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Hola,
Welcome to yachtForums. Unfortunately, my spanish is poor but you should find good information in the forums. Good luck.
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Welcome Pacman.
Hey computer wizzes, is there some kind of program that a forum could use to translate other languages into english? Such a program could open the Forum to a much bigger population. I know there is such that individuals can use although I've never tried. Luckily most of the world is smart enough to be multilingual unlike myself.

Welcome.

Its not perfect, but Google Translate is probably the best program for such a conversion.

Edited to add: I spent 15 minutes messing with the translator and Pacman scooped me.

The translator did well. with these corrections: did not find. and I know a beautiful girl here whom I have asked to help me learn English.
As you can see the translation is close enough for us to understand with no problem.

Hello Pacman There is a lot of good info you can get from this forum.
Nice to have you joint us.
Scott

Perhaps he meant that he wants to learn English to impress the beautiful girl. And does not mean that she will help him learn English.

(I know, that was poorly written. I was thinking of the translation software)

Either way is fine. Girl's do love to teach guys though, so I'd use it both ways.

Welcome Pacman. Don't let the language barrier prevent you from asking your questions. I find the members here are more than wiling to overlook any difficulties you may have in writing your question. Most of the time they will get the general idea. Your english was more than understandable. Remember, here in the states we have the greatest public education system in the world. Which means we all write prefect.

Put another way, Americans tend to mumble and otherwise massacre the English language so we have a lot of practice trying to figure out what the person we're talking with is saying.

Hi Pacman and welcome,

We have a link to Google's translator on the front page of YachtForums. It's in the 'Quick Links' module, located at the top-right of the page.

I spent over a year tweaking a translation software program to work with YF, but when Google's translator came along, I abandoned the program. The Google translator is the best I've seen. It will convert 42 different languages. And it will do this for raw text, a web page or a complete web site.

Although it is not perfect, it still conveys most of the relevant information within text. As such, flash or static images can not be translated.

Pacman, su Ingles es muy bueno, so escrita mas..es mejor de la Spanglish yo oy aqui en Miami; no te preocupes...
There is BabelFish on Altavista which allegedly translates languages, although my Venezuelan clients tell me that "The main engines are due for an overhaul" turns out more like "You eat the grass of my father's lawn", so cuidado, amigo.

Photografias es un buen idea por ese Forum.

Mi dos centavos.

Aye I missed the original avatar...Was that a beatiful girl..?

If so, uh feel free to send it to me and the phone number as well..Not being shy here....

Don't worry about the language thingy too much, English is my second language as well.

(It should not be, America was discovered by Norwegians in 1013 and has been one of our colonies ever since..The language should be Odin's, not the Queen's.. )

I think we have all managed to mangle it up pretty well, thank you. Remember English is the Lingua Franca of the Seas and the Air.

Gibberish is universal, just try reading an electronics manual in a foreign language.