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| If you find your friend or someone who might know your friend and you need to correspond with this person in a foreign language, once again you are in luck if the target language is French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese. The same free AltaVista service that translates Web pages can also translate your email for you. |
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| Highlight and copy the text of the message in your email program. Go to the translation site (http://babelfish.altavista.com) and paste the text in the translation box. Then, click on the down arrow and select the language pair you want (e.g., French to English) and click on translate. |
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| Type your message in the translation box, or copy the text from a document of yours and paste it in that box. then select the language pair you want (e.g., English to French) and click on translate. |
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| Highlight and copy the resulting text. Create a new message in your mail program. And paste the text into that message. It should appear complete with all the necessary accents, even though your keyboard isn't set up for you to type with those accents. |
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