Translating Scott's Guthrie blog posts in Arabic

Friday, May 2, 2008

Arabic efforts General Software Development

Before couple of weeks I started translating Scott Guthrie blog post in Arabic. I think it's a great idea to translate Scott's blog post because their is something special with Scott post. It's not a technical posts only it's hot news from the factory developing ASP.NET and Microsoft web development tools. I hope that we cans spread knowledge and those news if Arabs world so we can improve and enhance .Net based application development industry.

My experience

Translating technical and scientific materials into Arabic is not a new thing. Its happened form hundreds of years. When Muslim and Arab scientists translated ancient Greece and Roman books into Arabic. After other hundreds of years European scientists translated Arabic books into foreign languages. That was a big movement into transferring knowledge and science between nations and civilizations.

As I am trying to translate those blogs I faced a confusing problem that I am not really comfortable with transiting some terms into Arabic. Because I am never used an Arabic translated book while I am studying at college and our college depends on English books. In spite of that I am trying to provide an accurate translation as I can in respect of the technical terms which could not be translated.

A final world

I hope that some day we have a strong and mature .Net Arabic communities to support development industry in Arab world . So I hope this participate in translating English blog posts will help. Final many thanks for Scott for his significant posts.

Have a nice day,

Huthaifa,

8 Comments

totaly new idea... I have never thought abt it b4

Samer - Friday, May 2, 2008 10:51:20 AM

Hi Huthaifa,

I know what you mean. We are translating Scott's posts into Dutch and since all these new technologies and applications have not yet been localized into Dutch there is no standard to rely on. However you may find the Microsoft Glossaries ( http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/MILSGlossary.mspx ) to be very helpfull. These glossaries contain all Microsoft terminology in all the languages into which Microsoft has been launched.

Keep up the good work :)

Joeri Pansaerts - Friday, May 2, 2008 3:32:13 PM

Thanks very much. I really appreciate your encourage. I downloaded Microsoft terminology and I found it very useful.
Thanks again.

IsToFix - Friday, May 2, 2008 3:53:39 PM

Dear My colleague,

Yes, I think its a hard to find the best arabic word that provide the same meaning , i think the best thing is to find some guys that have experience in translating the english books to arabic ,
i hope there is some one there that can help ..

thanks for your effort and time ....

anas - Friday, May 2, 2008 8:13:11 PM

Translating scott s post in arabic.. Neat :)

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