i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian

my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese

  • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
    361·
    7 days ago

    I keep my OSs set in English, although it’s not my native language. Simply, because most articles and forum posts for troubleshooting are in english and it makes translating sub-menu titles obsolete

    • Crotaro@beehaw.org
      1·
      6 days ago

      This is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)

  • 🏴 hamid the villain [he/him] 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
    4·
    6 days ago

    Persian is my mother tongue but the most disappointing day in my life is when I realized I dreamed in English because it has been my primary language most of my life. I honestly don’t even know if I can set lemmy to Persian, I’ve never checked.

    edit: well, how about that you can.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    Regardless what i do, the results are shit. If i set language to English, it tries to present me with English tranlations of German YouTubers, if i set it to German, it tries to translate English YouTubers to German. Both kinds of tranlations suck.

  • oktoberpaard@feddit.nl
    5·
    6 days ago

    I used to have everything set to English (my second language), but nowadays I use Spanish when available (third language). I use my native language only for a handful of local apps and websites if Spanish is unavailable.

  • WanakaTree@lemm.ee
    3·
    6 days ago

    I’m an American who is decent at German, living back in the US again. I set whatever I can to German to maintain my exposure to it, sometimes to my own confusion and detriment

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    I’ve got my stuff in Japanese. Just trying my best to keep it sharp and not let English kick it out of my brain (which it is aggressively trying to do.)

  • Suppoze@beehaw.org
    6·
    7 days ago

    I am Hungarian, but everything I use is in English. As a software developer it’s basically the language of my work and I started consuming media in English at a young age.

  • klemptor@startrek.website
    6·
    7 days ago

    I’m a native English speaker but my phone and fitbit are in French. I minored in French in college and I’m trying to shake off the rust.

    • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
      4·
      7 days ago

      My phone and YouTube are in French, everything else is in English. No idea why YouTube (and only YouTube, not google, gmail, etc) is French, one day it was and I’ve never put in the effort to change it.

      Native English speaker also.

  • AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
    4·
    6 days ago

    I’m so used to seeing English everywhere that I actually have trouble navigating things like settings in my native Serbian.

  • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Native Spanish and English speaker, Lemmy settings are in Spanish. I’m used to my settings being in Spanish because I grew up in South America with electronics naturally being set to Spanish.

    Also, when I’d go to Google something for my friends, it was more efficient to have them read it, rather than just translating.

    • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      For example:

      I remember someone asking me about religion in Poland (they were Polish and didn’t know and also didn’t have their phone with them) so they asked me to look it up. It was more efficient, like I said, to just have them read this.

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    6 days ago

    I just want to comment on how good Gboard is with multiple languages that share a keyboard (or nearly do). It’s gonna be the hardest thing to give up in my slow de googling process.

    I used to have English/Spanish and now English/Danish. It will autocorrect mostly to whichever mode you’re in first, but will do some and not fight you on the secondary. Very good for like a conversation in English but an address in another language.

    I don’t think it adds anything to my Japanese keyboard layout, just have to swap each way