Comments on: If English is your Second Language – Which Language Do You Blog in?

By: Efrain

Efrain — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:02:46 +0000

How do you blog in Spanish and get the spelling, grammar and accents corrections?

Efrain

By: Marisa

Marisa — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:06:22 +0000

I am a citizen of the world and I blog in English!

Regards.

By: wisetranslations

wisetranslations — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:03:37 +0000

My parent’s teached me how to speak French. But most of the time, we speak English.

I’ve chosen to blog in french-english because I feel that I can help a lot of people who want to learn these languages.

By: snwop

snwop — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:33:35 +0000

My mother’s tongue is Spanish and I blog in Spanish. I have never thought of writing my blog in English, though other blogs I have in mind, maybe. In any case, as I can see from ClustrMaps, lots of people from Europe and America are reading me, so I guess that the language is appropriate.

By: Genesis

Genesis — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:17:14 +0000

My first language is English, I´m Canadian, but I have lived in Guatemala for 5 years and my husband is Guatemalan, so we speak mostly Spanish. Because of this, I have four blogs in English and am starting one in Spanish.

The truth is that the English market is bigger, but for niche blogs, other languages often offer untapped markets which I feel may be more valuable in the long run.

By: Papa Shongo

Papa Shongo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:17:36 +0000

It’s a tough one. French is my first language but I live in New York and so choose to blog in English as it is the language that most of my audience speaks. One thing I do is post an entry twice, once in English and then French, but only when I feel that the topic discussed is pertinent to both groups. I blog about Africans in New York so some issues might be more relevant to francophones in Africa as opposed to the other English speaking folks.

By: Javier Ferrand

Javier Ferrand — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:58:52 +0000

Actually, what made me go blogging in the first place was the fact that although there are many interesting blogs and websites about the topics I’m interested in (productivity, personal development, good habits, personal finances, entrepreneurship, motivation, spirituality, etc.), the options in Spanish are not so great, then I chose to blog in Spanish.

I feel I can be a bridge for people who don’t speak English to get great useful content only found in English. It is a way of sharing knowledge with a lot of people who don’t have the chance to get it another way. I feel I’m contributing.

By: Jorge Diaz

Jorge Diaz — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:29:01 +0000

I constantly have that dilemma. I started my blog (innovapixel.com) writting in Spanish, then i decided to writte in English. I think i am going to writte on english only :)

If you are blogging for money, you definitely have to writte in English, because there are a lot of companies that offer monetization for your sites/blogs. You have more reach too.

I tell you this because i created a blog recently about Apple News, its:

http://www.thedailymac.com

I started this blog recently, and now i have like 500 visitors daily :) . So thats why you should blog in English.

Ask yourself a question. Are you blogging for money?

Then writte in English. :)

By: Erik Willumsgaard

Erik Willumsgaard — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:30:05 +0000

I am Danish, having more blogs in both Danish and English, but I have it a little like Nicole Simon (German) have it, when writing:

“All in all – it is not going to be easy and as I said, there is always this feeling “i should have written it in the other language” ;)”

But when I blog about Danish politics or the city planning in Copenhagen, there’s of course no doubt about the (Danish) language!

By: Norbert Evenich

Norbert Evenich — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:05:51 +0000

I’m Hungarian and I write for Hungarian Linux users, so I use my native language. Although you can reach more people with English, but it depends on your target audience.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:52:27 +0000

My mother tongue is spanish and I started my blog in spanish but after 7 months I received few visitors, so I decided to change to english and since then the visitors grow up. I think this is because the technology is easier to get and use on countries like USA, Canada, Europe, etc. rather than latinamerican countries, so this is why there are more english spoken users, of course this is only my opinion.

By: Tonda

Tonda — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:36:40 +0000

I blog in Czech language, whitch is my native language. Once I tried to translate few my articles into english, but I was too bored by doing that.

By: Raffi

Raffi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:15:21 +0000

I blog in Armenian and in English. I used to blog and write more in Armenian, but the audience that I have are more comfortable in English. Now 30% is in Armenian and 70% in English

By: Celso Lemes

Celso Lemes — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:06:54 +0000

I´m a Brazilian, and my blogs are in Portuguese.
As some people have said before, the english speakers are bigger than the other languages, so I think we could spread our blog for a bigger audience.
But I also see a problem with that. Because english is a more spoken language, surelly ther will be more blogs in your niche, so it will be harder to get piece of cake.

I pretend to create a blog in english versions in the future, but for now my english is not that goog to start a project of this kind.

By: Milla

Milla — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:04:11 +0000

I have 4 blogs in Spanish. Main one has an “English version” using Babel Fish. It is nothing like Oxford perfect english of course, but using a little good will it could be understood. Of course everyone wants millions of readers. Of course. However, my point here is that we other-than-English-spoken-bloggers –whether we like it or not– have a certain amount of responsibility in changing the actual balance of the language of the audiences. What would happen if everybody started writing English and English only? I am with Fernando, Spanish is the future! :-)

By: Paweł Kata (Oszczędzanie pieniędzy)

Paweł Kata (Oszczędzanie pieniędzy) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:10:41 +0000

I blog in Polish, although i’m planning to translate some posts into english and publicize them in “English” category.

By: Rolf F. Katzenberger

Rolf F. Katzenberger — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:31:20 +0000

My blog Evomend (on self-development) is bilingual, I’m writing in English and in German. In general, I translate the postings within 2 days or so. Sometimes, the original gets written in English, next time in German.

No big issues, but sometimes its hard to find equivalent URLs for the sites I mention, in the respective other language.

By: martin

martin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:10:22 +0000

I´m from Argentina as well, and blog in English AND Spanish, though mostly in English. Depends on the subject I´m blogging about, sometimes it´s easier to get the message across in English, but when talking about regional things, Spanish works better.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:57:18 +0000

Hi,

I must agree with the first blogger: I am a native Dutch speaker and blog in English to have more audience. Although I plan on translating some good English sites into Dutch.

By: XmasB

XmasB — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:33:27 +0000

I write my blog in norwegian. I have often wondered about switchin to english, but I like the little community that exists in Norway. There aren’t too many blogs in norwegian. It would probably be easier to get more readers in english, based on numbers alone. But so far I’m writing in norwegian.