English-Finnish-English Translator Online

Tonight I came across a webpage that has a demo version of an English to Finnish to English translator. I used it tonight to help compose a letter to one of my Finnish relatives. It helps if you already know some Finnish and English so that you can catch any mistakes in the translations, but it's particularly helpful for English speakers who have trouble remembering where to place all of the diacritical marks in the Finnish words. The demo will only let you do 10 translations of 60 characters or less a day, but that was enough for me to pen a nice short letter to my aunt using words I already knew plus spellings that I had to confirm in the translator. There are various software packages allowing you to buy the full version of the translator, but the package I wanted was too expensive for me at 89 Euros. Still, I might go for it one day as I try to increase the amount of Finnish that I write each year.

The English-Finnish-English translator can be found at this web address:

http://www.sunda.fi/eng/online_demo.html