0 Third Tutorial Activity (Translation Tool)......

Hello everyone....It's me, Azlan again. Today, me and my group partner, Hooi Theng have to translate a short document or text from Malay to English. So, we are going to use google translation tool to translate our short document or text. First, we will browse online to look for a short Malay text.

Malay version:
Gerhana matahari berlaku apabila kedudukan bulan terletak di antara bumi dan matahari oleh itu menutup cahaya matahari samada separa atau sepenuhnya. Walaupun bulan lebih kecil, bayangan bulan mampu melindungi cahaya matahari sepenuhnya kerana bulan dengan purata jarak 384,400 kilometer adalah lebih dekat kepada bumi berbanding matahari yang mempunyai jarak purata 149,680,000 kilometer.

Reference: http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhana_matahari

(The above paragraph does not belongs to us. It is taken from Wikipedia. Click the above link to learn more about "Gerhana Matahari").

So, now I'm going to use google translation tool to translate this paragraph.

Here is the English version:

Solar eclipse occurs when the moon lies between the earth and the sun is close by sunlight either partially or fully. Although in smaller, hypothetical month to protect sunlight as full month with an average distance of 384.400 kilometers are closer to earth than the sun has an average distance of 149,680,000 kilometers.

After translating this paragraph, we continue to translate some popular Malay phrases by using Google translation tool again.

Malay words (Before translation):

Selamat Pagi

Selamat Malam

Berhati-hati

Jemput makan

Dilarang membuang sampah merata-rata

Jangan bising

Apa khabar?

English version: (After translation)

Good Morning

Selamat Malam

Behati-liver

Invite eat

Littering prohibited everywhere

Do not noisy

Apa khabar?

After transating this short Malay text and Malay phrases, we think that this translation tool really helps us a lot when we want to do any translation works. We can save lots of time by using this translation tool. Although this translation tool brings lots of comfort and convenient to us, somtimes this translation tool just tends to translate the words directly without considering the grammatical rules. As a result, the phrases, sentences as well as the paragraph become weird and the meaning or content is totally different from the original version. Anyway, we should just thank those translation tools for helping us up........

Here are some links that will bring you to some translation tool:

http://translate.google.com.my/?hl=en&tab=wT#msen

(The most commonly used translation tool is Google translation tool, it has 56 languages available for translation.)

http://www.stars21.com/translator/malay_to_english.html

(The second translation tool is Star 21.com which introduced by my coursemate, most of them think that Star21.com can translate better.)