> That is not a fair comparison for most people, because English is the most popular second language
According to Wikipedia, FWIW, 1.5 billion people speak English as a first or second language. That means there is a significant language barrier for ~78% of the world.
>According to Wikipedia, FWIW, 1.5 billion people speak English as a first or second language. That means there is a significant language barrier for ~78% of the world.
As I argued, that's not exactly true. As long as your mother tongue is not something totally different, you do not have to qualify as an English speaker to learn how to program. It's the same with games: Sure, kids don't know how to pronounce "Game over", but they know what it means.
According to Wikipedia, FWIW, 1.5 billion people speak English as a first or second language. That means there is a significant language barrier for ~78% of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
> in Europe it's not like we have to learn something totally different (like Chinese is to English)
Imagine how English is for the 1 billion people in China!
I wonder how many people are fluent in languages using the Latin alphabet, or speak any Indo-European language.
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