If you run a blog in a language other than your mother tongue or local dialect, like me an Indonesian who writes in English, you might want your local audience to understand the message you are writing as well, Or you just want to widen your audience into multi-languages audience. For that purpose, what you need is to just put a Google Translate Gadget into your sidebar (see mine in the left sidebar).
If your blog language is English, just copy & paste this code somewhere in your sidebar or footer widget/gadget:
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&up_source_language=en&w=160&h=60&title=&border=&output=js"></script>
For Bahasa Indonesia blog, copy and paste this code:
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&up_source_language=id&w=160&h=60&title=&border=&output=js"></script>
If your blog language is non-English and non-Indonesian, visit here to select your blog language first before copying the gadget codes.
This code can be put into blogger.com / blogspot or a self-hosted blog; not wordpress.com.
How Good?
Honestly, the translation doesn’t work so well. I just try to translate this blog (English) into Bahasa Indonesia using the Google Translate tool. I ask my wife if she understands. She said she cannot grasp the meaning of the translation result.
That’s said it’s still better off knowing a bit of an entirely uknown language (Russia for example) than not at all. Bad translation regardless.
Thank for sharing mas
Karena grammar bahasa satu dengan bahasa lainnya berbeda serta unsur slang mengakibatkan terjemahan jadi amburadul. Hehehehe…tetapi akan sangat membantu jika mengetahui sedikit juga bahasa yang akan diterjemahkan sehingga bisa mengkaitkannya dengan hasil terjemahannnya. Bagaimana menurut teman2?
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Lebih baik kita mengetahui bahasa yang akan kita translate, walaupun sedikit. Sehingga bisa kita raba2, apa kira2 maksud dari tulisan tersebut.
Emang bener kata mas Budi , hiks2,,emang rada aneh kalo kita langsung terjemahin,,tapi menurut saya yang google translate versi web lebih mendekati , ah,,tapi sama aja sih,,,wekekekk,,,
Makasih mas Fatih untuk Script nya
klo kita pake wordpress.com (blog gratiss) gimana cara masukin widget baru kayak google translate ini?
Thanks info widget transleter nya. Alhamdulillah, sdh saya coba pasang dan ..It’s work !! sukses slalu..
I had put this gadget on my blog……
hi i am is there anyway to create translation with google using only one language. i mean to say options will be only to translate tagalog via english and english to tagalog. the other options must not be included. i am trying to create a module for joomla users who are filipino’s.
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Makasih infonya
i also saw it that way.pl;ease i was looking for someone who could adopt for me this my adorable English puppy.i guess you could be the one.please get back to me if interested.
I agree with you, the translation is bad. I tried to translate an article from korean language into english with google translator, but the translation was so bad that I couldn’t understand the article I translated.