Saturday, August 7, 2010

English & Spanish, new tags on birth

I have to face this issue: having content that may present problems to translate to Spanish. As I've said in another post, I'm from Colombia, so I want to keep a good translation to Spanish. In order to do so, my first step is to review the translation that Google does for this Blog. After I've decided that the translation is Ok, I'll post the translated version to C# porque no sé ++.

This have a drawback. It may happen that the translation get delayed, so for those interested in the lastest topics, there is a translation box. On the right, below the search box. in there you can select "Español" to view this Blog in Spanish. I'm making sure that all the translations that Google provides for this Blog are accurate and that will never change the meaning of the text I have in it.

But now, let's suppose that I would like to share a few videos from another source... for example, but the videos are not easy to translate from English to Spanish (or vice-versa), It's also time consuming to provide close caption or another similar technology (I would probably better do that, you can blame by choosing to do not do that). And since I'm from Colombia I expect to have certain level of visitor that speak Spanish, and the odds are that there will be people that may be not so good in English too. The videos are going to be a problem, since I can have them in English or in Spanish.

So... for those, there is always the option to learn English, be it with a movie, a book, video games, or with a teacher. Though I'm not English teacher, I can find a few books to learn English from internet.

¡But I still want to post the videos! (and other language specific stuff).

Edit: All that stuff will be posted to C# porque no sé ++, if I can't provided a decent translation to English, I'll add the tag "Spanish" to the article when I post it in this blog. Also, if I post something here that I can't properly translate to spanish to add it to C# porque no sé ++ then that post will have the tag "English".

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