Alternative to babel fish
 

I find babel fish unreliable I often get an error message, here is an excellent alternative that even has drop menus to paste special characters in the text box.

http://translation2.paralink.com/

http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=en

is another one, a dictionary is probably your best bet though

The best translation site that I've found is at:

http://www.freetranslation.com

The above site is free but you can also pay for an exact translation.

I haven't checked the other sites posted yet, but I use:
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html