How's your Spanish? Build Spanish into your product or else

http://theweek.com/article/index/213574/the-new-us-census-data-6-key-takeaways

by egiva • 15 years ago

5 4 15 years ago

Latest Census data shows a booming Hispanic population in the US with 43% growth over 10 years. I think that building Spanish into your product is necessary to be successful in the 10 years to come!

sgt2• 15 years ago

I'm all of internationalization. I always try to design programs so they can be translatable on the fly, even if I only start off with one language (being English).

julianz• 15 years ago

"I'm all of internationalization"? I'd be fascinated to read your comment in English.

sgt2• 15 years ago

Sorry, bit of a typo there :-)

Hoff• 15 years ago

Muy engañosa. Misleading title. I see no references to languages in an article on a shift in US demographics.

There are a wide variety of local languages in the US.

Here in New England, French (Québécois) was the first language of folks in a number of the local towns, and I now tend to hear more Portuguese than Spanish in the local area.

As with anything else, TANSTAAFL. Know your market and your target customers' preferred language(s), and make the appropriate trade-offs around the costs of implementing and maintaining language variants.

How's your Spanish? Build Spanish into your product or else

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