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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Eli5: how does coding work if you don't speak English?

So I'm starting to learn some basic coding and everything I've seen so far has a base and reference in English. (For example return, or if/else) It's made me curious, if you're a coder who doesn't speak English are there other versions of common coding languages or do you learn the already in English commands?
gpt
You only need a very basic understanding of English to program in it. You just need to learn the alphabet and a small number of keywords (most programming languages have no more than a few dozen keywords). 

As a side note, English is the "lingua franca" of the software world. Programmers are usually required to know English.