Does it help when English is your primary language?

[Elledan]

I was just wondering while I was coding PHP: Would learning to code go faster if English is your primary language?

Since most languages are basically English, it seems quite logic to me...

What are your thoughts?

[Nicky]

I am learning PHP so I couldn't tell you about that, but I remember when I was an undergraduate at University I used to site next to a Spanish girl in my C class and she was coding fine, but all her variable names were in Spanish!

[Son Nguyen]

I just learned English intensively (living in a English speaking country!) for about 1yr, but I feel PHP coding is fine.

PHP has common words too, so it is not really a problem to a non-English speaker.
Actually when coding, I never used my primary language as variable names!

[Michel V]

When i coded Basic apps on my Amstrad CPC in the late '80s, i couldn't speak english yet... But that never stopped me