Bilingual Text with Microsoft Word
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 3:00 am
Bilingual text with Word Document Translation.
Word Document must be connected to the internet to get machine translation
Sample:
https://youtu.be/ObsnbuaJ3O8
Pick Any song you like, audiobook with text, etc.
Get the lyrics of the text you want to translate.
In this case Italian Aria, Barber of Sevilla.
Copy the lyrics text in an online text tool, for example https://onlinetexttools.com/
Tool: Remove All Empty Lines
Tool: Add Line numbers
Paste the numbered line text into a word document.
Select all the text
On the word Ribbon menu:
Insert
Table
Convert Text to Table
Number of columns: 1
OK
Add two columns to the left of column one.
Now you have a table with three columns.
Column One has the Target Language, Column Two, and Three are empty.
Microsoft Word Menu Ribbon:
click: Review
Click: Translate
Click: Translate document
Paste the translation on the automatically creater new word document on Column two.
Select column two and change font to 8 and light Calibry
Select column one and change font to 14 and Calibri
Select the complete table
On menu ribbon in word, go to Table Design, Layout
Click Convert to Text
Tick Paragraph Marks
Then, you should have your bilingual text with machine translation.
No table.
If you want, you can create a video with the music and the screenshot and post it on YouTube as a private video for you to review from wherever you are.
See the following Youtube video.
https://youtu.be/ObsnbuaJ3O8
Word Document must be connected to the internet to get machine translation
Sample:
https://youtu.be/ObsnbuaJ3O8
Pick Any song you like, audiobook with text, etc.
Get the lyrics of the text you want to translate.
In this case Italian Aria, Barber of Sevilla.
Copy the lyrics text in an online text tool, for example https://onlinetexttools.com/
Tool: Remove All Empty Lines
Tool: Add Line numbers
Paste the numbered line text into a word document.
Select all the text
On the word Ribbon menu:
Insert
Table
Convert Text to Table
Number of columns: 1
OK
Add two columns to the left of column one.
Now you have a table with three columns.
Column One has the Target Language, Column Two, and Three are empty.
Microsoft Word Menu Ribbon:
click: Review
Click: Translate
Click: Translate document
Paste the translation on the automatically creater new word document on Column two.
Select column two and change font to 8 and light Calibry
Select column one and change font to 14 and Calibri
Select the complete table
On menu ribbon in word, go to Table Design, Layout
Click Convert to Text
Tick Paragraph Marks
Then, you should have your bilingual text with machine translation.
No table.
If you want, you can create a video with the music and the screenshot and post it on YouTube as a private video for you to review from wherever you are.
See the following Youtube video.
https://youtu.be/ObsnbuaJ3O8