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Benoist Rousseau at the microphone during a conference; his courses are now followed in several countries.

Why I’m opening my courses internationally

My courses, my website and my content are now in six languages. A good method should not stay stuck in a single country.

Value should not stop at a border

Markets do not stop at a border. I do not see why my courses should. I created the Andlil.com forum in 2011: more than two million messages, fifty thousand members, with readers well beyond France for a long time. The need was there. It just took me a while to act on it for my own courses.

The forum was never designed as an export product: it became international on its own, which is the most reliable signal there is. My book, published in three languages, said the same thing. Two converging indications, over the years — and a conclusion I am only drawing now. Inertia is not reserved for others.

Learning, reading, listening — in your own language

My book is already translated into English and Spanish. This is not a marketing strategy, it is the logical continuation of what I have been doing since 1994: I started on the markets, I ended up writing and teaching, and people ask me questions in languages that I do not always master myself — on that point, Google Translate deserves more credit than I do. The method does not change from one language to another. Only the packaging changes.

Six languages, and what that entails

French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Translating a course website does not mean translating the homepage and leaving the rest:

  1. The course pages in full — program, schedule, terms, pricing.
  2. The legal documents: terms of sale, terms of use, legal notices, privacy policy. They are the ones that are binding, and they are the longest.
  3. The video testimonials, dubbed from the original French recording, with voice and lip synchronization generated by artificial intelligence. It is written under each video: I prefer to say it rather than let people guess.
  4. The written reviews, which remain authentic excerpts published on Trustpilot, chosen without altering the meaning.
  5. The form, the error messages, the button labels — the invisible part, the one you only notice when it is missing.

What does not translate

The method does not change: an order book is read the same way everywhere, and discipline has no local version. The rest does. Taxation, accessible brokers, the specific rules of each prop firm, session times according to the time zone: all these are parameters that depend on the country, on which I will not speak for anyone else, and which must be verified locally before committing.

Opening six languages changes nothing about what I teach. It changes the number of people who can hear it without going through a machine translator.

Benoist Rousseau

Independent Trader — CME & CBOT Member

About the author

Benoist Rousseau is a trader, member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), an economic history specialist educated at the Sorbonne, and an experienced educator. Founder of a recognized trading school, he trains traders every year in discipline, risk management, and market psychology.