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This could work very well when teaching programming.

• viraptor 6y ago
  That approach was very popular in LOGO, which was aimed at teaching coding. I believe that's where turtle graphics originated. It had many translations and there were many more built-in keywords.
• szemet 6y ago
  I actually liked the mixed language approach (keywords/library functions in english, my stuff localized) when I've learned programming (and did not speak english well): Even then, you can learn the keywords and standard library function names easily - but to name things, that needs a different level of language knowledge. So teaching in mixed languages is a good compromise. And it is also very helpful to immediately distinguish between things that were already there, and things have been defined in the actual program. I remember this being a helpful feature to learn language/stdlib by simply reading others code. The more I think of it: it would be good to get back this kind of easy differentiation (maybe with IDE extension?) now... On the other hand Scratch have localization support, and lack of syntax errors - maybe the two largest blockers for smaller children...