Everyone keeps answering based on the comfort zone, but not on the end of learning to conduct an international business so please read what I have to say on this as someone who has done business online and globally for over a decade.
In many ways having separate language forums hurts your PSA who speaks little English.
Experts agree that to learn a language to the point of being conversational in it you need to submerge yourself in the language. You need to use it daily and naturally until it becomes as familiar as your own. When you break off into a native language forum and only frequent sites in your own tongue the progress learning English is slowed or stopped.
Once that happens your global business becomes a local or regional business where only people who speak your native language can join your team. That's real bad for people in small countries with a very low population.
Access to Forum Guru's.
A committee of people has been selected to vote for the most helpful and well informed people posting to the forums to help new members know who to trust in a case where two members are giving them a completely different answer to the same problem. These Experts have spent years learning online marketing and specifically the SFI Program and their advice can save your team thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of misspent labor, but since they tend to hang out more in the main forum and aren't necessarily versed in more than one language your Country or Region may not have a Forum Guru available that speaks in your native tongue.
There are cases it helps though, so I am not opposed to having this change in any way.
It helps when people have no English Language skills and can find someone more knowledgeable in English to study their training materials with. Google Translate tries but can not translate all words and expressions. It also can help by allowing common tips and information to be written in a native language for future reference but I am afraid if the same trend of the forum being 90% questions and 10% training post continues in these forums as well those truly life changing post might be lost on the masses with only a few knowing their locations or existence.
The ultimate goal though is for us all to become better at communicating outside our comfort zone.
I myself am trying to learn more Spanish as time permits and once I do that I am thinking of learning one of the Russian languages, Italian, Chinese, or Japanese. I can use Spanish pretty readily here in Arizona so it should be easiest to learn with our largely Mexican population. Being bi-lingual here would explode my local recruiting efforts.
Being bi-lingual at a minimum opens my business to many more markets and makes it easier to recruit global ECA and Personally Referred Members. My eye is on getting as many of the 2 billion online shoppers world wide tto join TripleClicks as possible because finding PSA is so much easier when people know you make a lot of money doing it.
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Everyone keeps answering based on the comfort zone, but not on the end of learning to conduct an international business so please read what I have to say on this as someone who has done business online and globally for over a decade.
In many ways having separate language forums hurts your PSA who speaks little English.
Experts agree that to learn a language to the point of being conversational in it you need to submerge yourself in the language. You need to use it daily and
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