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I've been good and tried to do a search, but nothing comes up. I'm going to Italy next week (oh, how I love saying that! ) and have been procrastinating learning the language.

I'm planning on bringing my N800 (and praying for WiFi while I'm there!) so was hoping I could find some sort of translator program that might work on the N800.

Any ideas?

Signed,
Master Procrastinator

I have been using the WhiteStork dictionary on my overseas travels.

For complete install instructions, see http://mdictionary.garage.maemo.org/userguide/

Here's a condensed version (and some notes of my own) that I have used:

The WhiteStork Multilingual Dictionary has been built with three modules, dependant of each other: WhiteStork Core (internal application management), WhiteStorkGui (graphical user interface) and WhiteStorkPlugins (parsing engines).

In order to install the application take the following steps:

1. Download the 3 binary packages from WhiteStork website -

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mdictionary/

2. Open the file manager on the N800 and install by double clicking on each of the downloaded files in the order they were mentioned above.

Download the dictionaries from

http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down

You will probably want both the English-to-Italian, and vice versa. Note that I never was able to figure out how to extract the files using the N800. I had to download the files on my Windows machine and use 7zip to extract the files. 7zip is like Winzip, but with support for some other formats. Download it here

http://www.7-zip.org/

NOTE on dictionary names - the files MUST be named "dict.xdxf". Also, the directories must NOT have any spaces in them.
Example (valid): English-Italian/dict.xdxf
Example (invalid): English Italian/dict.xdxf
Example (invalid): English-Italian/foo.xdxf

Once everything is installed, you should be able to open both dictionaries at the same time and do your word lookups.

Good luck!

Check out SDict Viewer or WhiteStork Multilingual Dictionary. They use different dictionary formats, but Italian dictionaries available are more or less the same and come from the same sources (it seems though sdict.com for some reason doesn't have Italian-English, which is available in XDXF used by WhiteStork...)

Thank you! I'll give it a whirl!

Thanks again, that worked like a charm and is EXACTLY what I needed.

I'm sorry for such a pretty girl being in trouble but I'm quite sure you won't find any wifi in italy... I'm italian and I travel for work all over italy, but so far I just find one hotel offering a free wifi, the others were all asking for connection (and it wasn't cheap, something like 6-8 € per hour!!) - let's say the ratio is 1:10.

You also have wifi covering the some service areas on the highways (where you can eat or get gasoline) but they are also for payment.

Your only hope is to be in a large city like Milan etc. and hope for some Fonero to share its line (like I do, but in a far smaller city)

Bye, Omar

I'm in Italy too at the moment, and wi-fi hotspots aren't exactly common. The situation has improved only slightly over the last couple of years.

Some hotels have workable wi-fi. Others have wi-fi, but it's close to impossible to use.. the other day I had to get my passport copied, forms filled out with all personal information, money exchanged, only in order to be allowed to buy a pre-paid scratch-card with a code for access to wifiaccess.it (which runs some kind of c*ap wi-fi hotel services).

In the end it didn't even work, I was online for a few minutes where I was supposed to receive yet another access code through email. Well, it never arrived, and what happened next was that the whole wi-fi network at that hotel was made unavailable to everyone.. you could connect, but the name server was unreachable. I got so disgusted by the whole experience that I won't try that service provider again.

But the food is still excellent!

Oh! Where are you? Maybe we can meet! (jus kidding, I'm quite busy this weekend so that I can not move from home.. )

Oh, you mean there's a specific reason why I am that bit more than 100 kg?

lol.. I'm near Rome, but on the move already, out of the country for a while. I'm just going to get some more of the excellent food first (one just has to be aware of what particular food is excellent in the different parts of the country). As for the weight.. nah, I'll say nothing!

@RisibleGirl: I'm sure you'll get a great time in Italy, even with limited wi-fi. As far as the language is concerned you can get a long way with just a Berlitz dictionary and ditto guide, at least for restaurants.

About the latter: There's no real correlation between price and quality, in the more expensive restaurants you're really just paying for the waiters' white outfit. Some of the very best food I've ever had was in some of the cheapest places (and they're usually called trattoria, osteria, pizzeria or some such, not ristorante).

(In the past the rule of thumb for eating was: If they take credit cards, avoid the place like the plague. These days it's not so black and white, but I live mostly by that rule still, out of habit. It works..)

You can used the spanish translation. It's very well. And I was using now. I think that you will like it very much. Hoped that everything is OK.