Formal language for the Community

#11

[quote=“rupinjohar, post:1, topic:64300”]
I realized may be its time to change the rules
[/quote]Wasn’t ever aware of any official rules.

Since the majority of users are English (I assume), I would think it would be easier to have the poster translate their text (via something like a simple online translator) prior to submitting it. We don’t care if it’s not proper English, as long as the point is being delivered. Those are just my thoughts, but I don’t think people should overreact to someone else for posting in another language, especially if they are new to the Community.

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#12

Personally I just ignore non-English.

Ignore does not mean anti, nor against.

So for me you’re welcome to use any language but realize you are going to be exchanging with fewer community members.

The other thing is getting Anker’s support, they are a Chinese homed business and they sell into specific countries so you’d be best using Chinese, English or one of the ones they sell into, of which many of them 2nd language is English anyway.

I would be against any anti-language rule, so against “English only” rule as that smacks of colonial arrogance. No. We can meet here in any language just know the above facts.

Arguably, if we were all to move to a different language it would be Chinese.

Wǒ xiànzài zuì hǎo kāishǐ xuéxí

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#13

My intention was not to talk about a specific incident but saying more generally that maybe its time for us to open our doors for other languages (based on several non english posts)

@ndalby - agree with your overall thought. yes some members do post non English comments in a jovial manner and there is nothing wrong in that. But then shouldn’t we let people post their problems/question in non-english as well ? Cannot have different rules for some members just because they are more senior/experienced/active members.

@ryandhazen - very well said. You have a valid point.

@joshuad11 - agreed maybe people use online translator. Generally we dont need to overreact if we see a post in non english language.

Overall, I think most of us tend to ignore non english comments because we dont undertand that language and not because we dont want to help.

It is a little surprising that Anker devices have its manual in multiple languages, giveaways are held for non english speaking countries, we all want Anker to be popular in all the countries but still this community is centered around English language.

Maybe its time to have some kind of translator in this message box or a separate section in this community for other languages. We want to have one Anker family where there is space for everyone (english and non english speakers).

Managing Multiple languages in a community will be a little challenging. But then we cannot expect to become a leader in a non english speaking country without letting people speak their language for help.

@AnkerOfficial, @fhassm what do you think ?

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#14

[quote=“rupinjohar, post:13, topic:64300”]
I think most of us tend to ignore non english comments because we dont undertand that language and not because we dont want to help
[/quote]100% agree. That or we’re too lazy to use an online translator ourselves :joy:

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@joshuad11 Guess its the latter unfortunately :slight_smile:

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#16

Same for me. I’m not comfortable communicating in Spanish anymore simply because I’m too rusty with it. That’s the only other language I’m vaguely familiar with, so anything that isn’t in English I just skip.

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#17

I totally agree with you. I tend to do the same. Sometimes I’ll use a translator but most of the time, I find myself just moving on to the next post. Therefore, if you want to use another language besides English, by all means, go ahead. Just don’t expect as many replies.

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#18

As far as I can recall no one has ever flat out said they can’t, it’s only been advised in replies to post in English to gain more uptake and responses…as mentioned by a few in this thread if it’s non-English often it’s ignored or skipped by them, which doesn’t really help with support for the user asking the question.

The majority of non-English thread’s I normally use a translator on, to support if possible and to make sure the poster is confirming to the general rules of the forum but as mentioned by a few a built in translator would be good…of which I believe there is a plugin for the Discourse platform, so perhaps it may make a appearance at some stage :wink:

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#19

I would keep the English language though I am German.

If someone has a question and he doesn’t speak English he might use a translator.
Not we should translate, HE should.

There are many languages in the world.

I am not willing to translate a question someone asked here.
I will simply ignore it.

When we allow to write statements in different languages it will lead to a huge confusion.

Mainly we are discussing technical problems, so English is easy to use for everybody.

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#20

Thank you for bringing in this discussion about multiple languages in the community. I can see many of you have mentioned the points that I want to say. We’re mainly using English as the communication language in this community because English is the most widely used language in most cases. We do understand there are people from other parts of world whose native language is not English, so we do not strictly restrict the usage of other languages. But I believe one of the main purpose that most of you come here is communication. Due to this factor, we think using English to communicate in this community will be much easier and more comfortable for most of the people. So we still recommend we all use English to communicate in this community for now. And we will consider opening multi-language sections in the future when this community grows bigger.

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#21

Haha your Chinese is not bad.

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#22

English is also generally taught in Asia. In China, many kids start to learn English even from the age of 3. :joy:

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#23

I agree @ndalby. If majority of our experienced community members tend to skip non english posts then we should either have a built-in translator or encourage people to repost in english after online translation. So that more people can help and respond to the questions.

Also agree with @fhassm that different languages here will lead to confusion and the onus of translation lies with the person putting out a post.

Maybe english is the language we may want to keep for now and when the time is right @AnkerOfficial will have more language specific sections in this community. :slight_smile:

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#24

Great. :thumbsup:Just saw your post. Lets keep English for now and we can think about more options as we grow bigger :slight_smile:

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#25

As the majority here are from US we should use English.
I was asking if there are more German members here.

I met only two who are “true and eager forumners”.

So there is no need to open a German section. :grin:

#26

That’s good news.

So really, unless your older than @fhassm people would have been taught English in schools.

Now I’m not saying they’re as proficient as us native speakers, but still they have a grasp of it.

Obviously, only us Brits speak the official “queen’s English” :grin::crazy_face::mask::mask::mask::mask:

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#27

I am the eldest by age but not of wisdom of course! :joy:
Not speaking “Queen’s English”, “Kraut English” only!

#28

I speak three languages, including Spanish, I think it’s not bad that forums are created in that language, would be an opportunity for others to learn a little that language, “siempre y cuando las palabras no ofendan a los demás miembros”

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#29

Wenn Du auch Deutsch sprichst, können wir uns ja gerne auf Deutsch unterhalten!:heart_eyes:

Estou a falar um pouquinho Portugues tambem, por isso podemos abrir um seccao em Portugues. Todos os Brasilieros e Portugueses vao gostar. :heart_eyes:

No, better let’s keep English!

#30

Hi people,
I´m from Spain, at the moment, I hope to be Catalán of the Republic of Catalonia one day :sweat_smile:
Seriosly, I think It is good can write in different languages. I have many friends with no idea of english. They never read or write in english. And Is this good for Anker? I think not. This kind of people never go to read reviews at english web pages.

Why not to open differents sections with other languages?. People from Spain with no english acknowledge can directly go to this section and read some reviews or information besides Amazon review.

TX