The AltaVista site doesn't allow for longer chunks of text now, like it used to. But it is still very useful. For serious translation, however, one must have a book of verb tenses to go along with it, for double-checking. And for diacritical marks, best type it in Word then cut and paste the text into the window. Without diacriticals it doesn't work properly--it doesn't make assumptions about their presence if you can't type them in.

SRS