OTel Docs Localized Announcement Blog Post

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+title: OpenTelemetry website goes multilingual!
+date: 2024-08-21
+expiryDate: 2024-09-30
+weight: -1 # top
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+<i class="fas fa-language"></i> OpenTelemetry website goes multilingual!
+[Learn more](/blog/2024/docs-localized)

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+title: OpenTelemetry website goes multilingual!
+linkTitle: Multilingual website
+date: 2024-08-21
+author: >-
+  [Severin Neumann](https://github.com/svrnm) (Cisco),
+issue: 4863
+sig: Comms
+cSpell:ignore: Comms
+---
+
+We are happy to announce that the OpenTelemetry documentation now supports
+multiple languages! Teams of contributors have already started to translate our
+resources into Portuguese (pt), Chinese (zh), and Japanese (ja).
+
+The OpenTelemetry project has grown to include contributors and users from all
+over the world. Making our documentation available in multiple languages is an
+important step for ensuring that everyone, regardless of their native language,
+can contribute to the project. We are also thrilled that this initiative gives
+end users access to multilingual documentation, making it easier to learn and
+understand OpenTelemetry.
+
+To access the documentation in your preferred language, use the language
+selector at the top right of the page.
+
+This is just the beginning! A team of contributors has just begun to translate
+the documentation into Spanish (es), and we expect to add more languages in the
+future.
+
+We invite you to contribute to this effort! You can find fellow localization
+contributors in the
+[#otel-docs-localization](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C076RUAGP37)
+Slack channel. If you are fluent in a language that is supported already, you
+can help by authoring or reviewing translations. If your language is not yet
+supported and you'd like to help translate, please reach out to us by raising an
+issue.
+
+Your contributions can make a meaningful impact!
+
+We thank all contributors that have helped to make this possible and look
+forward to seeing how these new language options improve the OpenTelemetry user
+experience.