How do I know the right translation
When using the translator on this site a lot of different ways on how to say the phrase or sentence pops up when I type it in to see how to say something or if I said something right but sometimes there will be two of the some results and one different how do I know which one is correct?
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Use any translator as a dictionary and you do the translation.
Else, it is like you wanting to develop muscles but let other people lift the weights, but you walk up to them and that action, in your mind, is more than satisfactory to you.
Guess who is going to develop those muscles.
Like any translator, this one is imperfect. The only surefire way to know which is correct is to carefully review each word. Remember, the translator only gives you a suggestion. You are responsible for making sure it is correct!
Hope this helps!
Only through experience and exposure to the language will you even begin to tell if the translator is close. That is the real value of this forum. The participants share their experience and knowledge of the language. And we are fortunate to have a few native speakers who help us out. There is both experience and exposure to be gained here but only if you stay and apply yourself.
Best of luck and I hope to see you around.
Hello Sc,
Welcome to the SpanishDict forum 
When using the translator on this site a lot of different ways on how to say the phrase or sentence pops up when I type it in to see how to say something or if I said something right but sometimes there will be two of the some results and one different how do I know which one is correct?
As Annie rigtly said, you can't tell! I encourage people to have a go or attempt to answer their question or post their best attempt but because I don't have much confidence in online translator machines, at least not the ones most people use, I don't suggest/recommend that people use the machine translators here
I have come across more accurate apps on both my Blackberry and Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone which were available on Blackberry market (Rim) and Android
Navita translator was one of the better ones it used Google, Bing and another search engine translator but I don't think it was Microsoft!.
Using language translators can never be a genuine subsutitute for making the effort to learn a language properly and there are so many resources here on SpanishDict which are completely free: Paralee's 60 mini-videos in Spanish (admittedly only about 30 for learning English) the grammar section, and the forum where you can ask questions. In addition , you can arrange a Skype session with a Spanish native for free and help each other learn your reciprocal languages! 
Finally, a friendly warning: the more you allow yourself anyone allows them self, to become dependent on machine translators the slower your rate progress will be in learning Spanish/English! They cannot ever take the place of learning to communicate effectively and confidently in any language;..they can simply be one tool which should be used sparingly in the full recognition that they not infallible!
I hope this helps
You don't. Machine translations are very clever but they translate word by word and are not always what a person would say. They are getting better all the time, but I hope they will never make us humans redundant. As your Spanish gets better you will be able to see which translation is likely to suit your particular sentence.
