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Localization: Adapting Digital Content to Local Markets

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Course Features

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Duration

6 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Advanced

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Effort

5 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Want to know how to make your product relevant worldwide? Curious what it would take to have your app release in a set of international markets? Interested in what would be needed to show your website in several foreign languages? Learn what it takes to tailor digital products to a set of international markets through localization.

This course shows you all the steps a company needs to take when releasing their software or websites in different markets. Industry experts will give you an introduction to localization, the adaptation of digital content to the requirements of a foreign market. This very often includes translation for the target markets with modern translation tools, including machine translation – and the management of translation assets, but it entails a lot more work through the different stages of a localization project tha tailors a product to the local consumer. You will also learn about:

  • Setting up and managing localization projects
  • The different project stages of localization projects
  • Defining the scope
  • Cost management
  • Schedule management
  • Quality assurance and control for localization

You will alsofind out about how to work in the localization industry and learn new skills relevant to localization, software development, digital content and project management.

Equipped with knowledge from this course you will be able to build your own localization strategy and find the right ways to reach your potential customer worldwide.

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Knowledge of another language than English can be helpful but is not required

Completion of the courses Introduction to Internationalization and Localization and Internationalization: Creating Digital Content for the World recommended, but not required.

What You Will Learn

Setting up and managing localization projects

The different project stages of localization projects

Defining the scope

Managing translation assets

Translation tools

Translation for digital products

Machine translation

Cost management

Schedule management

Quality assurance and control for localization

Course Instructors

Soren Eberhardt

Instructor at University of Washington

Soren Eberhardt is a global site manager working on localization and marketization of Microsoft's Office 365 direct sales pages. He has worked in the field of internationalization and localization fo...

Jorge Russo dos Santos

Instructor at University of Washington

Jorge Russo dos Santos is originally from Portugal. After studying engineering in college, he started working for Microsoft in Ireland, where he was the localizer of the first server operating system...

Pavel Soukenik

Instructor at University of Washington

Pavel Soukenik is a localization professional with 20 years of experience. He started his career at Ando Translations in Brno, Czech Republic, where he gained skills with CAT tools, quality assurance...

Jan Grodecki

Instructor at University of Washington

Jan Grodecki originally comes from Germany and has been in the computer industry since 1991, in Software Localization since 2001. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science and is a certified Project M...
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