I am buying a part from a guy in Germany , and I need to ask him in German " How much is Postage?" Can anyone translate that for me. Also the sentence " Do you ship to Australia"
Thanks

try here mate
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt 

all (former west) germans up to at least their mid 30's (possibly a lot older) had to do 3 or 4 years of english at school, so the chances are he will speak at least basic english. i only met 2 people that couldn't hold a full conversation in english. most i talked to spoke at least 3 languages fluently + bits of others (it was rather embarrassing having to admit i was basically monolingual).

Thanks for the link to Babelfish solved my German problem.

Kannst du mir bitte sagen was der porto nach Australien (von Deutsche Post) ist?