Designing for people reading in their second language

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Most people using the products I work on are preparing for a US licensing exam in a language that isn't The thing I keep relearning: they are not bad at the test. The test is being delivered through a Every bit of that layer you remove goes straight into their score. Here is what I've learned about removing it. "Which of the following is not required when…" A fluent reader handles this without noticing. A second-language reader has to hold the entire option Official exam material is full of negation and you often can't change that — but everything around it Double negation — "which is not perm

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