Questions about the Swift Student Challenge

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Hello! I've been wondering about how strict the rules are for multilingual content in submissions, and also what I can use as screenshots.

There are screens in my app, explained and accompanied by English, that have Chinese text/audio on them. Is this appropriate?

Reading the Terms & Conditions says that "All content must be in English", but because multicultural themes are a main point of my app, it seems unavoidable to use other languages. I've attached images that show what I'm talking about:

About the screenshots in my submission, am I allowed to show two screenshots side-by-side of a before & after of what an interaction does in one image? It'd look like two phone screenshots right next to each other.

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backstroke OP

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Sorry, it seems like my image didn't go through in the post. Here it is.

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Answer 2

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

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because multicultural themes are a main point of my app, it seems unavoidable to use other languages.

Agreed.

This is one of those cases where it’s important to understand the rationale for the rule. The requirement that everything be in English exists so that the judges can review your submission, both by running the app and looking at the code. So, if the goal of your submission is to show off multiple languages, then that’s your only real option.

However, it’s important to put yourself in the position of the judges who review your submission. Will they be able to understand how cool it is? Keep in mind that:

Folks who grew up with alphabetic script systems are notoriously bad at recognising logograms.
Folks who speak non-tonal languages struggle to hear tones.

So construct your submission in a way that someone who only reads and speaks English can understand how cool it is.

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