If governments use social media to communicate with the public, should they do so in more than one of a country’s official languages? One Canadian province says yes.


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Stateside Android fans have had over a year to put Google's nifty Voice Actions for Android through its paces, and while it's always technically been available to foreign users, it only ever officially supported American English. Thankfully for our friends in the EU, Google has just announced an update to their Voice Search application that adds support for a bevy of additional languages.

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Twitter announced yesterday (September 13th) on their blog the addition of five new languages. They've added Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Malay. That brings Twitter's total number of languages to 17. The translation process relies heavily on volunteer translators who help translate and moderate Twitter apps and more. They have a total of ...

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Over 1.5bn more people now have access to foursquare thanks to the recent language expansion. Now available in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Thai, foursquare hopes to meet the global demands of its international members with native-language access.Why these languages specifically? According to the official foursquare blog, these are the areas that represent the most growth for the app.You can either check out the foursquare website to see the changes yourself, or update you [...]

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How do you say, “check in,” in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Thai? foursquare users can now answer that question, as the location-based mobile app announced support for those five languages.

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