Coding is generally in English (Score 1)

I work for a French research company, at our England office, and my French sucks. I've spent some time in the French office, and found that most of the other coders spoke some level of English (especially the research guys with Phds), so communication wasn't really a problem. Communicating in restaurants wasn't so easy though... Most books on software engineering are written in English, so our coding norms (and probably others') are in American English, as well as most of the coder's websites. *BUT* you don't code well in isolation, so you'll need to pick up some French slang pretty damn quick :-)