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Of the world’s billion internet users, one in three logs on in English, that’s no surprise. The technology started in the US; most Web pages are in English and more than 60% of US, Canadian, UK and Australian populations are online. But China is catching up. The number of Chinese speakers using the Internet is 5 times greater than in 2000. And with only 11% of the world’s billion-plus Chinese speakers currently online, hundreds of millions are poised to hop on the Web. Other languages climbing rapidly are: Portuguese and Spanish, boosted by reviving economies throughout Latin America; French and Arabic, the latter a slowly awakening market of more than a ¼ billion speakers. So if you haven’t got your website translated, maybe it’s time to think of reaching that potential untapped market of some of the other 70% of the users of the internet. Communiqué can help with all aspects of website creation from design to animations, content development and translation.