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I don't think translating the language itself makes that much of a difference. What most beginning hackers really need is the ability to search and read forum posts and code from a bunch of advanced hackers who already went through the problems they're having. Obviously English has the most depth in this regard. Chinese and Russian might be "deep enough" to get you to a decent level.

Beyond those three languages, I get the sense it drops off very quickly. I wouldn't want to be a monolingual Mongolian or Estonian trying to get Haskell help during a late night coding session, for example ...

some previous discussion on a similar topic here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=894489



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