Language considerations

I’ve had a lot of thought on what language to write this blog in – or more accurately on what policy I should have regarding to use of language. I’m inclined to write in english as a my thoughts on digital learning and webpage design has a larger potential for getting feedback. But still a lot of thought on the daily life in Denmark just works better in danish.
As I am writing this I realize that my gut feeling all the time has been to write in both languages – as most of the blogs with danish roots that I read also do. I quite like the way tveskov does it – icons showing categories and with a little danish flag on danish posts.

A thought occured to me – with all the possibilities for automated translation – wouldn’t it be possible to automatically translate posts into say spanish, german, swedish and esperanto. I figure that there must be some way of doing this using API . The different versions could then be placed as alternative indexes (ex: index-esp, index-ger etc.).

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