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Monday, June 13, 2005

Do you have international students?

Hmmm, a little serendipity for me this afternoon.  I happened across a blog that included a translation service along the side.  I could click a flag and the page would  be shown in that language.  I couldn't get that particular one to work on my site (I think it was a purchased service) but I did find and incorporate the Fagan Finder Translation Wizard (it's down there on the lower right if you're actually reading this on my site).  About 7 minutes after I plugged that in, Stephen Downes points to the following post about the possible future uses of Google Translator: The Universal Language.  You can read more about Google Language tools here.

So what I'd like to know is whether the Fagan tool translates reasonably well into your language.  I don't read any others, but I'm regularly surprised with comments from around the globe, so I suspect there are some multi-lingual readers out there - can you let me know?  Something like this would seem to be pretty important if you're supporting distance students internationally - why not provide them with information in their native tongue (assuming this thing does a decent job).

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