Choosing a blogging language.

As I wrote in my previous post, I'll try to sum up why I've chosen to use English language in this blog. Complexity is a global issue, so my target audience is a broad one. My language choice should take that into account. Next I'll try to summarize the pros and cons of using different languages:

	Pros	Contras
English	Broad reader base Large heterogeneous audience	Few of my fellow citizens or friends follow English blogs on a regular basis There are tons of high quality blogs written in English thus it's hard to compete
Spanish	Large reader base	Very few non Latins read Spanish blogs
Catalan	Easy for me to write in homogeneous reader base few blogs so better chance to being read	Extremely narrow audience
French	Large french reader base	Hard for me to write in French. very limited impact outside of french culture.
Multilanguage	Biggest potential audience	Too much work automated translation not a feasible option

All in all, I've decided to steak to English language even though it's not my mother tongue because of the broad reader base and in spite the stated contras.

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Choosing a blogging language.

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