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I think it is. As someone that learned English too (French is my first language), I know how much it expends your world. You suddenly have access to a wealth of
by Zababa 5y ago
I think it is. As someone that learned English too (French is my first language), I know how much it expends your world. You suddenly have access to a wealth of knowledge, resources, media that you didn't have before. However, I would never say something like:
> if it is not being translated into English, there are big chances it is not worth reading
English may be the language with the most written text (altough I'm not even sure of that), but that's still a fraction of what humanity produced. Dismissing the rest as "probably not worth reading" makes no sense to me. That doesn't prevent me for recognizing that for exemple knowing English is a big advantage in software, since there are more resources and they are often higher quality than what I can find in French. The keyword here being "often". Not "always". And that's taking a very "technical" and "easy to translate" domain. When taking into account culture and all of that, I know that people that can't understand French miss a lot of French culture. Just like I know that I miss lots of culture from languages I don't understand.