[swah]

This is interesting, although most of my colleagues won't google problems in Portuguese.

[rabc]

Brazilian developers don't google in portuguese because they know it'll always be faster to search in english, but I have seen a lot of developers struggling to find the answer in english because they can't understand and don't know how to search.

[speeder]

This...

My dad is one of the best programmers I ever saw, and he tried VERY, VERY, VERY hard for 30 years already, and don't understand english at all.

What he do is search in english (or try to), and then use google translate to read the results.

Also I once worked in a company with 40 programmers, only 4 could read and write in english well enough to use StackOverflow, the others knew only the programming language keywords (in the sense of what they did even, not what they meant in english), and sometimes barely enough to use english google + google translate.

[psychart]

As stated on the announcement:

Grande parte deles se sentisse muito mais confortável em falar sua própria língua do que o inglês

Most of them feel more comfortable speaking own language than english

Although english is a must be for a developer, there's a lot of people who can't even read.

[swah]

I know, I know... Some people will obviously have a lot of points in StackoverflowPT by translating english answers.