What breaks when you ship to ten locales at once

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I localized a mobile app into ten languages. Most of what I'd read beforehand was about how to These are the mistakes I actually made. This is the one I'd undo first. The quiz content — the part users came for — got translated properly. The surrounding interface did The result is worse than an English-only app, because it sets an expectation and then breaks it.

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