The program's interface is fairly basic but neat and tidy, laying itself out like a word processor except with two text windows, one for the original text and the other displaying the translated version. Usage is simply a matter of pasting in the text (document or Web page) you wish to translate and clicking a button.
Dealing with bigger chunks of text, Personal Translator performed admirably, producing easily readable news stories from a selection of foreign newspaper sites. It wasn't always perfect, however, and it can be a little sluggish, sometimes taking up to twenty seconds to complete a translation (which an online site typically deals with in just a couple of seconds).
It can find translations to a term including several examples for context usage
Translate words in multiple languages using the StarDict dictionary data format.
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