Let’s get this straight. I have been living in London for past 6 years and my English still sucks. Do not get me wrong. I can understand 95% of conversion and I can usually tell what is in my mind. But when it comes to writing the result is very bad. I have been blogging for past 4 years and it did not seems to help me a lot.
I get this message quite a lot. “I like your design but your bed grammar just spoils it”
. I know the person is right. What can I do about it?
There are so many of us out there trying to be web entrepreneurs. Thinking about business ideas and learning various web languages so we could actually execute. The competition is huge. So here comes the point. I am trying hard, very hard. I mean, I am trying hard to learn all the possible web languages which can get me where I want to get but I am not trying hard to learn English. Why? Simply because there is not that much time and it is not where my passion is. English is my second language and despite the fact that it is one of the easiest languages it is still hard to learn it properly. I am curios how much does my language devalue the message I am trying to present?
It must be quite difficult for English or American people when they came to a site which does not use proper language. The incorrect grammar must destruct the user and the overly feelings is probably not the same as it would be if the grammar was right.
I can’t test this on myself in Slovak language because we have almost no foreign people living in Slovakia and not even blogging (or writing) in Slovak language.
Just to stay positive at the end. I can see from my analytics data that people come to visit my blog from the whole world so English is for them second language as well. I guess it is not such a big problem for them, but maybe I am wrong. Their English might be lot better so they might not enjoy it.
Solution
I am working on my first commercial web application right now and I am seriously considering to hire copy-righter to get the messages out in a correct way.
Do you have experience with it? What is your thought about it?
