Do any of you know of a good french on-line dictionary?

The reason I ask is I'm going to write a Beauty and the Beast fanfic

I'm not sure. I had to use one when I wanted a French word translated, but I don't remember the address!

I've used http://www.google.com/language_tools and http://www.freetranslation.com/ to help me with my Spanish homework, but online translators aren't reliable, especially if you know nothing about a language. I'd suggest trying to get a dictionary from the public library, or hunting down someone who speaks French. The community http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=multilingual may also help, but I think you might need an lj account (which are free) in order to access it.

As always, Sarah, you come to the rescue :lol:

i know of a good Swahili one and a latin one, but French...
I'd ususally just type in "English to French translation dictionary" in a google search...

I'd go with the mulitilingual community. They are very helpful, and were set up to help with fanfics.

Bablefish is pretty unreliable, too. <_<

Yes, online translators only really work if you know something about the language and have a real live dictionary in front of you. The multilingual community would be better.

Ta

*Typhoon nods as well*

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Here's a good translation tool, you can translate up to 150 words into many different languages.

http://dictionary.reference.com/


this one is a good one

machine translators are good if you're only looking for a single word. They aren't good if you're looking to translate a piece into some thing that sounds natural.