Chapter 17: Tux Speaks Your Language

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Overview

Linux for Multilingual Users and Language Learners

These days, almost all operating systems are, at least to some degree, multilingual or capable of becoming so. This is true of Linux as well. Just open your Web browser and you can read, without performing any special installations, pages in any European language, including those with Cyrillic alphabets, such as Russian. You can even view pages in Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew, to name but a few, with only a tad more effort.

But the multilingual capabilities of Linux are much greater than this, and the way that Fedora Core has things set up makes it quite easy to take advantage of these capabilities. As you will soon see, you can even set up your system to give you a totally foreign language environment, allowing you to function completely in the language of your choice. Add to this the ever-expanding number of free programs available for language study, and you have a truly meaningful language-learning tool.

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