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Ask HN: Do you have any language barriers that impede your business?
4 points by rlau1115 on Dec 23, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Looking to understand what types of problems and experiences you have related to language - anywhere from international customer service, multi-lingual teams, interacting with vendors/suppliers, and etc.

Currently doing design research for a project, so I'd love to hear about what problems you face.



Not really a problem I'm having myself right now but I know that many European eCommerce companies (startups and established players alike) struggle with offering their products in other EU member countries.

This is only partially a language problem. Differences in culture and regulations, tax laws etc. play a large role as well, which really is a shame because that's what the EU to a large part is about: Removing regulatory barriers in order to allow for a single European market.

So unfortunately, it's not as easy as just getting i18n right, although that's still not an exactly easy-to-solve problem in its own right.


Main problems lies in different versions of english. Sometimes we try to understand client same things that he want us :)




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