Do most residents from non-English speaking countries come to these forums ?

Or do they mainly go to their respective third party forums ? I could understand easily why Germans, for example, may wish to only frequent their third-party forums. Thanks in advance for your time.

I guess it depends if they are somewhat fluent in english. I hang out mostly here because I have no trouble with the english language and, frankly, this is where all the action is. *gg* The German forum is the most active one of the native forums, but still there are sometimes no posts in days.

Edit: Sorta misread your question. Are there any third-party german forums for SL? If so, can someone point me there?

The language barrier and the fact that in my opinion less european residents have payment info on file than american ones are the most important roadblocks I think. One would have trouble to understand most of the posts here if they only have to rely on the english learned at school

@ Novis: the ones I mostly read at are www.slinfo.de and www.slinside.de

Ummm...yes, there are these German forums...no, I don't go there. I prefer an international atmosphere and I speak English every day anyway at work; my web page and blog are in English, as is almost everything else I do on line....
I did have a look at some of those German forums, but didn't like them-too German maybe! Or maybe I am too much of an anglophile.

/thanks Alyx for helping me out in the Deutsche forum here one time

Mephisto - thanks, will check it out. And on a side note... gleiches Bundesland, ey!

No prob, you're welcome!

well in holland we all learn english german france and dutch in scool, maybe the grammer ain't good all the time but for sure we read english.

Of course your native language is preferable, but I am just curious and tenacious enough to haunt the forums of other languages even though I can't understand because I can use an online translator like http://world.altavista.com/
Its not perfect, but often I can understand enough to keep up on the latest.