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THE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY INDEX – WHY ENGLISH SHOULDN’T BE THE SOLE DRIVER OF YOUR BUSINESS
You may be familiar with the English Proficiency Index (EPI). Published by Education First, the EPI is a yearly ranking of countries based on the English language skills of its denizens. At Nimdzi we cite it frequently – it is a good source of information (and inspiration for more in-depth country research too). For instance, the EPI […]
Wikipedia has a Google Translate problem
Smaller editions badly need a machine translation tool — but it isn’t good enough to use on its own Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wikipedia was founded with the aim of making knowledge freely available around the world — but right now, it’s mostly making it available in English. The English Wikipedia is […]
Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English
Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level. GETTY IMAGES This year marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there’s been a lot of pixels spilled on “the initial promises of the web”—one of which was the idea that you could select “view source” on any […]
