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Our goal is to include major languages from all continents such as French, Spanish, Hindi, Swahili, and others... in addition to several less-used languages that our users might want, which include Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic, Malayalam, Tamil, Korean and Japanese. But we would like to add more languages as time goes on.
[[Image:african woman mobile.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo: [http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/december-2013/reaching-new-heights un.org]]]
[[Image:peruvian women mobile.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo: [http://www.iicd.org/articles/icts-bolstering-business-and-life-skills-of-entrepreneurial-women-in-peru iicd.org]]]
While we accept individuals with translation experience (or students in a translation program) to add newly translated pages to Akvopedia, we have been fortunate to establish a translation program with some university programs worldwide. This way, their students get college credit for doing the translations, and Akvopedia gets pages that have been proofread by not just another individual, but by a team of aspiring translators, improving the quality of translation. In addition, the universities continue to offer their courses each year, which means we get consistent help, and notifications if an English page is updated and needs that integrated into the translated versions too.
[[Image:flag demo.png|thumb|none|500px|The upper right corner of an Akvopedia page]]
[[Image:tablet India rural.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo: [http://mindyourtechnology.blogspot.com mindyourtechnology.blogspot.com]]]
[[Image:peruvian women mobile.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo: [http://www.iicd.org/articles/icts-bolstering-business-and-life-skills-of-entrepreneurial-women-in-peru iicd.org]]]
'''A note about the use of flags to represent languages:''' In order to make Akvopedia simplified and intuitive, we have chosen country flags to represent languages. However, as you know, some countries have several languages. If this is the case, you can hover your mouse over a flag and wait, then the name of the page (in the language it was translated in) will be revealed. For instance, India has several languages we are trying to include in Akvopedia: Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil. There will be the same Indian country flag used to represent each language, and to go to the language you want to go to, just hover over each Indian flag to see which one you prefer, as shown below.
[[Image:multi-flag hover.png|thumb|none|350px|Hover your mouse over a flag to reveal its page name. In this case, the middle Indian flag represents the Malayalam page.]]
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