In Thailand, many local meetups talks are spoken in Thai language. That doesn’t mean it can’t reach an international audience.
When I present at meetups, I speak Thai, as it’s easier to get the message across to my primary audience in Thai. However, I also do these to “internationalize” my talks when publishing the video to YouTube:
- Talk is in Thai, but slides are in English.
- Add English subtitles to the video. The first draft can be automated.
- Add localized titles and descriptions to the video.
Inspirations
- Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games — The spoken language is Japanese, but all the text is in English. He also has a second channel with the same content in Japanese.
- CodeWithHarry — Even though he has a second channel which is English only, yet in his main channel where he speaks in Hindi, all on-screen text is in English.
Results
- “Higher-Order Components and Recompose” (2016)
- A viewer commented and I quote: “I don't speak the language however, I found his presentation to be excellent.”