Comments on: Global Languages and Social Media

By: WFG Convention

WFG Convention — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:01:00 +0000

I hate those blogs where you read five posts in English two in Spanish and another one in English. My approach to this is not posting the very same content in the two blogs. This avoids the write two for the price of one.

By: youtube downloader

youtube downloader — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:42:00 +0000

Whether you’re Israeli or not, how do you think the global language consideration should be handled? My friends from Montreal blog and podcast in both, because Canada promotes a bilingual culture, but Yuval isn’t exactly eager to write two posts for the price of one every day.

By: Prettyg101

Prettyg101 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:30:37 +0000

By: Ima Translator

Ima Translator — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:42:29 +0000

He can decide based on the purpose of his blog, whether he will seek to engage the audience or reach more people. I personally would take the time and effort to do it using both languages.

By: LingoTip

LingoTip — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:48:52 +0000

I would suggest the LingoTip site for building a human-translated multilingual blog, such as lingotip.blogspot.com

By: LingoTip

LingoTip — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:48:00 +0000

I would suggest the LingoTip site for building a human-translated multilingual blog, such as lingotip.blogspot.com

By: Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:43:48 +0000

Hi Yuval,

I agree with all those who think you should write all your posts in both languages: it’s the only way to reach both audiences properly and at the same time let them know that you bridge not only two languages but two (very different) global cultures and, what’s more, from an area of the world which is very much in many people’s mind for a whole host of reasons.

Monolingual readers won’t have to deal with posts in the language they didn’t understand if you set up the directory structure and homepage of your blog properly:

base.com/english/category-in-english/post-title-english
base.com/hebrew/category-in-hebrew/post-title-hebrew

You can do the same thing with your RSS feeds with the blogging platform or via feedburner.

I’ve just done this very thing with my own blog – I’m a professional translator (Spanish-English).

And I think you should definitely take the time to translate your own posts – the translation is always much quicker than the original, once you’ve finished editing it and you have your ideas clear, although you have to pay attention to a few technical details when you prepare the posts.

Saludos.

By: Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:43:00 +0000

Hi Yuval,

Monolingual readers won’t have to deal with posts in the language they didn’t understand if you set up the directory structure and homepage of your blog properly:

base.com/english/category-in-english/post-title-english
base.com/hebrew/category-in-hebrew/post-title-hebrew

You can do the same thing with your RSS feeds with the blogging platform or via feedburner.

I’ve just done this very thing with my own blog – I’m a professional translator (Spanish-English).

Saludos.

By: Yuval Adam

Yuval Adam — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:10:18 +0000

Hi Chris, Hi all.
I thank you all for the interesting feedback.
Obviously blogging in both would be perfect, but it really is a matter of available resources, not just laziness.
It is a blog about personal stories, about life in Israel, and about political issues, sometimes.
The obvious target is my friends, but I was hoping that someone out there in the world would also find life here in this crazy land interesting.
I thought about separating into 2 blogs, but that would mean a lot of time between posts (I’m a once a week guy as it is).
My big issue is this: Israel has an active Blogging community. I can get into other Blogs, comment and such, and get quite easily some readership. But that is the end of the line. The potential readership is limited.
However, hunting for readers in English is much harder, as it is a huge ocean out there, and it will be much harder, I think…
Thanks again Chris (and all), for taking the time to address the Issue.

By: Yuval Adam

Yuval Adam — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:10:00 +0000