Is your website multilingual? - It wasn't so long ago that companies were debating the value of building a Web site. What would be the payback? Today, most businesses recognize that a company's online presence is its face to the world. Forward-looking businesses are taking that literally, say experts, and hustling to make Web sites that speak to global customers in their native tongues.
To reach 80% of the world's Internet users, a Web site needs to support a minimum of 10 languages, they are: English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, German, Korean, French, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese. Companies that are exporting to non-English speaking countries need to have their websites in one or more languages of their target market.