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I'm curious about how the LLMs handle non English languages. Is it good? Does it work well with hard/advanced content?

If you don't mind me asking, what languages do you speak? Which do you use when interacting with LLMs?

It works surprisingly well, I’d say it gives better results than Google Translate. I can say that German, Spanish, and even Hungarian results are all consistently good. I often say “answer in English, German, and Hungarian” when I want to make sure I practice all these languages and I can discuss some topics in any language. I usually write in English, and add if it should answer in other languages.

At least in the major Indo-European languages, I think Gemini 2.5 Pro is _much_ better at translation than Google Translate.

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