J-Walk & Associates, Inc.

Two New Translations

I recently received copies of two of my book translations. I hardly ever never know when a book is being translated. On rare occasions, a translator will contact me with questions. But mostly, the translated books are surpises.

• Excel 2007 PL Formuly - Translated into Polish by Lukasz Piwko and Wojciech Demsk
• Excel 2007 Grande Guida Per Il Professionista - Translated into Italian by Anna Rizzon, Carolina Figini, and Pier Franco Chillin

I'm almost always impressed with the translated books, even though I can't read them. An amazing amount of work is involved translating all files and re-doing the screen shots.

Sometimes I wonder who these translators are. Just for fun, I Googled the three people who translated the Excel 2007 Bible into Italian.

• Anna Rizzon has written at least one book. She's also made a few contributions to Wikiwords and (if this site is accurate) she earns 7.4 cents per word.
• Here's the resume of Carolina Figini (Word file), and her listing at Translators Cafe. Plus, an online petition that she signed.
• Pier Franco Chillin wrote an least one book, HTML in Your Pocket.

- Reader Comments -

Following are comments in response to this item.
The most recent comment is at the bottom.

1. By Ron de Bruin. Comment posted 26 August, 2008 12:30pm

   Hi John
   
   Why not add this information to the book section of your site.
   If Non English users like me visit your site they can see if there is
   a tranlation of the book in there language.
   
   I know that I was suprised to see your Formulas book in Dutch in
   the book store a few years back.
2. By John Walkenbach. Comment posted 26 August, 2008 2:19pm

   Good idea, Ron.
   
   I just added all of the translated Excel 2007 books that I know about. See:
   
   http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/book/C43/
   
   I probably won't go through the effort to list all the earlier ones.
3. By Ron de Bruin. Comment posted 26 August, 2008 2:45pm

   Thanks John
   
   >I probably won't go through the effort to list all the earlier ones.
   I understand <g>
4. By Ron de Bruin. Comment posted 26 August, 2008 2:53pm

   I see one in Dutch
   http://www.comcol.nl/detail/59406.htm
5. By John Walkenbach. Comment posted 26 August, 2008 4:14pm

   Thanks again, Ron. I've added that, plus several others that I have never seen.