Building a multilingual website
Many businesses need to offer their website in more than one language to reach audiences in different countries, offering them a localized version of the website's content.
There are different ways to build a multilanguage website. One of the fastest (though not the best for quality) is to install a plugin that automatically translates the website content into many other languages through Google Translate or other online translation services. Besides the limits of automated translation, this type of translation service translates content on the fly, although there are limitations to automated translations.
Another approach to providing a multilanguage website, used in Joomla version 1.5, is to create an exact copy of all the website content with extensions such as Joom!Fish, Josetta, and FaLang. The quality offered by this approach is generally better than automated translations if the content is translated by professionals or native speakers...