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Should I answer questions in Portuguese or English?
I think we should answer questions in the same language they were asked - if someone ask something in English, it's probably because they're not too comfortable in doing it in Portuguese, so answering ...
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Should we use English or Portuguese on tags?
You can get some ideas from the same question in spanish.stackexchange.
The current situation is that almost all tags are in Spanish, but descriptions are in both languages (spanish + english).
I ...
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Should we use English or Portuguese on tags?
tag language on other language sites
Italian.SE (English)
Russian.SE Russian
Chinese.SE (English)
Spanish.SE Spanish
French.SE French
Japanese.SE (English)
German.SE (English)
...
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Should we use English or Portuguese on tags?
As a learner of Portuguese, having come from an English background, I believe the tags should be synonyms. As a person who has a question about something in Portuguese, I inevitably will tag my ...
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What's the benefit for a person learning Portuguese if the majority of questions is not in English?
Full immersion language learning is a strong learning tool.
That is one benefit.
Counter-example to japanese SE: german SE, where many questions are in German.
It might have to do with StackExchange ...
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What's the benefit for a person learning Portuguese if the majority of questions is not in English?
A similar question has been asked during the commitment phase, here: Default Language for Questions in Portuguese Language
I believe that the answer to that questions answers the majority of your ...
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Write titles in two languages or not?
Having both languages in the title gets crowded. It makes it harder to quickly scan a list of question titles. Someone who is reading quickly might miss the second half of the title anyway.
Therefore ...
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Should I answer questions in Portuguese or English?
I'm Spanish and I can read almost anything in Portuguese, but I can hardly ever write it without the help of a translator (google). I usually would try to ask in Portuguese, but to also add English; ...
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What's the benefit for a person learning Portuguese if the majority of questions is not in English?
From the definition phase of the proposal.
Beta Q&A site for linguists, teachers and learners wanting to discuss the finer points of the Portuguese language.
Looking at questions, more than ...
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What's the benefit for a person learning Portuguese if the majority of questions is not in English?
Regarding what to do for the rest of private beta...
Please note firstly that I'm referring to the questions here in this private beta until the graduation to the public beta. After this, the users ...
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Should we use English or Portuguese on tags?
One of the solutions pointed out so far (actually in the form of a duplicate which was closed later on) is to go and restrain our set of tags to Portuguese names, burninating those in English (such as ...
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What's the benefit for a person learning Portuguese if the majority of questions is not in English?
I also don't see a problem, as long as it's clear to newcomers that questions in English are welcomed.
Don't forget that Portuguese and English, for all their differences, share many:
words that ...
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Should I answer questions in Portuguese or English?
Well, if the question was asked in Portuguese, answer in Portuguese. If it was asked in English, answer in English, because probably the user who asked the question in English doesn't know Portuguese ...
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What's the benefit for a person learning Portuguese if the majority of questions is not in English?
From your question:
[...] But that's becoming the opposite of this site's proposal, that is to be a good source of information in just one place for people learning Portuguese. But if a great part ...
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In which language the questions should be asked?
Searching a little bit more i found the answer in help topics:
https://portuguese.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
Should I write in portuguese or english?
Both languages are accepted. If you are ...
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Should I answer questions in Portuguese or English?
Has everyone said we should answer the question with the language that was used to make the question.
The problem is, you will get questions that are duplicated but in diffrent languages, take this ...
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