[Tex/LaTex] Best practice: define BibLateX/BibTeX entry with title in native language and in English

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I am preparing a paper. Some of the documents are written in Portuguese. My supervised suggested me to include in the bibliography the title translated to English and the title in Portuguese as well, and mention at the end the native language of the document. Is there a good way to do this, using biblatex or bibtex? A general entry for biblatex is below.

@misc{author1:year,
author={Author 1 and Author 2},
title={Title in english, Title in Portuguese},
howpublished={Institution},
month=dec,
year=2010,
url={some_place_internet.pdf},
urldate={2013-05},
note={Document in Portuguese},
}

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Based on the answer above and comments, what I used was this:

@misc{author1:year,
author={Author 1 and Author 2},
title={Title in Portuguese [Title in english]},
howpublished={Institution},
month={December},
year={2010},
url={some_place_internet.pdf},
urldate={2013-05},
note={Original document in Portuguese},
}

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Sample output

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[australian,american]{babel}

\usepackage[backend=biber,dateabbrev=false]{biblatex}

\begin{filecontents}{references.bib}
@book{Book,
  title = {This is a Title},
  author = {Author, Some},
  location = {The City},
  publisher = {Publisher},
  date = 2005,
  month = feb,
  day = 14,
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{references.bib}

\begin{document}
\today

Citing \cite{Book}.

\begin{otherlanguage}{australian}
\printbibliography
\end{otherlanguage}

\end{document}

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