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aa[0] = "Visitors are 4 times more likely to buy if they can view your site in their native language!";
aa[1] = "Only 5.4% of the world's population speak English as a mother tongue!";
aa[2] = "Growth in web usage and e-commerce in Europe and especially in Asia will outstrip that of the US by between 2 and 5 times over the next 2-3 years!";
aa[3] = "Being multilingual helps protect your brain! (<a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3794479.stm>bbc news</a>)";
aa[4] = "Spanish is the official language of 21 countries; English is the official language of just 7. (Instituto Cervantes)";
aa[5] = "It is estimated there are between 5,000 and 7,000 languages in the world. (www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk)";
aa[6] = "America is is very US-centric and slow to globalise websites.  Now is the time to globalise your site - those who move first are usually the most successful!";
aa[7] = "There are more English speaking people living in China than there are in the USA! (www.comedy-zone.net)";
aa[8] = "There are two types of accent: one is a 'foreign' accent occurring when a person speaks one language using some of the rules or sounds of another language; the second is the way a group of people speak their native language and is determined by where they live and what social groups they belong to.  (www.lsadc.org)";
aa[9] = "'E' is the most frequently appearing letter in the English language, and 'z' is the least frequently appearing, with 'j' as the third least frequently appearing letter, after 'x'. (Vivian Cook, Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary)";
aa[10] = "Between 1931 and 1991 the Welsh speaking population declined from 36.8% to 18.7%. However, this number rose to 19.9% between 1991 and 2001. (www.red4.co.uk)";
aa[11] = "All of the major alphabets of the world are descended from the 22-letter Phoenician alphabet.(www.phoenicia.org)";
aa[12] = "Not all languages use alphabets. Chinese characters are formed by strokes. Each character corresponds to a single syllable in Chinese. (www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk)";
aa[13] = "Many of the shorthand symbols we use today such as '&' and '@' are combinations of letters and are called ligatures. For example, the ampersand '&' literally means 'and'. It is a ligature because it is the combination of the letters 'e' and 't'. It is a cursive or stylised version of the two letters 'et' from the Latin meaning 'and' (or 'and per se'). (www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk)";
aa[14] = "About 330 million people in the world speak Spanish as their first language, and approximately 100 million people speak Spanish as a second language. (Instituto Cervantes)";
aa[15] = "The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in parts of Spain and France. It is not related to any other language in the world. (BBC Asian Network)";
aa[16] = "Over 700 million people speak English as a foreign language. (www.dyana.info)";
aa[17] = "On average a Spanish translation is 20% longer than the original English";
aa[18] = "It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)";
aa[19] = "On average a German translation is 30% longer than the original English";
aa[20] = "Papua New Guinea has 820 living languages (www.vistawide.com) ";
aa[21] = "Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, has 74 letters (www.vistawide.com)";
aa[22] = "The language with the greatest number of native speakers is Mandarin Chinese";
aa[23] = "Chinese and Greek are the oldest languges still in existence (1500BC)(www.vistawide.com)";
aa[24] = "The Taki Taki language has only 340 words compared with the 250,000 words in the English language";
aa[25] = "The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights has been translated into over 300 languages.";
aa[26] = "Site stickiness is doubled when a website is translated - visitors stay for twice as long (Forrester Research)";
aa[27] = "37 million Americans do not speak English at home (US Department of Health)";
aa[28] = "Shaking your head means “no” in most countries,but “yes” in Bulgaria";
aa[29] = "When Japanese people are trying to listen carefully to what is being said, they sometimes close their eyes and appear to be sleeping";
aa[30] = "In Arab countries you should be careful when admiring an object in your host’s house: you might be the recipient of it!";
aa[31] = "Two French people sitting in a café, talking, will touch each other approx. 110 times in one hour. By contrast, two English people won’t touch each other at all";
aa[32] = "21% of UK companies know that they have lost business as a direct consequence of language or cultural deficiencies. (Language and Culture in British Business, Stephen Hagen 2005)";
aa[33] = "89% of searches on the web are done in the user’s first language";
aa[34] = "The founding family of Toyota Motor Corporation changed the 'd' in their name "Toyoda" to a 't', partly to separate their work life from their family life, but also because in Japanese calligraphy, the number of brushstrokes used to write "Toyota" is considered luckier than the number used for "Toyoda";


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