English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent Dutch will get you pretty much the entire western hemisphere.  They all use the same alphabet, all read left-to-right, and are all SVO word order--except for Dutch, which is SOV&#x2F;V2.<p>Also, a US company will need a Spanish translation before it even considers French.<p>Anyway, the point is that it is a lot easier to half-ass internationalization and localization for both of the Americas and the Caribbean than it is in Europe and Asia.  That is just indisputably true.  European coders <i>must</i> get that correct starting from version 1.0, whereas Americans can blithely ignore it for <i>years</i>.