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submitted 11 months ago by StorageB@lemmy.one to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If you're from a non English speaking country, do you first have to learn English if you want to get into programming?

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[-] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

I agree. I speak English very well now, but it is a weirdly hard requirement for a lot of jobs/hobbys in life.

You are interested in psychology? Awesome, go study psychology.
You are interested in physics? Here is a two year English course. You're bad at languages? Well, sucks for you.

I am wondering how much of an economic advantage it is for English speaking countries to have English as the base language of science. I bet at least 5% of students in other countries will not get as good as they could be because they are lacking the understanding of the language their study material is written in.

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