No problem. Google added the swap button you're asking about not long ago. Click the ">>" arrows between the language buttons. I don't think deriving the default language from your location would be very useful to me either. :)
(checking your interface language would be reasonable for "To" but again not useful to me) On Sep 5, 1:33 am, Andrew_E2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Zabeus > > This is exactly what I needed to know. It frustrates me no end that > it defaults to Spanish->English. > > Saying that, I'm going to have to have one set up for Ja->En and one > for En->Ja. Couldn't google add a "swap" button so you can them > translate in reverse? > > Also, it's in our google account what our interface language selection > is, so it would be reasonable (and very easy) to default to this and > the language of the location you are in (again, easy!), with the swap > button there. So, if I was in France and went to google translate it > would default to English -> French (Swap?) > > Does anyone else this this would be useful? > > Andrew > > On Sep 4, 7:56 pm, Zabeus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't address your question about why the default is Spanish->English, > > but have a suggestion that might help. Update your bookmark > > > to Google translate by adding "langpair=auto|en" to the URL, like > > this: > > ->http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=auto|en > > This will make the defaults for both website and text translation > > Default->English. You can set the "langpair" field to any combination > > of language codes too. I use Translate for translating Japanese to > > English, and have a bookmark buttons on my Firefox bookmark bar for > > quick, convenient JA->EN translation. > > > Z. > > > On Aug 29, 11:41 pm, Behrang Dadsetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear Google Translate Group members, > > > > I use Google translate everytime I need a quick translation from > > > Chinese to English. Mostly I use the textbox to translate some text > > > rather than a whole web page. What I describe here relates to both > > > text translation and web site translation. > > > > When I visit translate.google.com it automatically forwards me > > > tohttp://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en# > > > This could be due to my language preferences set-up in the browser or > > > cookies set-up by iGoogle or other that know I prefer to see english. > > > That's just fine. > > > > When I look at the drop-downs just below the textbox and the URL > > > text fields, I see invariably: > > > "Spanish" => "English" > > > > Why "Spanish"? I am sure plenty of people would need such > > > translations, but there are plenty more people who would need to > > > translate from other languages. > > > > I wonder why you would not use "Detect language" >> "English"? > > > > Is the Auto-detect not clever enough to figure out when the > > > translation source is spanish? I am sure it is a difficult process and > > > more an art than a science, but I love it so much when Google gets the > > > right defaults for me, I wish it could do so on this one too :) > > > > An alternative would be for google to use one of its dozens of > > > cookies to track what language I tend to translate from. Would that > > > not be a better solution than forcing me to switch away from Spanish > > > every single time I use the translate tool? > > > > Many thanks! > > > Behrang Dadsetan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Translate" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
