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Help us translate “charm” and “speed bump” in Windows 8 – for 23 languages!

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A few weeks ago we asked speakers of Chinese Simplified, Japanese, German and French help us translate the planned, new terminology in Windows 8. We got some brilliantly creative suggestions and insightful comments that will help us get the language experience just right in Windows 8.

We are now looking for feedback or alternative suggestions for another 23 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Serbian (Latin), Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.

Some of the trickier terms include charms,apps, speed bump, thumb keyboard and many more.  

To give you an idea of how some of these terms appear, here’s a preview of what the English Windows 8 Start screen currently looks like in the Windows 8 Developer Preview:

Windows 8 International Terminology

It just takes a few simple steps to get started. Click your language above, sign in with your Windows Live account and follow the simple one-off forum registration (no code needed). Click the Glossary link and from there you will see the list of English source terms and our preliminary suggestions to help you along. Then it’s just a case of, for each term, deciding if you like the suggestions provided by selecting Suggest a Translation or Vote.

The forums will remain open for feedback until November 21.

We hope taking part will be a bit of fun and help make the international versions of Windows 8 easy to understand and enjoyable to use for everybody.

Thanks in advance for participating!

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    title 我想到一个不错的翻译 条头

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    title 板块 speed bump 栏  Charms 底边

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2011
    How about Chinese (Simplified)? This language isn't in wave 1 as usual.

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2011
    Sorry, my fault. Please ignore my question.

  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2011
    persian?

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2011
    Catalan? Why not?

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2011
    I just can't register, each time I open the webpage, and I'm logged in with my Windows Live ID, it considers me a guest, and when trying to vote for something it takes me to the registeration page, and when I try to register, one of these errors happen:

  • This user is already registered into the database...'229374
  • The user name 'MS_Mustafa' is already being used. Please select a different username

  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2011
    Hi Palle, I hope Italian participants might find helpful some notes on the underlying meaning of the term "charm" that I made in blog.terminologiaetc.it/.../significato-charm-windows-8

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2011
    You could translate win 8 to Galician language, too, I've read another Comment by "BCN" who said...<Catalan? Why not?> Yes¡¡¡¡ I think it will be good to translate it to both languages (Catalan and Galician)¡¡¡¡

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2013
    Persian ?  Why not ? :(