Facebook is taking a major step in helping users around the world connect with more people by helping them share their posts and comments in multiple languages.

The world’s largest social network announced today that its own developers have built a multilingual composer. A user test of the service will begin today.

The tool enables users to compose a single post that will appear in multiple languages. Other users will see that post in their preferred language.

“People use Facebook to share information and ideas in many different languages,” the Facebook team wrote in a blog post. “In fact, 50% of our community speaks a language other than English and most people don’t speak each other’s languages, so we’re always thinking about ways we can help remove language as a barrier to connecting on Facebook.”

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