I would just like to respond to your above comment.

I am aware that the translations are far from perfect but as I clearly state the translations are done by Google Translate so I have no control over these, however I have found that in my testing, most posts (admittedly into English) are fairly easy to understand. I disagree that the service has no more value than the Google Translate links that bloggers use currently. The big difference is that readers can add the feed to their reader and the translations are done automatically from then on, this allows readers to quickly scan headlines and see if it is worth reading more. Using the Google translate links the reader has to visit the site every day and click on each link to get a translation without knowing if it is interesting to them. The added bonus for blog owners is that we generate a permanent url which can be indexed by search engines giving them a much wider potential audience.

I called the service Mloovi because I live in the Czech Republic and am learning Czech at the moment, I know it is not a perfect translation but I like the name and my Czech friends got it straight away :)

Anyway, thanks for you comments and I hope this answers some of your doubts.

Mike
http://mloovi.com

I’m sure you’re spot on regarding the quality. But what interests me most about this widget is the ease at which people can add the language-specific RSS feeds. I haven’t come across a widget like this yet. Have you?

Also, I’ll have a brief Q&A with the developer of Mloovi shortly.

JY

As to the Czech mluva, mluvit (“talk”, “to speak, talk, say”), it has cognates in every Slavic language, including молва, молвить in Russian (“talk, rumour”, “to talk, speak”), мова in Ukrainian and mowa in Polish (“language”), мълвя in Bulgarian (“to talk, argue”), etc. It is probably related to the Greek μέλος and μέλπω (“I praise”), Old Indic brávīti and Avestian mraoiti (“he talks”), and Avestian mrūitē (“to say, read”).

Some tried to also tie it to the German melden (“to announce, report, notify”) and even to the Latin pro-mulgare (“to announce”), but at least the latter is quite a stretch and would make it related to the English word “milk” and its equivalents in pretty much every single Indo-European language out there.

You’re right about the name. I just emailed the founder of the service and he confirmed that the name comes from the Czech word “to talk.” I’ll have more from him later…

JY

Hope this helps

Neij