i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian
my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese
I keep my OSs set in English, although it’s not my native language. Simply, because most articles and forum posts for troubleshooting are in english and it makes translating sub-menu titles obsolete
This is exactly what I wanted to comment.
This is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)
everything in english
i’m better at english than my native language lul
Persian is my mother tongue but the most disappointing day in my life is when I realized I dreamed in English because it has been my primary language most of my life. I honestly don’t even know if I can set lemmy to Persian, I’ve never checked.
edit: well, how about that you can.
english, it is better handled by computers at all levels
Regardless what i do, the results are shit. If i set language to English, it tries to present me with English tranlations of German YouTubers, if i set it to German, it tries to translate English YouTubers to German. Both kinds of tranlations suck.
That might be more of a VPN issue, no?
Nah, its an issue of Youtube pushing/forcing their bs “AI-“Features””
I used to have everything set to English (my second language), but nowadays I use Spanish when available (third language). I use my native language only for a handful of local apps and websites if Spanish is unavailable.
same
I’m an American who is decent at German, living back in the US again. I set whatever I can to German to maintain my exposure to it, sometimes to my own confusion and detriment
Same here. Gives me a new appreciation for in-app language settings, in case an app is too complicated or weirdly translated.
I’ve got my stuff in Japanese. Just trying my best to keep it sharp and not let English kick it out of my brain (which it is aggressively trying to do.)
I am Hungarian, but everything I use is in English. As a software developer it’s basically the language of my work and I started consuming media in English at a young age.
I’m a native English speaker but my phone and fitbit are in French. I minored in French in college and I’m trying to shake off the rust.
My phone and YouTube are in French, everything else is in English. No idea why YouTube (and only YouTube, not google, gmail, etc) is French, one day it was and I’ve never put in the effort to change it.
Native English speaker also.
Interesting! My google apps all changed to French, I wonder why yours didn’t.
Spanish is my first language, but English has pretty much taken over so PC is all in English, phone is all in English.
I’m so used to seeing English everywhere that I actually have trouble navigating things like settings in my native Serbian.
Native Spanish and English speaker, Lemmy settings are in Spanish. I’m used to my settings being in Spanish because I grew up in South America with electronics naturally being set to Spanish.
Also, when I’d go to Google something for my friends, it was more efficient to have them read it, rather than just translating.
For example:
I remember someone asking me about religion in Poland (they were Polish and didn’t know and also didn’t have their phone with them) so they asked me to look it up. It was more efficient, like I said, to just have them read this.
i thank you for this as a hispanic dude with a polish mom
Native Spanish
Everything that has a relatively decent Spanish translation will use it, else go to English (and hope that in case of English also being a translation of the original, it’s slightly more bearable)
I’m not bilingual yet but I have my computer and phone set in Esperanto.
