Table for multiple languages

Hi:
I have an application with a description field in 2
languages. Wich is the best approach regarding performance, one
table with 2 fields for different languages or putting descriptions
in a separate table?
PHP/MySQL
Description fields are about 1200 chars long
1 table
ID, NAME, DATE_IN, DATE_OUT, LOCATION, DESC_EN, DESC_ES
2 tables
t1: ID, NAME, DATE_IN, DATE_OUT, LOCATION
t2: ID, LANG, DESC
Thanks in advance,
Dave P.

to normalize your database it would be prefered to use two
tables. with a single table you would be repeating the name, date
in/out, and location for each entry, so if you had two languages
you would have duplicates of each of those fields.

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