English may not be the world's most spoken language, but most people tend to manage with English if they must (or so it seems) -- there are any number of lists / forums where the poster claims poor English, yet they post very well.
Personally, I think it would be better for all help information and webpage applications to have language options to suit.
Having multiple forums would cause some posts / threads on issues and interesting topics to only be done in one language [other than English] and some of those posts / threads could be more univerally appreciated. Although there is an answer for this.... see below.
If multiple forums end up existing, then I would like to see at least one person on each forum that is able to translate posts and where appropriate, post an English version [and vice versa] so that both forums can benefit. This way, there is more chance of a good thread being available to benefit anyone, instead of getting lost on one forum. Not every post / thread would need to be translated, but hopefully at least a summary if the post / thread is universally interesting enough....
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