English or Native Language for Your Youtube Channel? 

Thanks! I can't believe someone did a video about this.. I'm thinking between Thai or English.

This advice is really good, I started making videos in Spanish this year but decided that I will switch to English to force myself to learn more and reach out to more people 👍, thanks for the advice.

It's amazing that you made a video about this. I was thinking about this. I want to reach bigger audience, but I know I won't attract audience from my country, Arabic speaking audience. Thank you and all the best

I LOVE YOUR ACCENT ! 💛 and as you said it doesn't change the value of the message. Plus it makes us feel like we get a sense of who you are with your identity and its lovely.

I think I will use english for a while, and see the what's going on , thank you 👍. Some message for you guys : Do what you love everyday no matter how little, when you are doing what you love, everything will come easily, so just focus on your content and have fun ✌️

Hi, I‘m so glad that I have found your video, even if my „problem“ is somehow more difficult: I already own my RU-vid channel since five years and have built up my community by speaking german. So on one hand I can‘t just swich my language because I think much people would be disappointed. On the other hand I start to realize that the german language may be a reason why my channels growth has slowed down and I will never be able to reach much more people. So I am thinking about starting a second, english speaking channel. I was even thinking about expanding my contet, because my maintopic (amusement parks) for sure also restricts my target group. But I‘m not sure wheater I would have the time to bring enough content on both of my channels. I spend really much time on producing my videos because I want to get the best out of them. I don‘t know if I would get happy with a second channel. Maybe it‘s just time to accept that I can‘t grow any further on RU-vid. Or maybe I should just give this a try. I‘ll only find out if this works if I try! ;-) I‘m sorry. I didn‘t want to spam your video, but it was nice to share my thoughts. :)

This helped me so much, thank you. To be honest, I want my channel to be in Romanian, because that’s my narative language. But online, I have more English friends rather than Romanian ones. And this is the reason why my channel is in both languages. Your video made me wanna do both. God bless everyone! 😌❤️

I don't think my English is too bad, i'm just really scared when I'm speaking because I might mispronounce smth or IDK

Thank you so much !! I can't believe I found someone's channel who's talking about this topic. I was confused on which language to post my video. Seriously I was in need of this, cleared my confusion❤ Thank you So much!

I truly wanted to start my RU-vid channel, but I wasn't sure what language to choose... I have two native languages I'm fluent in. There are Russian and Ukrainian. But I want so bad to practice my English as in Ukraine I have no opportunity to do it... After watching your video I understood what language I want to speak on my future RU-vid channel.

Thank you. I've had this dilemma for quite a while. As my channel grows, it's kinda hard to switch the language, but this subject keeps popping in my mind. I probably switch to English one day. I'm just not sure when. By the way, I love you Malaysian accent.

Thanks for the confidence. Now I guess I know that I’ll shoot my Videos in English

Thank you! I have been thinking hard what language to use on my channel. I speak visaya and not fluent on either Tagalog or English. However, I thought English is better. This video helped me to finally continue using English. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so much for uploading this. Very helpful!

This helps a lot, I was born in Mexico, but grew up in the Usa then I moved back to Mexico, and I want to make a youtube channel, soooo I can't decided if I should use English or Spanish...

Thank you so much for the inspiration, Wendy! I truly needed it, I'm panning on starting my RU-vid channel and I was hesitant between English and Ukrainian. I think that English will be a better option - I can always put more time to add Ukrainian CC and go with it. P.S. I have subscribed, love your energy!

Super Rojak. Subscribed.

I am from Québec and this choics is SO HARD to make. My first language is French but i live half the time in Vancouver where i speak English and 93% of my viewers are English speaking. French is only 3.7% of my viewers! I wish that number was more balanced. Subtitling is so much work. What's even harder is that i often mix French and English in the same video, sometimes even in the same sentence. That's just how we live here. We are a French-speaking people surrounded by an English world. I'm 100% fluent in both. I find that there isn't ANY video on YouTub eabout my kind of situation. Everyone has a language they are better at, so the choice is easy. I love making French videos, it feels more natural and i have less jump cut editing to do with less pauses, mistakes, hesitations, "um" "uh" "like" etc. to cut out, but subtitling them takes 60-90 minutes per 10 minutes of video (and mine are often long). I thought about generating the subtitles by RU-vid and letting it be automatically translated but the AI makes so many mistakes. I have over 750 videos on my channel so if i wanted to translat ethem all i would spend the rest of my life doing that. It's really a dilemma and here it is also even political. I can be seen as a traitor by fellow French-Canadians because of the history here. I value my language and speak and write it well and protect it, but if i made no videos in English, there are a ton of people who would not have access to them. So i think i will just keep alternating them (but stick to one language per video), and pick the language that fits better each video. It will require a little more planning which is difficult because i mostly do vlogs LOL. I do watch channels in languages i do not understand at ll, with subtitles on *Korean, Russian, Chinese* and you're right, i watch them because i like their stories and style and i got attached to the people making the videos. Thanks for making me feel better about it. I'm always in such a conundrum about this!!!! 🇨🇦

I decided to use both, just like this: PT BR 🇧🇷: Texto em português EN 🇬🇧: Text in English And use captions in English while speaking portuguese.

Might be a year late, but thank you for making this video. We struggle from mockery from time to time because of this but we try our best to stay true to our niche

Thank you for making this video its been a true struggle for me to decide whether I should open 2 separate channels

This is truly helpful. Thank you Wendy. I've been contemplating whether I should speak in my native language which is filipino or continue speaking in english on my vlogs. You have enlightened me after watching your content. Cheers and more power to your channel.

I feel like doing it in a native language it gives you more availability to entertain the viewers and it would help you by having an easier way to express yourself

Thanks! This helped me while I´m struggling to switch my channel from German to English. Hope im doing fine with the German accent?! 😊

Thank you so much! You're one of the reasons why I just started my channel in English and not Czech, my native language. If nothing else, I'll at least keep in touch with my English, lol.

This video is evergreen content for many of us creators! Thank you for making this awesome take on languages

Thanks Wendy, this is exactly what I'm struggling especially as a first-generation immigrant and learned English later in my life!

Thank you for sharing! This helped me gain clarity about this issue.

Hey, I see your point on choosing the language but what do you think about the competition? I mean, I would be talking about Business but there are already millions of videos about this topic treated by huge names and a potential viewer would prefer watching them rather than me. I am struggling deciding whether I should speak in English or Italian.

Thank you.. I am from Indonesia.. your content help me alot

this what i face it now for starting my channel, tks so much for the advice.

Thank you for the wonderful video I’m looking for, I subscribed your channel right way.

You are so sweet, I don't know why but I had a smile at the end of the video.

This actually really motivated me as I started my channel in Dutch

I've had this dilemma for a while as well! Thank you for your two cents!

This was my problem.....solved now❤️❤️

Can we use different languages in a same channel?.is there any problem?

I recently started my RU-vid channel and have 30 videos. They all are in English. Last week, I did an experiment and made a few videos in Hindi which is my primary language. These Hindi videos came out much much better than my English videos. I want to post these videos on my channel but I am not sure if I mix Hindi and English videos together. I also don't want to manage two channels. It will be too much. I am looking for suggestions.

Hopefully one day, millions of video will be in youtube, tittled in english, but each one of them are using african, tagalog, lao, thai, chinese hindi, sundanese, russia...and so many more. To know you just have to click it through one by one. The rule is simple, what you are using as the language, use it the tittle.

Hi, I identify myself very much with your childhood. My father was Cantonese and my mother was Salvadorean, so I was born in El Salvador and Spanish is my native language, never learned Cantonese and I regret that very much. Besides, I did my masters in the US and I believe I learned enough English to make a channel in English. Anyway, I have a RU-vid Channel in Spanish and after watching your video I am very much into the idea of making a channel in English with the same material as the Spanish channel. Thanks and regards.

I'm thinking about doing a English channel but its going to be weird for my friends cause they don't know it (no offense) Thanks for the advice though!

i really needed this tip hehehe thank you wendy!

I just found you, Wendy! I just started my channel a few months ago and I’m second guessing myself since I also struggle a bit with full fluent English (my native language is Tagalog). I like writing but being bilingual sometimes trips me up! Thanks for this :)

Good question, I still know English and native languages. No comment

You do sound very good) I am an author and illustrator who lives in USA and I do my RU-vid channel in English and always feel worried about my pronunciation(

Ohh, I use both languages in my daily life and engage in both sides of communities, and it's hard for me to choose just one. The audience for my native language and for English is clearly VERY different. I understand that English might bring me more views since it's for wider audience, and I know English very well, so I'm pretty confident in my knowledge... But I wanna create the content that other people similar to me in my community could relate to, and I might also bring more views since I'm gonna be unique. Despite this, I fear that just because of who I am, I'm not gonna find a place for myself for the same reason - too unique. I was thinking about maybe having a bilingual channel - like, for example, sometimes I'm gonna do videos on English, sometimes on my native and both will have subtitles for the opposite language, so everyone subscribed still will be able to understand me & I will feel myself more free. Does it sound good? Or it's gonna put people off ??

Thank u sooo much no i really belivin myself because i accually talk swedish and i wanted to speak english but i was nerves because i thought people wouldn't like my acent. But now i belivin myself Thank You.

For me it's okay to use native language given if you want to niche down to particular ethnic group of people. Example you can use mandarin if you target chinese audience, hangul if you target korean, tagalog if you target filipino, and so fort, So it depends of what type of audience you want to.

Hi please make videos daily. Please don't give up in your youtube journey. You are better motivator

I loved your video, I am going through this right now. I have a photography channel, I like reaching a wider community in English and I can write and think better in English I think, but Spanish is my first Language, and I feel like people would connect with me more if I make all my videos in Spanish, so now I am doing mostly English content and some video in Spanish. Love Your personality, new subscriber here!!!

I actually mix both language in my Livestream & video . I usually speak in my native language when ever I had hard time expressing myself in English🤣

Awesome advice, Wendy. I'm a well known speaker and author in The Netherlands and next year I'll focus more on RU-vid. I'm really in doubt if I should switch to English because my main audience speaks Dutch, but my dream is to become an international speaker about business. I have some traction on my Dutch channel (80+ organic subs p/month) and I'm afraid that I'll loose that if I switch to english on my channel. Would you advice me to create a new English channel, to combine the channel or to keep creating content in Dutch?

Thank you for inspiring me with that, That's my problem now... this will helps me a lot

Ya actually English is the 2nd most spoken language in the world💛 also your Malaysian accent is so cute😍❤️

I‘m planning on starting a channel in the near future (I had ones before but I was like 10-15 and that was really embarrassing lmao) and I was really struggling wether to make it in English or German. I mean on one hand I want to target the biggest audience possible for myself, which means making the channel in English would allow me to reach more people all over the world. On the other hand, I also want to achieve something locally or more like in my local language and it’s easier because there’s not AS MUCH competition as within the English speaking channels. Ultimately I think I will create two channels, one english, one german and see which one I like best or maybe even keep both I mean it doesn’t hurt to have two channels right? It would definitely be more stressful, especially if you actually build a huge audience but until that day comes (if it ever does) I‘m just gonna do both.

I honestly thought you would have atleast 200K subs HAHAH great work!

Yes .. I have an English speaking channel 😃 Thankyou...I feel boosted now

Love your Malaysian accent 🙃

thanks i really dont feel so confident because i have a mexican accent even tho I am Puerto Rican but you motivated me to change my youtube channel to english thanks a lot

Great advice Wendy! Thanks for sharing 👍

Thank you this really helped me in making the decision as I was confused what I should do? I like to think I'm decent in english so I'll probably go with english.

Excellent video! Bagus sekali lah! Thanks, Wendy!

Cool, nice tips mate...

My goal in life was and is to be a successful gaming youtuber and streamer, now the thing is I'm not quite sure if I should do it in Spanish or English; since I know both languages pretty well and I grew up speaking both I'm thinking about making 1 video Spanish and the other 1 English. Whatsoever thank you so much for the information!

I needed this so much.. thanks for sharing this

hei love your thought!!!thank you!!

oh thank you so much,,, this helped me

THANKS FOR THIS VEDIO. I AM SO CONFUSED ABOUT THIS. THANKS.

Wow Wendy! From now on I’m gonna make most of my tutu in English l. At first I wanted to first reach my fellow Filipinos but since we are mostly can understand engish then from now on English it is!

You are sooooo motivating. Thank you ❤

Thank you so much, this was really helpful

So i should make videos with my Indian English Accent Thanks😍

This has been my struggle because I started my RU-vid videos speaking English coz I’m more comfortable speaking English but since I’m from the Philippines a lot of my Filipino viewers have since requested me to put out content in Tagalog and I’m not sure what to do

Great video - thank you very much!

Thank you for doing this. I am thinking to create both Indonesian and English content.

great work sister

Very helpful, thanks!

Very informative. Thank you

Thanks for sharing this video 😍😍

I am in dilemma , whether to deliver my channel in bahasa melayu or english. I can speak quite good but not very confidents. FYI i already have works wit hmany expatriates.

Omg! Same same struggle!

Thanks for sharing! Ive liked and subscribed for more! 👍

Thank you!! I needed this🙏🙏

Thanks!!!

Very good analysis..I love Malaysia...I am Pakistani...I just Subscribed you because I am expecting to hear about Malaysia from your channel and i love Channel..!!

I was having this dilemma just now. I'm still not sure. If I were to switch over to Dutch (native language), I would come across a lot more confident a lot sooner. I know English fairly well I think, at least theoretical, but I HATE my own accent, lol. I could still easily switch, I've only just started and have no subs anyway :) But it's a very "final" decision....

im from srilanka. u seems having long journy in youtube

It's been 2 years since I've been uploading videos to my YT channel in Russian language. And now - out of a sudden - I realised: hey! why don't I just switch to English? So, does it mean I have to hide my previous videos that are in Russian? In order for YT algorithms understand I won't be speaking for Russian audience any more.

Good work

I’m struggling with this thank you for sharing

Good content, been thinking about the this questions lately

I like Spanish but unfortunately there’s more Audience in English. But English kind hard for me but I will definitely do it..

Im planning to do travel blogs in english and other personal blogs in tamil language. Is that ok to do both the language in a single channel? Will that affect my growth

hello thank you for your video! Is it possible to do Portuguese content when you’re in the Uk like when it comes to brand deals and stuff

i know to write english but i cannot speak it : i dont have the accent ( im from greece)

I’m between Cantonese, English, Mandarin But I’m Fluent in Cantonese and English the most So it’s between Cantonese and English

Useful video... I love it.

I have a channel in Spanish and everyone asks me to make them in English... thank you this helps...

yup that's why I switched from native to English.

Great Video 👍