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I live in sweden and talk swedish. This courses teach me what all things are called like Methods,Objects,Printstream and so on. Will i be able to get a job in sweden as a programmer if i dont even know the swedish java terms? If not is it easy to learn?
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12,382 PointsWell... I'm Dutch and we simply use the English terms here (I hardly even know any development terms in Dutch). Anyway - I don't see why you shouldn't be able to get a job in Sweden if you don't know the terms in Swedish.
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi quexin ! I also live in Sweden. I have a couple of colleagues/friends here who are also developers. What I've found is that in many cases there are no Swedish terms for some of these things. Generally speaking, when a word is very close to its English equivalent then they might spell or pronounce it in the Swedish form. For example, "objekt" and "object" , "metod" and "method", and "klass" and "class". These are just some examples.
But in some cases, the English equivalent differs greatly in spelling and pronunciation from how a Swede might say it. In those cases, they've generally adopted the English version. I'd be willing to say that you're more likely to not get a job if you don't know the English version than the Swedish as there doesn't seem to be a consensus on what the Swedish term should be.
Also, if you check out KTH or Nackademin and some other technical schools you'll see that they generally require English B at the "gymnasium" level to even apply to the courses. This is because a good deal of your course material/literature will be in English. From what I know, a developer in Sweden is expected to know the English terms as there is no standard for the Swedish terms for these things.
Good luck to you!
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,859 PointsJason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,859 PointsTagging: Jennifer Nordell for input. :)