted now =D

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1. I believe the belwo website can help you, if you like i could help you translate.
2. There is such a thing online called bablefish or something like that... it is a translation tool but not sure if my spelling is quite right. Google it and see if it finds it. Good Luck!!
3. google can translate it for you
4. Well I'm fluent in French and translate emails and letters for people and stuff like that so me would be one! lol and on Your Google toolbar there's a language translator thing. Or Google "translate into french" and just about any of these websites would do the trick.
5. just a warning about translating websites - the sentence you are translating may not mean the same thing as if you translate it literally. So if any thing sounds a bit weird or not completely in keeping with the sentence as a whole then the translator has got it wrong, ( they do literal translations). You can get human translations on websites and i am sure banks translate things for you but they take longer.
6. Only use automatic translators to translate to English. Doing it the other way around will fail.
7. Subscribe to SDL Desktop Translator. You type in the English, select it, click on English to French and it gives you an automatic translation. You can also select a professional translation if you want it to be perfect. I never use babelfish or any other free online sites because their translations are so literal and sometimes downright ridiculous. SDL will enable you to translate well into other languages, you just have to select the language you want. PS: SDL are not perfect, so you have to read them through and correct the odd error.
8. Hire a translator. The going rate is 8 Eurocent a word.