Logo programming language was translated into various natural languages (as AC Logo into Polish for example) and this was the only reason kids w/o foreign language skills (and English in particular) could wrap their heads around it and paint some cool stuff with the turtle, learning about recursion and what not at the same time.

I learned programming when I was five or six, way before I knew any foreign language, but my experience is no excuse for gatekeeping. Making programming accessible to a wider audience is unequivocally good.