Monday 4 October 2010

English bias on the Internet

These last few weeks I've been traveling in Italy, occasionally connecting by internet and email with folks back home. The advantage we have as English speaking professional is significant. English is the most popular foreign language, and while it may not be the language spoken by the most people, it is definitely the world’s largest "second" language and by far the first language of the internet.

There may be a growing number of international websites in mandarin, arabic, spanish and portuguese many of the established sites cater to english

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