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MOxxx · 04-19-2009, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike33

Now if we could just find a way to convert Chinese traffic

In a way you can, targeting the hundreds of million Chinese living outside china.They most likely surf the web in their native language.

Rui · 04-19-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by lulu36

interesting. Portuguese online is booming. Right now is a good time to translate your site in this language. Get a free quote here.

What makes you say that, besides the quote part? ;)

BTW I think you guys should mention what sort of Portuguese translations you do, the baseline language is the same, but the "Portuguese from brazil" can be quite diferent from...Portuguese.

The idea is to streamline it all into only one sort of Portuguese, but thankfully it has been postnoted.

Will be getting in touch with you guys.

Tranza - Qual é a tua opinião sobre o Acordo Ortográfico?

Rui · 04-19-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by .:R I O:.

They have alot of people there. I think if more Africa get online,French will be up.

True, specially regarding Maghreb country's, with focus on Morocco and Tunisia.

devine · 04-19-2009, 04:47 PM

There's this common misconception about Chinese internet users not "converting". Of course they don't if they can't even understand what the buttons in your site says!!!! Now, take 2 minutes to think logically: they'll probably surpass english speaking users in a few years, they're in an internet booming, the domestic economies have taken a drastic change from "communism" to "market communism", millions and millions of Chinese people are discovering they can actually acquire goods they couldn't afford before. Well, it seems the stupid people at Google and Microsoft realized there's no money in Chinese people, but since they're stupid they're trying to buy as much Chinese sites as they can. Think about it, Google and Yahoo together can't even compete with Baidu, and do you think Baidu (and many chinese sites) are fed with air or money? Just take a look at http://alexa.com/topsites and you'll see how Chinese sites are growing day by day and becoming billion dollar companies.

So, it's not like Chinese traffic doesn't convert. You don't have any idea on how to do it, you don't know the culture, you don't know the language, you don't know the demographics (nor me, of course). It's like outer space traffic. However, I predict the surge of many "Western to Chinese" translations companies (and I'm not talking about language only, language represents like 1% of what you need to do)

NinjaSteve · 04-19-2009, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by emjay

When you consider that the pics and vids we peddle really do say more than a thousand words and the web is a global medium, I am surprised how many webmasters resolutely stick to an "English only" sales pitch when communicating with prospective customers...

If you are accepting credit cards and phone only, do you think it's worth the time and profitable to translate the tour language? What about the members area then? And if they are foreigners living in an English speaking country... chances are that even though they visit their native language based sites, they will be able to navigate English porn tours.

MOxxx · 04-23-2009, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Rui

What makes you say that, besides the quote part? ;)

BTW I think you guys should mention what sort of Portuguese translations you do, the baseline language is the same, but the "Portuguese from brazil" can be quite diferent from...Portuguese.

The idea is to streamline it all into only one sort of Portuguese, but thankfully it has been postnoted.

Will be getting in touch with you guys.

Tranza - Qual é a tua opinião sobre o Acordo Ortográfico?

HI Rui,

you are right it's a matter of fact that we always ask which country the client is targeting.

For some of our mobile clients we translate the same file/content both in Portuguese for Brazil and Portugal.

Lucie's comments i believe was referring to the increment of internet users in Brazil.

MOxxx · 04-23-2009, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by devine

There's this common misconception about Chinese internet users not "converting". Of course they don't if they can't even understand what the buttons in your site says!!!! Now, take 2 minutes to think logically: they'll probably surpass english speaking users in a few years, they're in an internet booming, the domestic economies have taken a drastic change from "communism" to "market communism", millions and millions of Chinese people are discovering they can actually acquire goods they couldn't afford before. Well, it seems the stupid people at Google and Microsoft realized there's no money in Chinese people, but since they're stupid they're trying to buy as much Chinese sites as they can. Think about it, Google and Yahoo together can't even compete with Baidu, and do you think Baidu (and many chinese sites) are fed with air or money? Just take a look at http://alexa.com/topsites and you'll see how Chinese sites are growing day by day and becoming billion dollar companies.

So, it's not like Chinese traffic doesn't convert. You don't have any idea on how to do it, you don't know the culture, you don't know the language, you don't know the demographics (nor me, of course). It's like outer space traffic. However, I predict the surge of many "Western to Chinese" translations companies (and I'm not talking about language only, language represents like 1% of what you need to do)

Very nice post.

I can tell you that when i started translationsxxx five years ago companies were asking me for the EN>CH combination, the same guy that started with me 5 years a go is still working with us.

Our main clients with Chinese are ,again, Mobile companies.

MOxxx · 06-01-2009, 09:38 AM

Just a useful bump.

Dianne22 · 06-01-2009, 05:19 PM

chinese rocks!

PornMD · 06-01-2009, 06:20 PM

The most interesting thing I think people should note is that the new graph has the #2 and #3 adding up to just about as much as English whereas the old has #2, #3, and #4 combined to add up to about that much. If that isn't proof that other languages are catching up, I don't know what is.

MOxxx · 06-02-2009, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by PornMD

The most interesting thing I think people should note is that the new graph has the #2 and #3 adding up to just about as much as English whereas the old has #2, #3, and #4 combined to add up to about that much. If that isn't proof that other languages are catching up, I don't know what is.

Correct and this is why it's important to localize!

katsmeow29 · 06-02-2009, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by aniloscash

what about dat ghetto talk on da social networking sites? shouldnt that be in the top 10

I think that tops English.

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04-19-2009, 04:47 PM	#54
devine Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 620	There's this common misconception about Chinese internet users not "converting". Of course they don't if they can't even understand what the buttons in your site says!!!! Now, take 2 minutes to think logically: they'll probably surpass english speaking users in a few years, they're in an internet booming, the domestic economies have taken a drastic change from "communism" to "market communism", millions and millions of Chinese people are discovering they can actually acquire goods they couldn't afford before. Well, it seems the stupid people at Google and Microsoft realized there's no money in Chinese people, but since they're stupid they're trying to buy as much Chinese sites as they can. Think about it, Google and Yahoo together can't even compete with Baidu, and do you think Baidu (and many chinese sites) are fed with air or money? Just take a look at http://alexa.com/topsites and you'll see how Chinese sites are growing day by day and becoming billion dollar companies. So, it's not like Chinese traffic doesn't convert. You don't have any idea on how to do it, you don't know the culture, you don't know the language, you don't know the demographics (nor me, of course). It's like outer space traffic. However, I predict the surge of many "Western to Chinese" translations companies (and I'm not talking about language only, language represents like 1% of what you need to do)