Atomium, 27 languages
The Project
We have been working with the Atomium since 2008. The audio-guides available for hire from reception provide visitors with a 45-minute introduction to the structure, Expo 58 and the renovation of the building. Though the first version was available in Dutch, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish, we still didn’t feel that was enough, so at the beginning of 2010 we decided to translate the tour into the 23 official languages of the European Community, plus Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and Turkish. Consequently, the tour is now available in a total of 27 different languages. It was quite a task (to put it mildly), but we managed to translate the tour into all these languages and to record and edit them.
The languages
Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Irish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Rumanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Czech, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew and Chinese.