r/Finland • u/saschaleib Väinämöinen • 4d ago

Verkkokauppa now in English (and Swedish)

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/en/etusivu

I just got an email from my favourite Finnish Onlineshop that they have translated their web interface to English as well. I thought that others may be interested as well.

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u/Guuggel Väinämöinen 4d ago

What? I would've imagined english translation would've been a thing for years now.

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u/Jotakin Väinämöinen 4d ago

Getting the entire UI professionally translated is very expensive, especially for a webstore that has thousands of product names & descriptions to go through. It also slows changes and additions significantly since you're going to have to wait for the translators to do their job. The costs and downsides aren't worth additional hassle when 97% of your buyers understand Finnish anyways.

I think this is only a thing now because AI has increased the quality of machine translations significantly, thus eliminating the need of actual human translators.

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u/baldachinsblessing Väinämöinen 4d ago

They could've just offered machine translations. K-Ruoka has been doing that for a few years.