Why translate your website?

The Internet allows global marketing of products and services. Addressing your potential international customers in their native language maximises your marketing efforts and gives expression to your company's open-mindedness towards other cultures.

According to a study published by Global Reach, English speakers currently account for 35.80 percent of the world's on-line population, and non-English speakers account for 64.20 percent. But, by the year 2005, the percentage of English users on-line is expected to drop to less than 25 percent.

Currently, less than 15% of all companies present on the Web offer more than one language, a majority of corporate sites offering only English.

These data are in sharp contrast with the linguistic reality sketched below.

20 most spoken languages:

1	Chinese	885,000,000
2	English	350,000,000
3	Spanish	250,000,000
4	Hindi	200,000,000
5	Arabic	150,000,000
6	Bengali	150,000,000
7	Russian	150,000,000
8	Portuegese	135,000,000
9	Japanese	120,000,000
10	German	100,000,000

11	French	70,000,000
12	Punjabi	70,000,000
13	Javan	65,000,000
14	Bihari	65,000,000
15	Italian	60,000,000
16	Korean	60,000,000
17	Telegu	55,000,000
18	Tamil	55,000,000
19	Marathi	50,000,000
20	Vietnamese	50,000,000