Machine Translation

Hello All , 
        How r u ? I guess so fine. I am writing my first letter 
to this group .Hope u all will coordinate. Here is the problem. First
,
what I want to do is "Machine Translation"(changing from one language
to another).This is the topic of Natural Language Processing and is 
also a lot concerned with speech.Lets see it from an example , suppose
I want to convert an english spoken words to german or any other 
language.First I will convert the english words to english text,then
translate the english text to german text and then from german text to
german spoken or speech .So , my question is that how can I convert 
the text of English to german text, can any body suggest me how can I 
do that , coz I don't think so I will be able to do so , according to 
my knowledge . So , help me . I have 2-3 sugesstions for that that it 
should be word to word rather than sentence wise . Kindly tell me as
soon
as possible . I will be very grateful to u for ur suggestions .I am 
waiting . One thing more , can u suggest me the best group for this
topic of Machine Translation. I am new to google groups . I think so
its the best.