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

my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese

  • mkuznetsoff@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m born and live in Russia, but I use english everywhere, except for specific topics. And also I can’t read books on english yet

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    Most things are in German, but if something isn’t translated to German yet or I can’t be bothered to change it from English, it doesn’t bother me much to use it in English either.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    All my devices (PC, Smartwatch, Steam Deck etc) are in (British) English, with the exception of my phone, which is in my native German.

  • porompopmpom@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I usually keep all my settings in English. It makes it easier when you’re looking for help online when you need something

  • ghashul@feddit.dk
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    5 months ago

    I have everything in English, even though it is not my native language. It was what the versions of DOS were as a kid, and I got so used to it that using the Danish version seems odd to me.

  • klemptor@startrek.website
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    5 months 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
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      5 months 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.

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months 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

  • oktoberpaard@feddit.nl
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    4 months 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.

  • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months 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
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      4 months 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.

  • WanakaTree@lemm.ee
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    4 months 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
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    4 months 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.)

  • 🏴 hamid the villain [he/him] 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
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    4 months 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.