E01¶


Research	R0027 — Multilingual prompt engineering challenges
Run	2026-03-26
Query	Q003
Source	SRC04
Evidence	SRC04-E01
Type	Factual

Google prompt engineering guide is primarily English with limited Spanish/Portuguese support

URL: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/prompting-strategies

Extract¶

FACT: Google's prompt engineering documentation for Gemini is primarily in English. Google Workspace with Gemini features are available when the account language is English, with "some features available in Spanish and Portuguese." The prompt engineering guide itself does not include a dedicated multilingual prompting section. Google notes that Gemini models are "trained on both multimodal and multilingual data" and "shows great performance on multilingual math and summarization benchmarks," but provides no specific guidance for prompting in non-English languages.

Relevance to Hypotheses¶

Hypothesis	Relationship	Strength
H1	Contradicts	Very limited multilingual availability
H2	Supports	Third major vendor confirmed with minimal non-English support
H3	Supports	Spanish/Portuguese availability shows some effort, but coverage is minimal

Context¶

Google, a company with extensive internationalization infrastructure, provides only English-dialect and limited Spanish/Portuguese support for its Gemini prompt engineering documentation. This is notable given Google Translate's 100+ language support.