[ugh]

“4) Do Not turn your computer to a foreign language. This will cripple your productivity. I am forced to work in German on a Windows box now and it is really awful and frustrating. Not recommended at all. Not one bit.”

That’s interesting. I never thought about it but it makes a lot of sense. The problem with software is that you often need to know the exact translation, especially when you are looking for something in a menu. You might know a correct translation but it won’t help you if that’s not the particular translation the translator picked. The weird vocabulary software often uses only amplifies the problem.

That’s why switching from English Photoshop to German Photoshop (my native language is German) was so hard for me.

[neves]

I've started using computers a very long time ago. Almost all the computers were in English. Now when I have to use a software in my native language everything fails, specially the keyboards shortcuts. In Office, Ctrl-S make things become underlined! I've even did a macro to make Ctrl-S to save.

[marquis]

I have my computer in English, but all my Google settings to Spanish. I know the layout well enough that it doesn't hinder productivity and getting a new error message always leads to learning a new word.