Facebook reaches 64 language mark

Posted by BA on Jul 9, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

We covered it earlier when Facebook hit 57 languages and within a month, Facebook has grown to 64 languages now. This is all done with the help of the community based translation mechanism used by languages application.

Note, the new languages include فارسی (Farsi), that is the most common language in Iran.

Following is the new list of languages being supported:

Facebook is available in 57 languages now!

Posted by BA on Jun 7, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

As discussed in our earlier post about Facebook Translations, Facebook is using community/society effort to get the social network translated completely. Today Facebook announced with the following message that its available in 57 languages. This means that Facebook family has completely translated the site in 57 languages already.

Following is the list of supported languages:

p.s: Urdu is not among the supported 57.

Facebook Translations

Posted by BA on Mar 2, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Facebook has come up with another brave idea of translating the whole Facebook into local languages of the users. The list contains more than 60 languages from the world. The idea is to let the people translate the site themselves in their native languages.

The process is to add the “Translations” application. An invitation to this application popped up onto my home page when I logged in Facebook this morning.

Once you have added the application, you select your language and you are all set to start translation. You simply click “Go translate” and you can see phrases coming up on English. You click translate and type the appropriate translated phrases.

As Facebook is all about social interaction and community effort, all these translations will be verified and voted by the other users and eventually your Facebook localized version will be ready to be used.