Hello! Bonjour! Buongiorno!
Friday, 22nd February 2008 by Alex Turnbull
To celebrate International Mother Language Day1 Google Sightseeing has some really big news - today, for the first time we're launching Google Sightseeing in a foreign language! Not only that but we're launching two at the same time - French and Italian!
Google Sightseeing Français will be translated by Julien Gremillot, a 30 year old software engineer originally from Paris, who now lives near Nantes, and who has had a passion for satellite sightseeing ever since Google Maps introduced satellite imagery nearly 3 years ago.
Google Sightseeing Italiano will be translated by Alexei Popov who lives and works in Rome. Although Alexei is originally from St. Petersburg, he has made Italy his permanent home after falling in love with it on his first visit. He loves to travel and says his horizons have expanded incredibly since discovering GSS.
Julien and Alexei will be translating all the best posts from the English language GSS for their own languages, as well as posting some of their own language specific stuff as well!
We've still got a bit of tweaking to do, so if you find a problem with functionality or appearance leave a comment here (in English please) and we'll try and fix it.
If you have a comment about the French or Italian posts then feel free to comment in those languages and our translators will handle your queries.
Of course, we want Google Sightseeing to be available to all, so we aim to expand with more languages in the future. If you are fluent in another language and would like to have your own Google Sightseeing blog then please get in touch.
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Which was actually yesterday, but nevermind... ↩︎
About the author
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Great idea! Bon courage Julien 😉
It’s a fantastic idea! Now I can really improve my French!
I call dibs on the Pig Latin version.
sanskrit anyone?
A sad day. From now on the GSS community (if such thing exists) will be split according to language and nationality… What’s next? Google Sightseeing for Ladies Only?
(BTW, falling in Love with Italy is not quite a recommendation either, IMHO)
Nonsense dr.R.! This moves open up Google Sightseeing to all those people who were previously excluded simply because they didn’t speak English!
Now, enough of your trolling, you won’t reel me in!
Um, again.
OK, OK, if it makes you feel better I can also pretend to join in the general cheering!
And what about our comments? Will they also be translated?
@dr R: You’re welcome to translate your own comments and cross-post!
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…as well as posting some of their own language specific stuff as well…
Does that mean that there will be different posts among the three GSS versions? …and being an Italian living in Italy but higly committed to an ‘international’ lifestyle how do I choose which one to follow? I’m just asking a suggestion 😉
We need an American version! You guys use the Queen’s English, whereas we use an amalgam of languages. I call it Spanilatinofrenchtalindianyiddishslang.
Why don’t you follow both, xf?! Or even all three, learning French in this way! There will be some language/country specific posts, but apart from that the content will be very much the same, i believe.
I’ll translate into Middle English if you want!
Good idea though lads, good luck with getting it popular.
I think that it ‘s a great idea, to enlarge the public of this site!
dr.r. stop telling nonsenses, please.
MERCI !
Cool ! Bonne idée ! Bonne chance pour la suite, je vais lire avec intérêt les billets en français 😉
Of course the Queen’s English! Mais est-ce qu’il vaudrait soumettre dans les trois endroits?
Bárbaro, compadre!!! Te la comiste, mano!!
Hei ! Well done guys ! I’ve just checked the Italian version and I have to say that it’s wonderfully translated…! Our StPeterburg’s friend writes an almost perfect Italian (well, I should say he knows Italian better than I do 😉 despite I’m a 100% Italian girl)
So, CLAP CLAP to Google Sightseeing and….complimenti siete BRAVISSIMI
Ciao!
Предлагаю Алексею перевести еще и на русский