Can you please find me an English to Spanish translator?

Here you go

Thanks.

That poor darling child. I’ll tell you about him when I get home.

If you don’t find what you want on that, reverso.com is a good translation site.

Thanks @janbb.

OMG. I did PreK. So the aids brought the class in, about 15 3 and 4 year olds. Told them to sit on the carpet. I noticed one boy, really cute, really quiet, but oh, he looked so stricken it just tore at my heart strings. I asked about him. The aids said he doesn’t speak English.
Oh dear.
And it’s only his second day.
And at that I felt like I’d been punched in the gut. School’s been in session for almost 2 months….. The most important thing in the world to kids that small is uniformity, knowing what to expect. And his whole world was just blown all to hell in the last 2 weeks.
Then the tears started running down his cheeks, but he wasn’t making a sound. It was heart breaking. I motioned for him to come up, and I put my arms around him to console him as best I could.
I was at my wits end trying to figure out how to communicate with him to give him some semblance of control, you know? I finally got a tiny break and threw out the SOS to your guys.
In the end we got through it pretty good, and by the end of the morning he was much more relaxed. And when he finally smiled (I had him count the kids in class in Spanish!) it made my day.

Thanks you guys. It was a life saver.
And I. Feel. I’ve. Been. Hit. With. A. Truck.

Barnes and Noble has Spanish-English dictionaries.

Have you tried Google Translate? I think there’s an app for your phone also.

@janbb Great site, that Reverso!! Thanks!

I liked the one @rebble provided because it spoke the Spanish. I can only fumble around with trying to pronounce the written word myself. Poor kid had enough to wade through without teaching me proper Spanish!
I had 3 problem kids too. They take up a lot of time. And the rest…well it was like dealing with a hoard of 4 year olds!
I’m beat.

Oh, I just remembered. If you have an iPhone, you can ask Siri to translate! Just do a long press of the Home button, and when Siri comes on, say, for example, “How do you say ‘where is the bathroom in Spanish?’” Let go of the button, and Siri will say it in Spanish. Much easier than using any of those other apps and websites.
If you have an Android instead of an Apple product, I’m pretty sure it will have a similar feature. Maybe some Android uses can chime in.

I love reverso, and most online websites have the ability to translate spoken word semi effectively.
Am I freaking out or are there two of you?

Skype does voice translation

Oh, the one means I’m communicating via my phone @Magical_Muggle. For some weird reason I couldn’t log in with my existing information so I had to make a whole new account.

Thanks you all.

In the afternoon I had yet another non English speaking kid, plus he was a little on the slow side. At one point I was chatting with the kids, who were on the carpet, trying to keep them preoccupied while the aids were getting something ready, and we started talking about our favorite color. The kids “took turns” telling me (HA! There is virtually no such thing as “taking turns” with that age group!) then I went over and sat next to the Spanish speaking kids, and via the translator was able to ask him what his favorite color was. He pointed to the color blue on an area of the rug. :D And he smiled.

I woke up this morning with a sinking heart, though. It hit me that the morning boy, who really grabbed my heart, would be walking in today, maybe expecting to see ME again. Hell, it was his second day. For all he knew the regular teacher was the sub and I was the regular teacher. We became such good friends. Now I wished I thought to grab Mom as he was leaving, and ask her to explain that today he would be back to his “regular” teacher.
These are the things that bug me at night when I can’t sleep. “I should have…”

I have friends who are way, way, way into bilingual education. They taught in bilingual schools out of college, and when they moved to the suburbs and had kids they successfully lobbied to get a bilingual program in the local elementary school.

Meaning before the first kid was born, they started lobbying so the program existed when the he reached school years later. Fanatical bilingual advocates.

Anyway…the reason I bring this up is that they harnessed support from two directions. The whitey white white Anglo parents who wanted their kids to be fluent in a foreign language, and the immigrant families who wanted their kids to get a good start while their English improved.

Total win/win. They throw all the kids together and flip back and forth between English and Spanish. The Latino kids aren’t falling behind in math, etc. (non-language subjects) for lack of participation. The English-only kids very quickly become comfortable in Spanish.

That sounds really great. I have long thought that they should start teaching Spanish in Kindergarten. I felt SO sorry for this kid. He had not one other person in that room that he could talk to.