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Thinking Digital - Primary language for all digital communications

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    Isabel Alhandra
    19 March 2015 - updated 4 years ago
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Experience: 

I am working in a personal project that involves a quite a lot of research.

It is easier to find something about a subject in US than in some EU countries, such as Germany or Poland. There are many sites that do not have an english version or if they do, sometimes what is published in english is not so uptaed as information in native language.

All right: it is getting better, I've already noticed. But communication in a EU Digital Market should have a primary language  - the one most known by all EU citizens - the only way to an effctive digital market be really achieved.

Ideas: 

A primary language to all digital communications in EU Digital Market and EU sites. Then every country, entreprise, business could publish in native language of course. But there should be a practise of digital publications through out EU in a chosen primary language common to all and adopted by all EU members.

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Huma Shah's picture
Huma Shah (not verified),
02/04/2015 18:59

Hi Isabel:

Another solution is 'instant intelligent translation' so that the digital content you want to read immediately 'identifies' your 'dominant language' through your previous searches and then automatically translates and presents pages in that language. You should of course be able to 'turn off' this 'instant dominant language recognition' when a website offers choice of languages to access content.

Machine translation service is one of the 'building blocks' that ISA (interoperability solutions) provides, please see this page:

http://ec.europa.eu/isa/actions/02-interoperability-architecture/2-8acti...

Dr. Huma Shah
Research Fellow, E&C, Coventry University
https://coventry.academia.edu/HumaShah

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Gudrun Magnusdottir (not verified),
02/04/2015 17:32

The problem is that as a business you want to reach the consumer across language barriers and unless you publish in THEIR native language, your products wont be bought by those not understanding the language you use. Actually asking this question in English makes it a biased survey - it only reaches those who speak that language and they don't have a problem finding a vacuum cleaner but how about "grasklippare".

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