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You've taken the time to learn French, German, Italian or Spanish! You've spent money on various self study tape courses! You've attended a language course abroad! Why risk loosing the language by not keeping it up to date? Why not join the thousands of intermediate and advanced language students on six continents who use Champs-Elysées, Schau ins Land, Puerta Sol, and Acquerello italiano to stay in touch with the languages and cultures they love.
However, only just over 15% of the world's population can communicate in English, with only 5% claiming it as their mother tongue. Therefore 80% of the world's population do not speak it proficiently and consequently have difficulty using it to navigate the web.
There also appears to be a statistically significant proportion of IT professionals who seem to be speaking English, but nobody really understands what they are saying :)
Translating your web-site to a foreign language is not only expensive, but fraught with potential problems. For instance:
If you do go down the route, make sure as much information in the chosen language is available on help or "frequently asked questions" pages. This will cut down on the e-mails.
There is a very strong case for some businesses to publish additional translated versions of their web-sites. For instance, when the Hyatt chain translated their Taipei hotel web-site from English to Chinese, the visitor numbers increased by 13 times. The same experiment with their German hotel sites produced only 4 times the amount of traffic, but still an extremely impressive increase.
You could also provide a link from your page to a translation service like Alta Vista's Babelfish. The link, when clicked, will automatically translate the content. The link could read something like "Click here for a rough translation of this page". Babelfish only provides translation for up to 5-10 Kbytes of text and internally served images do not appear on the page, but it should prove useful to some of your visitors.
One proviso: Information in a different language may alter the perception of the visitor. For instance they may perceive your product or service differently to those reading about it in English. You may become liable for any incorrect information on the site that helped them make a decision to purchase.
Click here for a rough translation of this page.
Copy the code for linking your page to Babelfish below, but you need to change the site name, the .com/.co.uk and the page name details:
I repeat, you should beware of software translators. Just use them as aids and do not rely on their accuracy. An example using Alta Vista's Babelfish to translate English to Italian is shown below:
I then translated "Il mio animale domestico trucchi e rotola sopra su sua la parte posteriore" back into English.
This resulted in "My domestic animal makes up and rolls over on its posterior part".
Conclusion: phone the circus!
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