With my blog I want to reach as many people as possible. And that is why I decided to write it in English language, although my native language is German. English is the almost widely spoken and written language. In these days of world wide internet communication it is nearly impossible to get along without English, especially when you are interested in web, programming and other technical things.
Sometimes, when a friend needs technical help or a good tip and I wrote about it, then I advise them to read the appropriate article. But the answer often is:
Hey, your blog is English and I do not understand any word.
It also happens more often, that an article got commented in a language that I do not understand and even can not read because of non-latin letters.
I really tried some WordPress-plugins to make by blog multilingual, but that all did not satisfy me. First of all, I could only provide German and English texts. Secondly it takes so much time, to write everything twice.
Today I found the Google AJAX Translation plugin which is now implemented here with some modifications. As you can see, every article, page and even the comments have now a “Translate” button. Click it, select the language and the content will be replaced instantly with a translation and without reloading the whole page.
Hopefully you like it and the communication barrier is gone!
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Das ist ja mal endlich was extrem sinnvolles! Danke für den Hinweis!
Leider macht das Tool beim hin und her Ãbersetzen den Fehler nicht den Originaltext zu verwenden. Und so übersetzt das Tool jeden übersetzten Text wieder und wieder. Aber trotzdem ist es ein Install wert!
Wie hast du denn einen eigenen Button dafür angelegt?
Thank you.
It looks like the voting was corrupted. I deleted it and created a new one. Please feel free to vote now.
Great, its cool one Markus, Is the vote ended, or I don’t no wether I cannot vote for Language we blog.