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I was able in the past to do that, but I can't find how anymore.

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All I had to do is to click in the "Translate" button and the URL was updated. The instant translation doesn't update the URL.

The URL format is:

http://translate.google.com/#origin_language_or_auto|destination_language|encoded_phrase
or
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=destination_language&text=encoded_phrase

If you want to translate a webpage, use:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=destination_language&u=http://example.net

destination_language must be a language code, like en for English or pt-BR for Brazilian Portuguese. You can also set a value for sl (source language) instead of "auto".

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Just go on Google Translate and paste the URL to translate in the left box. Select your target (and source) language and click on the resulting link in the right box.

You will be redirected to the translated website in the desired language. The URL can be shared with others to share the translated website.

Because the translation URLs are very long, I tend to shorten them with http://goo.gl/.

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Here's another alternative that works if you wanted to share the link on Facebook for instance:

/translate.google.com/#origin_language_or_auto|destination_language|encoded+phrase+connected+with+plus+symbols

Example http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/С+днём+рождения!

This link, when clicked would take you to the Google Translate page, auto detect the language, and translate it from Russian into English. The "+" symbols are needed between the words in the phrase to be translated to insure that Facebook includes the entire phrase in the link.

For your convenience, here's a list of language abbreviations used by Google Translate:

The following table contains a recent list of languages supported by Google Translate.

No. Language Name Native Language Name Code

1 Afrikaans Afrikaans af 2 Albanian Shqip sq 3 Arabic عربي ar 4 Armenian Հայերէն hy 5 Azerbaijani آذربایجان دیلی az 6 Basque Euskara eu 7 Belarusian Беларуская be 8 Bulgarian Български bg 9 Catalan Català ca 10 Chinese (Simp.) 中文简体 zh-CN 11 Chinese (Trad.) 中文繁體 zh-TW 12 Croatian Hrvatski hr 13 Czech Čeština cs 14 Danish Dansk da 15 Dutch Nederlands nl 16 English English en 17 Estonian Eesti keel et 18 Filipino Filipino tl 19 Finnish Suomi fi 20 French Français fr 21 Galician Galego gl 22 Georgian ქართული ka 23 German Deutsch de 24 Greek Ελληνικά el 25 Haitian Creole Kreyòl ayisyen ht 26 Hebrew עברית iw 27 Hindi हिन्दी hi 28 Hungarian Magyar hu 29 Icelandic Íslenska is 30 Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 31 Irish Gaeilge ga 32 Italian Italiano it 33 Japanese 日本語 ja 34 Korean 한국어 ko 35 Latvian Latviešu lv 36 Lithuanian Lietuvių kalba lt 37 Macedonian Македонски mk 38 Malay Malay ms 39 Maltese Malti mt 40 Norwegian Norsk no 41 Persian فارسی fa 42 Polish Polski pl 43 Portuguese Português pt 44 Romanian Română ro 45 Russian Русский ru 46 Serbian Српски sr 47 Slovak Slovenčina sk 48 Slovenian Slovensko sl 49 Spanish Español es 50 Swahili Kiswahili sw 51 Swedish Svenska sv 52 Thai ไทย th 53 Turkish Türkçe tr 54 Ukrainian Українська uk 55 Urdu اردو ur 56 Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 57 Welsh Cymraeg cy 58 Yiddish ייִדיש yi

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