Localization Essentials
Course facts
- Payment: Free, no certificate
- Credits: Non Credit
- Learning style: Self-paced, start anytime
- Video access: Offline Download (App)
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Learn localization essentials: key concepts, localizing help content and user interfaces, team roles and skills, project stages, and tools.
Localization adapts a product to the language, culture, and market of each group of users, and it involves far more than translation. You learn the history and key concepts of localization, how professionals localize different content types such as help documents and user interfaces, the roles in a localization team and the skills each needs, the steps of a localization project through preparation, execution, testing, and launch, and the tools used at every stage.
What You Will Achieve
- Explain the key concepts and definitions of localization
- Describe how different content types, including user interfaces, are localized
- Identify localization roles and the skills each requires
- Outline the stages and tools of a localization project
Program Overview
Localization in Practice
What localization is and how different content is handled.
- History and key concepts
- Localizing content types, including help documents and user interfaces
People, Processes and Tools
Who does localization work and how projects run.
- Localization roles and skills
- Preparation, execution, testing, and launch
- Localization tools and a glossary
Course Completion
Job Outlook
Localization skills are used by localization specialists, translators, project managers, and product teams who launch products in new markets.
Good for: People interested in a localization career and product teams preparing to launch in new languages and markets.
Keep in mind: The examples come from Google’s own localization teams, so its processes and roles may differ from smaller organizations.
Bottom line: A clear introduction to how localization works as a profession.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a localization team do?
One lesson introduces localization professionals, their different roles and profiles, and the skills each role requires.
What are the stages of a localization project?
The processes lesson covers the series of steps in a localization project: preparation, execution, testing, and launch.
Which kinds of content get localized?
The content types lesson shows how professionals localize different kinds of content, including online help documents and user interfaces.
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