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Some Interesting Observations in ICanLocalize Mobile App Localization
The most popular languages The most popular translation languages for mobile apps are French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Italian. We hardly have any projects that doesn’t include at least one of them. Simplified or Traditional Chinese? When translating to Chinese, we’re asked which Chinese variant to choose. There are about 1/2 billion people speaking both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, so it’s […]
Tourism and Travel Industry: The Importance of Localization
Why is localization a key point in the tourism and travel industry? What happens when a website is originally created in English? If we consider that the native English speaking market is just a small percentage of the whole market – “One out of four of the world’s population speak English to some level of […]
The Importance of Transparency and Project Ownership
Google “translation” or “localization services” and you will be faced with pages of results to browse, leaving you none the wiser on which service provider you should contract for your needs. So what makes a translation portal different from a translation agency? First and foremost, a portal primary aim is to offer matchmaking services to […]
Localization: Is reaching 1 in 5 good enough?
So you have spent weeks or months on your project, working hand-in-hand with your marketing team as well as all other departments involved from HR to the Board – not forgetting your Web Developer – to finally give birth to your little gem that is your Website. And today you’ve just read this very interesting […]
Our Policy on Test Translations
One of the lessons I’ve learned when I started selling things (some time ago), is that you need to encourage your clients to show they’re serious, just like they expect you. Being serious means they can spend money. So, how do you reconcile the constant requests for “free test translations” with the need to get […]