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One day after I got my Nokia 5

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I believe so, from Android 4.3 they supported Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and a few other Southern African languages.

Most Afrikaans people use English, but you would have a hard time finding a device in Italy, France, Germany, etc. that runs in English. I've started using Afrikaans on my devices and you get used to it very quickly.
 
The Steam game I decided to buy on Wednesday, but held off on, going on 50% discount this weekend. Saved some money and get to play it this weekend - Yay!
 
Rouxenator said:
Most Afrikaans people use English, but you would have a hard time finding a device in Italy, France, Germany, etc. that runs in English. I've started using Afrikaans on my devices and you get used to it very quickly.
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All the European devices that I’ve seen work in all the European languages.

My iPhone - bought in France - is in English for example.
 
Rouxenator said:
I believe so, from Android 4.3 they supported Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and a few other Southern African languages.

Most Afrikaans people use English, but you would have a hard time finding a device in Italy, France, Germany, etc. that runs in English. I've started using Afrikaans on my devices and you get used to it very quickly.
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When watching sports personalities from those countries do interviews at an international event, 80% of them also do it in their Native language because they can't speak English. It's better to be multilingual. I'm Afrikaans but my tech stuff is all in English.

In an Afrikaans school, we had Afrikaans textbooks for Rekenaarstudie, but many requested the manual in English because Afrikaans ruins the terminology, it doesn't sound right.
 
Ho3n3r said:
When watching sports personalities from those countries do interviews at an international event, 80% of them also do it in their Native language because they can't speak English.
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Usually, they can’t even speak their own language properly (particularly soccer players).
 
My point is that if the Europeans use technology in their native languages then so should we - to a point. I am not going to use Afrikaans variable names in my code (I did that while studying) but I like the majority of apps on my machine in Afrikaans.

I do recall that rubbish text book we had for computer science, it was titled Rekenaarstudie - die feite and it was riddled with mistakes so we called it Rekenaarstudie - die leuns.
 
Rouxenator said:
My point is that if the Europeans use technology in their native languages then so should we - to a point. I am not going to use Afrikaans variable names in my code (I did that while studying) but I like the majority of apps on my machine in Afrikaans.

I do recall that rubbish text book we had for computer science, it was titled Rekenaarstudie - die feite and it was riddled with mistakes so we called it Rekenaarstudie - die leuns.
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Sorry, I misread. I thought you were saying that a french or Spanish device cannot be configured in English!
 
f2wohf said:
Sorry, I misread. I thought you were saying that a french or Spanish device cannot be configured in English!
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Yeah, I figured that is what happened. I never had issues with my phones brought from Orange. Although their update notifications were not languaged and while the rest of the phone was fine in English the update change log was in French :p
 
Rouxenator said:
Yeah, I figured that is what happened. I never had issues with my phones brought from Orange. Although their update notifications were not languaged and while the rest of the phone was fine in English the update change log was in French :p
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Never had Orange as my provider (or phone supplier) so can’t say if it’s common or not.

It didn’t happen on my phones from other providers.
 
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