Webinar: Website Translation Disasters – And the Top 5 Ways to Avoid Them

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Greg Rosner, US CEO of Applied Language Solutions, will be presenting a Webinar full of tips on how your organization can develop successful foreign language websites.
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A sad day indeed as spammers go multilingual…

Diluted viagra?! Spammers have been using machine translation to convert their campaigns into major Eurpoean languages – to presumably little effect and great annoyance to their new found customers (victims).

La Tribune in English (sort of)

Leading French newspaper La Tribune have launched English, Italian, German and Spanish versions of their website. The only downside is that they have used machine translation.
While machine translation is great for smaller businesses and hobby sites to help their users get the gist of a site, it is not what you would expect from such [...]

Pedestrians Puzzled by Welsh Road Sign

Pedestrians in Cardiff, Wales have been left in a state of confusion by a wrongly translated road sign

Gazprom Highlight Need for Brand Checks

Russian energy giant Gazprom recently announced a joint venture with the state run Nigerian energy company NNPC. Unfortunately they didn’t think it wise to get their chosen brand checked for inappropriate or culturally offensive meanings throughout the world.