Managing a multilingual site

This site (Drupal-translation.com) is in English, German and Spanish with English as the default language. All the content is written in English and then professionally translated to German and Spanish using the ICanLocalize translator module.

Unfortunately I don't understand German or Spanish so what happens when someone comments on a page that has been translated to German.

"hab auch ewig gesucht...du" - I have no idea what this means, luckily the ICanLocalize translator module helps out. When I view the comment as an administrator, the ICanLocalize translator module sends the German text to Google translate so that I can get an idea of what the comment is about.

AH! It looks like they are replying to a previous comment with some helpful information about the path module needs to be enabled. I can now approve this comment and publish it.

In addition, if I want to reply to a comment on a German page I can enter my comment in English and this time the ICanLocalize translator module will send my "English" comment to be professionally translated to German. This way the correct meaning of my comment will be in German and it wont rely on machine translation to German.

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