You simply can’t be effective in programming without knowing English. Having few words translated in your language wouldn’t help much. Moreover it is much easier to learn English than learning how to code.
I know many, many people who would disagree.
If you polled people who learning programming and a second language in adulthood, I'd wager the vast majority of them would say learning the natural language was harder.
Of course "learning to program" is extremely imprecise. Learning enough of a language to use its control flow constructs is a much different bar than learning enough to write an Emacs plugin or whatever you might have in mind here.