Comments on: Non English Posts make up over Two Thirds of Total Blog Posting

By: Dena Bugel-Shunra

Dena Bugel-Shunra — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:21:48 +0000

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翻译公司 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:02:47 +0000

useful to remind ourselves that English isn’t the main blogging languag

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Bradleyjames — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:24:13 +0000

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By: led display

led display — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:48:04 +0000

How can inproof this statistic is noerror?

By: blogHelper » Number of Japanese Blogs Has Tripled

blogHelper » Number of Japanese Blogs Has Tripled — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:54:02 +0000

[...] This probably won’t mean anything to most bloggers, but it’s always useful to remind ourselves that English isn’t the main blogging language, and hasn’t been for many months now. Like Darren Rowse asked in May, does anyone want to translate this blog into Japanese? [...]

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By: Viva La Blog

Viva La Blog — Sat, 20 May 2006 23:19:05 +0000

Not many blogs in South Asian languages

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By: Remote Support Software

Remote Support Software — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:00:49 +0000

The Japaneese blogging community is so much on the rise because Japan is very succesful economically. One of the key factors in economic success is communication. This is an innert factor to economic prosperity. With thought or concious, this has migrated into the culture of the citizens and spills into the blogging as another outlet for communications. Thank you, Roger. Remote Desktop Control Over the Web

By: Remote Support Software

Remote Support Software — Fri, 12 May 2006 03:58:25 +0000

By: ederic

ederic — Fri, 12 May 2006 01:42:46 +0000

This is an interesting bit of info. Here in the Philippines, I think most bloggers blog in English. Among the early bloggers like me, only a few use the native language Filipino (or Tagalog).

By: گزیر » روزی امروز

گزیر » روزی امروز — Thu, 04 May 2006 08:27:59 +0000

[...] وبلاگنویسان ژاپنی زبان از انگلیسی نویسها هم بیشتر می‌نویسند [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 03 May 2006 22:29:53 +0000

These figures don’t surprise me at all. I have lived in Japan for about 9 years now and blogging is huge here. From a general observation, most people use free hosting services like livedoor and the community site mixi.

I tried to get into it, but have enough trouble updating my English blog. Other than the obvious language barrier, many things just don’t translate well culturally. What is interesting or funny to westerners, doesn’t raise an eyebrow in Japan. Japanese tv is also difficult to get the humour.

I don’t know the figures, but Japan has a huge number of printed publications available, the graphics and design are extremely high quality.

By: The banker

The banker — Wed, 03 May 2006 07:25:13 +0000

I thought you could see everyone’s email adress if they left a comment on your blog. But if that is not the case mine is webmaster@morkpoker.net /Patrik

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 03 May 2006 02:02:43 +0000

Anyone want to translate ProBlogger into Japanese?

Nope. But i can translate into Malaysian Language :-) hehe

Jimmy, Malaysia

By: The banker

The banker — Tue, 02 May 2006 20:24:51 +0000

I have a japanese friend who might be able to help you with the translation. She has lived in the U:S and she has done some translation work before. I don’t know how her schedule looks right now though. Just send me an email if you are still interested in the idea and I will ask her./Patrik

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Tue, 02 May 2006 18:50:39 +0000

An interesting tidbit … after making the post here yesterday about my thoughts on personal stragtegy for dealing with visitors whose language you don’t speak, I just noticed I had more blog visitors from Japan in about 12 hours than I normally get in a month. I guess the moral is a heck of a lot of people read Problogger from Japan … or never be afraid to comment? ;-)

By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 02 May 2006 00:09:05 +0000

Translation services would be given a boost by this trend, that is if more non-Japanese users are interested in reading Japanese-written or other non-English blogs.

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Mon, 01 May 2006 22:42:37 +0000

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By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:53:16 +0000

Although anyone desiring to appeal to the entire Blogosphere might do well to post a little in Japanese, there’s no real need to.

Everyone in Japan who has completed High school (a very large percentage of the population, much higher than the US’s abysmal percentage, no idea about Australia’s) will have taken 10 to 12 years of formal English education. They can read and write English in most cases much better than they might speak it.

I worked in Tokyo for three years supervising a number of Japanese employees. I was continually embarrassed by technical questions about English my workers would ask me …obscure rules of grammar and such that I had no idea of.

Japan is a good potential market, especially for those with tech or gadget orientation.

As far as having a spate of visitors from Japan or Taiwan, etc., and wondering how to welcome them … just write a welcome post in English acknowledging or explaining the burst of traffic, and you’ll make new friends (and readers) … friendship and interest in people usually translates pretty well.