Frequently asked questions
Homepage > Languages
- How
can I switch languages?
Use
the language navigation at the top of the
page. The activated language is shown as a white rectangular
shape with the language abbreviation inside. The abbreviations
stand for the following languages:
| de |
German |
| dk |
Danish |
| en |
English |
| es |
Spanish |
| fr |
French |
| it |
Italian |
| nl |
Dutch |
| pt |
Portuguese |
| py |
Russian |
| zh |
Chinese |
| ja |
Japanese |
To switch to a different language,
just click on the language symbol of your choice.
Please note that not all the contents of www.astro.com
are available in all languages. If a webpage or service
is not available in your language, you will automatically
be led to the English version.
Seriously interested volunteer translators for English
material are welcome.
- Are you
planning
to translate your website into other languages besides the ones
you've
got?
Currently our reports and website are being translated into Chinese,
Japanese and Russian. Once the website is online in these languages, we
consider
translating it into other languages. However, new languages need to be
carefully chosen for several reasons:
a) Translating the website is quite elaborate and costly. It involves the
translation
of hundreds of pages of text and complex software resources.
b) Our free web services at www.astro.com are financed by means of selling
our
high-quality horoscope reports. So, in order to be able to offer free
services
in a certain language, we need to have at least some of our reports
translated
into this language. This means having to invest into the translation of
these
reports which comprise several thousand pages. Such an investment has to
be
justified by some prospect of being able to sell the reports.
Therefore we can only translate into languages which offer a reasonable
market
for our products.
- If there
are
different variants of a certain language, which one do you use - or
do
you (wish to) make your website available in both?
We are aware that certain languages exist in different variants, for
example
British and American English, or Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. At
www.astro.com,
we do not favour any particular variants.
It is our language policy to cultivate the co-existence of the different
variants.
And it depends on the respective authors or translators which one is used
in
a particular text. We do not intend to support two varieties of the same
language
as separate languages.
- There are
still
pages in existing web languages which haven't been translated. Can I
help?
Yes, certainly. We are happy to accept help from volunteer translators. If
you
notice that a certain page in the "Understanding Astrology" or
"Free
Horoscopes" sections hasn't been translated and you would like to
make a
contribution, please write an e-mail to webmaster at astro dot com.
