Building Multiple Language Versions in One Course?

We've done some of these and have usually just set triggers at the beginning to choose your language which takes you to the scene in the proper language. It works pretty well and is simple enough to do though you could have some pretty large file sizes especially if you are using many images.

I've toyed around with Gary's idea using variables on an opening chose your language screen and then having the timeline read the variable for each slide to show the proper layer. That only seems to work if your structure is fairly simple, i.e. you don't have a lot of layers being triggered by buttons or other interactions.

Another way using variable is to create states for every text item/caption/title, etc., one state for each language on every slide. So you would have an English state for each item, a Spanish state, a Japanese state, etc. And then at the start of the timeline for each slide you'd have it read the language variable and then change the state of each text item to that state. Seems like a lot of work but could be done. I did it once to create a single, multi-language quiz and I think it worked out OK.