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Not on this site’s server. The text is passed to Google Translate and thrown away once the translation comes back: no cache, no log entry. Your translation history lives only in this browser’s local storage. “Clear history” or clearing the browser data removes it, and it doesn’t show up in another browser or on your phone. The text does go through Google to be translated, so don’t paste passwords, ID numbers or anything similar.

The translation is generated by Google Translate, and this site shows it as it is, without changes. Most of the time it matches translate.google.com. The models behind Google’s website and its API aren’t always updated at the same time, so a few sentences can differ.

5000 characters, the same per-request limit as the Google Translate website. Above the source box you can see how many you’ve typed. Anything beyond the limit can’t be pasted in; for a long article, translate it in several parts.

When the source language is set to “Detect language” and the detected language is the same as the target language (English to English, say), the result would be identical to the input and useless. In that case the target language switches automatically to the page language, and on this English page that is Spanish. To translate into another language, pick it in the dropdown on the right.

It’s the pronunciation given by Google: Chinese shows pinyin with tone marks, Japanese, Korean, Russian and others show a Latin-letter spelling, and Cantonese shows Jyutping. Not every language has one; languages already written in Latin letters, such as English, usually don’t show it.

This site allows one translation per second for each IP, so clicking repeatedly in a short time gets blocked for a moment; wait a few seconds. All visitors reach Google through the same server, and when there are too many requests Google refuses them for a while. The site then pauses for a minute before trying again, and the page asks you to try again later.

Yes. Your browser only talks to this site, and this site’s server makes the request to Google Translate, so it works even on networks where Google can’t be opened, as long as this site can be.

The 40 in the dropdown: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, English, Japanese, Korean, plus common languages of Europe, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East, and Mongolian. Google Translate supports more languages; only the common ones are included here. When the source language is “Detect language”, the detected language is shown in the dropdown.