website translation

[Frenchsalesadministrator]

Is your website translated in another language (or you planning to do it)?

What languages?

 

[workinprogress]

Always a good idea to have a welsh option as welsh speakers do make up a large portion of any UK market...granted not as much as english speakers

 

[darren atkinson]

Is your website translated in another language (or you planning to do it)?

What languages?

It is something I have considered more than once, the issue I have is that our items sometimes require technical support and I'd be reluctant to want to take on the headache of this with a lot of foreign language customers.

I am seriously considering having a side line website for just a few of our products which could be multi-lingual. I'd probably cover Europe initially so German, French and Spanish would be the first 3 I'd go for although we do get interest from the Netherlands a fair bit and Switzerland as well.

 

[Frenchsalesadministrator]

anybody else?

I am looking to get some work in website translation (I am a French native), so will be looking for partners for other languages.

But for now I would be interested to know what businesses/industries get their website translated.

Thanks

 

[MarkMandel]

I worked on projects translating to Welsh and other languages for Self-Checkout and POS.

They key thing is not to use automated transalation like google translate.

I hired professional translators for the project who quoted many mis-translated words like, Cystitis instead of Cyclist!:redface:

In case you don't believe me then just take any phrase in English, use google translate to another language, then translate the result back to English...

English to Danish
This is something that I like but not something you would like.
Danish back to English
It's something I like, but not something you want.

Not quite the same.

 

[ILilja]

I manage translation and copywriting with the online accounting software called e-conomic and have been an integral part of the - sometimes difficult - births of most of our foreign language websites.

I believe the right approach to translation or localisation depends on your line of business, purpose as well as your budget.

For the most part, our websites are localised (as opposed to directly translated) to Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Spanish, French, Finnish and Polish. We also run variants in English (UK and Global) as well as for Swedish (Swedish-Swedish and Swedish-Finnish).

Ideally, we would not translate our websites at all, but use local language copywriters with a good sense of the appropriate country's online marketing strategies and build each website from scratch, targeting each country's audience indivually.

 

[opieoils]

For my purposes, Google translate has been enough for me to understand how to use web sites in languages that I don't speak. I have successfully bought bus tickets on a French web site and a CD from a Danish web site without having any Danish knowledge and basic school French, most of which long since forgotten.

 

[strakertranslations]

The company I work for developed ShadoCMS a multi-lingual content management system, they've since transformed themselves into a web-based translation provider. If you want to see if they can help, check out strakertranslations.com

 

[rishabh]

Language translation of website or any applications is very common now a days, basically the business which deals in targeting other countries show go for it. The website should cover the main languages from where they fetch Max. business.

 

[martinbailey]

There are some great 'AJAX' plugins that harness Google translate and will actually translate a web page live! You just select the language from a dropdown or icon and a cookie remembers the selection, passing it to all subsequent pages.

I use a plugin for a Joomla site to do this.

 

[Eid_khashan]

Google translate is nice but sometimes its not good enough because it shows word to word match meaning which is actually quite bad sometimes. i have seen many translator sites but i used Ek Translation and i must they are good at translation they have professional translators so you dont have to worry about anything.

 

[tecsys]

Most CMS or blog based websites can be translated on the fly using some special plugins. If you have international traffic on your site, it indeed is appealing to your visitor if you can serve your content in his native language.