Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
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Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
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Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#2Great! Now do Japanese!
(Or pull a reverse-Cookpad and professionally translate the best answers.)
Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#3Great! Now do Japanese! (Or pull a reverse-Cookpad and professionally translate the best answers.)
I find the fact that so much technical literature is translated to Japanese really fascinating.
I'm not sure whether it's because of the generally poor level of English comprehension, or just that Japanese techies buy a lot of books. In any case O'Reilly seems happy about it.
Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#4This is interesting, although most of my colleagues won't google problems in Portuguese.
Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#5I wonder why they chose Portugese. Unfortunately, I can't read the blog post. The map seems to indicate that the number of speakers is important, but that can't be it, there's many more Mandarin/Hindi/Arabic speakers. Does anybody have information on this?
Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#6According to the blog post:
Queríamos começar com uma comunidade que atendesse a dois requisitos:
1) Um grande número de desenvolvedores talentosos, em que 2) Grande parte deles se sentisse muito mais confortável em falar sua própria língua do que o inglês
Which roughly translates to: We wanted to start with a community that fulfilled two criteria: 1) A large number of talented developers in which, 2) A large part of them would be much more comfortable speaking their own language instead of english.
Then they have a map with visitors per month from Portuguese speaking countries: Brazil: 3.4M, Portugal 1M, plus Angola, Mozambique and other smaller countries with some visitors per month.
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#7I wonder why they chose Portugese. Unfortunately, I can't read the blog post. The map seems to indicate that the number of speakers is important, but that can't be it, there's many more Mandarin/Hindi/Arabic speakers. Does anybody have information on this?
Here's a Google Translate link: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#8This is interesting, although most of my colleagues won't google problems in Portuguese.
Brazilian developers don't google in portuguese because they know it'll always be faster to search in english, but I have seen a lot of developers struggling to find the answer in english because they can't understand and don't know how to search.
Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#9I wonder why they chose Portugese. Unfortunately, I can't read the blog post. The map seems to indicate that the number of speakers is important, but that can't be it, there's many more Mandarin/Hindi/Arabic speakers. Does anybody have information on this?
Por que começar com português?
Queríamos começar com uma comunidade que atendesse a dois requisitos:
Um grande número de desenvolvedores talentosos, em que Grande parte deles se sentisse muito mais confortável em falar sua própria língua do que o inglês
Why start with portugese?
We wanted to begin with a community that fulfilled two requisites:
Having a large number of talented developers and many of them feeling much more comfortable speaking their own language than English.
It seems to me this is a move to catch Brazilian developers, a wise move I'd say.
Re: Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese
#10Weird there's no number for Russia on the map. I thought SO scores a lot of Russian visitors (many of whom satisfy those two criteria).