Can you recommend a good online translator for me?

I have a totally Spanish speaking student. No English. At all. I copy things in and out of Google translate, and we’re muddling along. He has completed an entire Skills for Living course by translating the lessons into Spanish via the translate feature in the teaching program. He got a B! Then I enrolled him in a new course and he has completed the first unit with a high B.

However, when we try to communicate, sometimes it’s a challenge to decipher what he’s saying after I translate his Spanish to English, and I’m sure it’s the same for him.

Here is a perfect example. Today I got a message that said, “maestra solo quiero que me ayude con el projetc: vamos a viajar se encuentra en spanish 1 unit 1si melo pudiera dar en espanol gracias.”

I “translated” it and I got “I just want to master to help me with projetc: Let’s go in Spanish is 1 if 1 unit in Spanish melo could give thanks.”
It is not usually THAT garbled so I went to his desk to try and ask, “Huh?” FINALLY he was able to convey to me that the translate feature in the teaching program wasn’t working for that lesson, so he couldn’t read it. So I sent the whole lesson into Google translate, then copied the Spanish results into Word, then printed the lesson off for him.

On the way home today it hit me…of COURSE the translate feature is disabled in that course…because I put him in SPANISH!! They’re trying to stop the English speaking folks from cheating! But the result is, HE can’t read it! How he got through the first unit with a high B is beyond me!

Anyway, is there a better translate program out there?