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==Frengly==
[http://www.frengly.com Frengly] is a free and simple web service that offers translations between twenty-five different languages.
====What it can do====
Frengly allows for the translating of text between various languages.
====Use in classrooms====
=====Teachers:=====
* Improve communication within classes, especially if a common language is not shared.
* Teaching materials available to various audiences despite language barriers.
=====Students=====
* Have notes and assignments translated to their native tongue.
* Learning language aid.
====Effectiveness/Workflow====
* Teacher creates lesson package for students in preferred language.
* Students view the lesson plan and highlight with their mouse any text they do not understand.
* Right-click mouse and translation options appear, offering 25 different languages. Students select one and the highlighted text is translated.
* If a certain language is used often, students can right-click and go to “options” and set a commonly-used language.
* An “automatically translate” option will have all lesson packages and text translated to the designated language without the user prompting.
====Endpoint====
From a computer or any device accessing Sugar Labs, a user (teacher or student) requests a selection of text to be updated by highlighting and specifying the new language. Frengly’s Translation Engine returns the translated text in place of the original text.
[http://www.frengly.com/translationAPI Accessing the Frengly Translation Engine]
<code>http://syslang.com?src=fr&dest=en&text=Bonjour+monsieur&email=xxx&password=xxx</code>
* src: source language to translate from
* dest: destination language to translate to
* text: a piece of text you want to translate
* email: frengly account email, entered during registration (use username for older accounts)
* password: frengly account password
* outformat: format of the response [xml/json], not mandatory- default is xml
====Technical challenges====
* Implementation of SugarLabs to interface with Frengly.
* Bandwidth from Frengly server.
* Speed of ISP at user’s end.
* Proper Java runtime engine loaded at the Endpoint that requires Frengly server.
* Automatic translate option- user preference varies.
* User may prefer the option on only set specific pages instead of all.
* Whether automatic translate option will run on specified account or specified computer.
* Disabling option on specific pages.
* Translated language same for all pages or varied.