Looking for a translation program

[Arnobius]

ANyone know of a reliable program for translating Japanese text/web pages to English? I've tried Easy Translator 4 and Systrans 5.0, but both have a 100% crash rate. I'm running WinXP Pro with SP2 and IE6.

[Jasdero]

If you get the Firefox browser, you can download the extension that allows you do that.

Firefox --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Extension --> https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=181&vid=938

[Arnobius]

If you get the Firefox browser, you can download the extension that allows you do that.

Firefox --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Extension --> https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=181&vid=938

Thanks. I'll look into it.

[Jman]

Hey, that program looks awesome *runs off to download*

[Retten]

Yeah it works really good I have been using it for awhile myself I recomende it!

[Chichiri]

actually, it sucks. I just tried downloading it and it's incompatible with the latest version of firefox (which you should all be using).

I particularly don't like online translators. The longer the sentence, the weirder the answer. This is particularly true with Japanese.

What I recommend? Taking a class =P.

Oh, I guess if you're just looking for mass translations fast, it's good. Otherwise a japanese-english dictionary (and a kanji dict) would be your best friend

[Arnobius]

actually, it sucks. I just tried downloading it and it's incompatible with the latest version of firefox (which you should all be using).

I particularly don't like online translators. The longer the sentence, the weirder the answer. This is particularly true with Japanese.

What I recommend? Taking a class =P.

Oh, I guess if you're just looking for mass translations fast, it's good. Otherwise a japanese-english dictionary (and a kanji dict) would be your best friend

Well, actually I have 2 1/2 years of Japanese and plan to continue independently. However, when dealing with JP sites, it's good to know what everything is saying before you fork over your credit card number on line, hence the question.
As for dictionaries, I do have the "Green Goddess" (Kenkyusha's $500 dictionary) and use Hadametsky and Spahn's unabridged kanji dictionary. I can do a lot with that. It's slow though and I'd like to have something that works on the fly though.

[BishounenCookie]

Googlebar, for internet explorer, will also translate (using babelfish, i think)

Babelfish is better than nothing I suppose.

Taking a class, huh. That reminds me that I signed up for JAPA-101 next semester. Frankly I wish I hadn't signed up, but I wasn't thinking too hard when I did I'd rather be continuing with Russian or something else. Oh well, I can't do anything about it now.

At the same time I signed up for Japanese, I also signed up for something called "Intro to Geographic Information Systems." I have no idea what it is, but I'm taking it, woohoo!