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Writing an article in English or another Language?

Bernardo Teixeira
2 min readMay 7, 2020

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Maybe you want to start writing articles? Maybe you just have the curiosity?

Keep in mind, too keep going you need to build a community or some type of target.

Before you choose the language you have to choose your target, like write articles about programming, plant, animals, etc…

After that make some math.

Top 8 languages in the world, by the number of speakers:

  1. Mandarin, 918 million.
  2. Spanish, 480 million.
  3. English, 375 million.
  4. Hindi, 341 million.
  5. Bengali, 228 million.
  6. Portuguese, 221 million.
  7. Russian, 154 million.
  8. Japanese, 128 million.

Now, don´t expect that everyone who speaks your language will read your article. Why? Easy question, they can just miss the article, they don’t care about your article, etc…

My trial

I write an article in English and Portuguese. I release both articles on the same date. I used different groups but with almost the same numbers of members(15000 members). I used Facebook and…

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Bernardo Teixeira
Bernardo Teixeira

Written by Bernardo Teixeira

Software Engineer.. Red Panda Lover

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