Translation

Instant Spanish Translator
$14.99
I received the product and used it immediately. Had problem linking it to Microsoft Word. But, DUH.... the instruction is in the front cover. Basically, you find the program where it is installed in "program list", right click, open up autoinsert. It seeks out your version of word, and install it immediately. To use it, you can type your word program, click on options, and translate. Voila... done.

Just like any other translator program going from one language to another, you have to be proficient in spanish to use them correctly, and edit them correctly. This program translate the sentences in a linear fashion. So if your sentence structure is complex, wordy, or poetic... It ain't going to sound right in spanish. Keep the phrases simple, short, and think in a linear fashion. Then you don't have to do too many edits.

Example: "I just saw Joe Smoe in my office." might be translated that I just cut up Joe with my chainsaw!!. You just say, I say Joe - then it interpret it as the past tense of see. Not the present tense of SAW, to cut.

So, it is as good or better than many internet translator. But it is not for folks who do not have a good command of basic spanish vocabulary or grammar.

It is just a tool. If you want any better translation, pay for a real person to do it.

Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications
$28.95
This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory.
Jeremy Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages ? English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and English translations are provided. A wide variety of text types are analyzed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical text and a European Parliament speech. Each chapter includes the following features:

a table introducing key concepts
an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories
illustrative texts with translations
a chapter summary
discussion points and exercises.
Including a general introduction, an extensive bibliography, and websites for further information, this is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives a balanced and comprehensive insight into translation studies.

Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics)
$39.95
Translation:

examines the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, including semantics, functional linguistics, corpus and cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies and postcolonialism
draws on a wide range of languages, including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Arabic
explores material from a variety of sources, such as the Internet, advertisements, religious texts, literary and technical texts
gathers together influential readings from the key names in the discipline, including James S. Holmes, George Steiner, Vinay and Darbelnet, Eugene Nida, Werner Koller and Ernst-August Gutt.
Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Translation: An Advanced Resource Book is an essential textbook for students and researchers of English language and Applied Linguistics.
The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/041528306X/

The Translation Studies Reader
$49.95
Excellent textbook that helps to explain many of the different theories of translation, but it doesn't go into much detail on any particular one. Good first-step into the field of translation!