Google has a great little translation tool that you can install into your Google home page in seconds.

http://translate.google.com/translate_t#

Definitely worth checking out.

The thing that I really like aboutthe Google translator is that it remembers which language I want, so when I open my home page it is already set to English to German (or vice versa depending on which way I translated last time.)

Another simillar tool is Yahoo Babel Fish which is also very useful.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt