Google Translate now speaks 51 languages , Official Google Blog (Aug 31)
Google added nine languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. This brings Google Translate to 51 languages and 2550 language pairs — including all 23 official EU languages.
Google Translator is well in the lead.
Bing has a translator - http://www.microsofttranslator.com/ with 15 languages.
Yahoo has Babelfish - http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ - 13 languages and 38 combinations.
Postscript Sept 3
Steve Bass has some other tricks for using Google Translator. View newsletter online and subscribe.
"If you regularly need translations from specific languages, use Google's 1-Click Translations button. A better bet, and the one I use when I land on Web sites in another language, is to have Google's Toolbar translate the entire Web page for me. In IE, click the Translate button. In Firefox, click the Translate button's drop-down menu, then select Translate Page to translate the page into your Toolbar's language. (Confused? Read Google Toolbar Help.) "
Posted by Gwen at September 2, 2009 11:45 AM