# Englisch bloggen?

- Link: https://www.kuechenserver.org/2008/08/03/englisch-bloggen/
- Published: 2008-08-03T22:08:44+02:00
- Author: Christian Krakau-Louis

A few weeks ago, I recieved an email from my Amercian exchange partner. The last
contact we had was about 11 years ago and he wanted to catch up with things over
here in Germany.

I found out while reading his mail that he was married, moved to a „cheaper more
affordable“ but very boring place I can’t even remember and is the proud dad of 
a 5 year old daughter.

I would have loved to just send him the link to my blog so that he can catch up 
with my life outside the big facts and just follow my thougts, ideas, things that
anoy me and things that strike my mind every now and then. I instantly wondered 
how blogging in English would help with this.

Whoever knows me a wee bit better knows that it takes some time for me to process
such thoughts. While being at a even more boring place than Ben’s deep down in Bavaria
for the weekend, I thought about an ex-customer I like very much and whom I’d love
to give the opportunity to follow my life as well. Unfortunatelly, Gwenael is a 
french native speaker (and based in France as well), so we always had to communicate
in English.

The main reason I once started this blog is to give people who have an interest 
in me the opportunity to follow my life even from a distance. This includes ex-colleagues,
ex-girlfriends and ex-classmates of mine as well as people I ran into over the years.
So, switching the language to give people regardless of their native language this
opportunity would be the main reason for blogging in English.

On the other hand, there are quite a few points for sticking to the German language.
I have heared (even at the weekend, even from a person I didn’t even know from that
he was reading my blog on a regular basis – Hi Brian, by the way) that people like
my blog for the way I write. I fear that this „style“ will get lost if I use a language
who isn’t my native one.

I as well fear that there are a few frequent readers who find understanding written
English, especially when not produced by a native speaker more annoying / exhausting/
difficult than reading German. And, I am not sure if even all of my readers do understand
the English language to a degree necessary to read this blog after switching.

So I am wondering if I should change the main language of my weblog to English. 
Of course, I wouldn’t like to do that before asking my current readership for their
opinion.

**Use the comments! You should by now pretty well know how to do so.**

[Deutsche Version: Ich überlege, demnächst nur noch in Englisch zu bloggen. Dazu
würde ich gerne Eure Meinung hören]

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