On any multilingual project, translation is always the long tail. Same day release to all global markets can be achieved using controlled language, machine translation, and translation-management systems.
English documentation predominates around the world yet more than 50% of readers of English web pages have English as a second language. Many eLearning courses, web pages and technical documents are available in English only, or the other languages are delayed by many months or even years. On any multilingual project, translation is always the long tail. Translation cannot be done until the source language is finalized. However the tail can be shortened if we do translations concurrently.
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