Hi Jennifer,
You can turn off on-the-fly translation by bookmarking the following
URL:
http://translate.google.com/?otf=0
Best,
Josh
On Nov 21, 2:23 pm, Jennifer wrote:
> I agree. This new version is terrible. I am a native English speaker
> learning German, and sometimes when I am reading in German, I don't
> understand a sentence even if I know what all/most of the words mean
> so I've always just put it into Google to get the jist of what the
> sentence means. But now it is so difficult to type in the sentences
> with the stupid translator immediately translating everything. Not
> only is it extremely annoying that the page keeps "refreshing" (I am
> on a netbook so there are lots of pauses while I type in the translate
> box while the page 'refreshes' as it translates). During the time the
> page refreshes (about every second) if I am typing, half the word is
> gone because it was trying to translate what I had just typed.
>
> I don't mind the text being at the bottom now instead of the right,
> but I'd say I'd prefer it be at the right so if the string of text I'm
> translating is long I don't have to scroll down a lot. I have also
> used the translator as a method of looking up single words and would
> just sort of create a list as I went until the list got so long that
> the translator highlighted all the text, and then I'd just delete it
> when I typed the next word. But now I cannot do that unless I want to
> scroll all the time.
>
> I do, however, like the "contribute a better translation" area (though
> why would I be using Google translate if I could translate it
> better?), and I like the function of being able to flip-flop the
> languages you are working with.
>
> But the damn immediate translate is really obnoxious. Perhaps you
> could have a function that turns it on and off?
>
> On Nov 21, 10:44 am, Ira Shchupak wrote:
>
> > Dear Staff,
>
> > I have been using the translator for months now, and I it is not
> > because I got used to the old version that I am dissatisfied with the
> > new one. The translation appears on the screen even before I choose
> > the needed language pair, based on the pair that was there from the
> > last time I used it, the text "jumps", which is extremely
> > uncomfortable for the eyes. Plus, I somehow get the feeling that the
> > translation quality worsened, though I am not sure it is not my
> > imagination.
>
> > Thank you
