How's your Spanish? Build Spanish into your product or else (theweek.com)

5 points by egiva 15y ago ↗ HN

Latest Census data shows a booming Hispanic population in the US with 43% growth over 10 years. I think that building Spanish into your product is necessary to be successful in the 10 years to come!

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sgt 15y ago ↗

I'm all of internationalization. I always try to design programs so they can be translatable on the fly, even if I only start off with one language (being English).

julianz 15y ago ↗

"I'm all of internationalization"? I'd be fascinated to read your comment in English.

sgt 15y ago ↗

Sorry, bit of a typo there :-)

Hoff 15y ago ↗

Muy engañosa. Misleading title. I see no references to languages in an article on a shift in US demographics.

There are a wide variety of local languages in the US.

Here in New England, French (Québécois) was the first language of folks in a number of the local towns, and I now tend to hear more Portuguese than Spanish in the local area.

As with anything else, TANSTAAFL. Know your market and your target customers' preferred language(s), and make the appropriate trade-offs around the costs of implementing and maintaining language variants.