Easy Rust in Korean is 70 videos long so far, great response in Korea
I'm getting close to the halfway point of recording my Easy Rust videos in Korean (playlist here) and the response has been quite good so far. I originally wrote the book in straightforward English for people with English as a second language or those who just want information first, verbosity second. But oftentimes it takes content in your own language for a concept to click, and that's what I've seen in the comments so far.
Because the vast majority of Rust content is in English, I also spend time in the videos explaining the wording and documentation, and this is helping people who are using English content to finally understand it. One comment from yesterday for example:
"외국Rust 원서책 볼때 assert나와서 이게 뭐지 싶어서 cargo run 해도 아무것도 안나와서 궁금했는데 완전 다 해결 됐습니다. print해서 볼 수 있는걸 코드안에서 미리 볼수 있는 기능이였군요 ^^; 이제 원서로 된 영어 Rust Cook Book 을 볼 수 있게 되서 감사합니다. 역시 알면 알수록 Rust 사랑 스럽습니다. .^^; 아마존에서 영어로 된Rust책을 볼수 있습니다. ㅠㅠ 거의 전시물 수준있던 책들이 이제 빛을 보게 되었습니다."
"I saw assert in the English Rust books I have and wondered what it was, hit cargo run and nothing happened, and I wondered what it was but this completely clears it up. [...] Now I can understand the Rust Cook Book, thanks for that. Rust is a language that just gets better (lit. lovable) the more you know it. I can understand the English Rust book I got on Amazon now. My books that had just been gathering dust are now starting to see the light again."
This is starting to make me think that (until there is sufficient content in every language) the best approach might be a pipeline of sorts. You have the following:
On one end: content in another person's language - maybe enough, most likely not.
On the other end: all the content in no holds barred English. Nearly limitless resource if your English is fluent.
In between that I put together the book in Easy English which I think hits the sweet spot for developers who can get through the no holds barred content with effort but probably miss a lot and prefer to not even read it if possible.
But in between that and the native language content I guess there's another space where people that just aren't getting it when explained in English will need an extra push, and after that it will start to make sense.
Basically something like this:
Outright native language translations and content -- native language with focus on understanding English documentation -- easy English materials -- The Book (not strictly simplified English but very readable) -- everything else
tl;dr: recording these videos is definitely worth it, and maybe there are some other languages you all know that could use some videos too to give viewers the familiarity they need to jump in!