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Your website should be accessible to all, shouldn’t it? Well it should if you intend on using it to generate profit or sell your products. If you are serious about generating revenue from your website then read on to find out why you need to translate your website in 2011. Languages of the Web...

With English still the number one language on the web with over 536.6 million English users in 2010 it is easy for designers to forget about other languages when developing applications for the web. Yet the web is a truly global medium, (according to internetworldstats.com) Chinese is the second lan...

Top tips from Global Voices on multilingual website design from proper keyword research to choosing the right domain.

The UK government are again calling for tougher language tests for new immigrants as costs associated with translation services in the UK have risen by over 40% in the last year, although there has been a plight to reduce the cost of translation services. Labour, the previous government of the UK la...

Yet again we are seeing examples of why it is so important to choose quality over value when choosing translation services. In the news this time a Prison in the UK made a major mistranslation in an information pamphlet for Russian inmates, instead of ‘Exercise Yard’ it had been translat...

Last week, Google increased its automated translation service by adding the ability to translate Latin to Google Translate. It is the 58th language to be added to the automated translation service, and is the only language that has no native speakers. Latin is no longer used in the modern world exce...

With over 6000 languages worldwide, it is estimated that between 500 and 1000 languages are spoken by only a handful of people around the world and that every year the world loses 25 mother tongues. With over 250 languages being lost worldwide academics have come together this week to hold a confere...

Have you ever wondered how many languages the European Union recognises as official spoken languages of Europe? Well the answer to that would be 23! There are 23 Official Languages in the European Union, these are made up of languages spoken the most in each member state. There are more member state...

Clay tablets containing strange dots and wedge type characters of the ancient Ugaritic language have baffled Translators and Archaeologists for several decades since they were discovered in the 1920’s in the port city of Ugarit. The Ugaritic language was used in Ancient Israelite and neighbour...

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