I installed a fresh copy of wheezy on a laptop recently, and I was getting a ton of Translation-<language code> updates that I didn't really need. You can disable them by added a apt.conf.d file like so:
echo 'Acquire::Languages "en";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations
Do an apt-get update and it should only update the english translations.
posted at: 14:24 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry