Not long ago I watched a free software developer totally lose his cool with a user who (admittedly very frustratingly) posted a 'bug report'in Spanish on an English-language project that amounted to 'it doesn't work'.
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Using KVocTrain to Build Your Foreign Language Vocabulary
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