Personally I don't know what half of my technical vocabulary translates to in my native language :P I know what type inference means and I'm pretty sure I could explain it in Finnish but I have no clue what the "standard" jargon is if it even exists.

I have lots of vocabulary that is "English-only"; it's especially noticeable if I'm asked to translate something, as coming up with a translation can take a while even though I can effortlessly understand the source sentence.

> The problem is that most people learn these precise technical terms first in their own language and must then learn them also in English

I think this is only possible true for people who speak languages with large programming communities - Chinese and maybe Russian - but I doubt it’s true for anyone else.

I am from a small country of two million people. We have our own language and the faculties have a mandate to coin new technical terms in our language. Our theses all have to be written using these terms (they are updated annually).

Unfortunately, we in the industry largely don't follow these updates so in our conversations we use English terms. People just graduating, however, may be exposed to the English terms anew when they start working.

A dilligent student would have studied material in English as well but it is possible for people to get to a Masters in Computer Science and do all their studying in our native language.

Interesting! I guess I am proven wrong. If you don’t mind saying, what country are you from?

I am from Slovenia. We have had confusions with Slovakia, which is a source of a few jokes here, so just to disambuguate :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia