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Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even

by soneca 12y ago

Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even make sense of the sentences. Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what was answer to what. Oh, how much fun one miss playing adventure games not speaking english.* *(TWPFWP - Third World People, First World Problems).

andrey-p 12y ago
Likewise - I learned a lot of my English from classic adventure games. For me there was also the additional challenge of growing up in an ex-Eastern Bloc country where you could find dodgy pirated copies of games more easily than the real thing. So you'd end up in a situation where you're trying to beat a bootleg Legend of Kyrandia translated to Russian by looking up walkthroughs in English and somehow trying to match up both without knowing either language very well. Those were the days.
- narag 12y ago
  Heh, now I'm going to learn Dutch thanks to some Minecraft server chat, where most of the players are from the Netherlands.
m_st 12y ago
You can change the language in the upper right corner. Here's the link for PT http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=pt http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=pt And yes, as you've never played Monkey Island: You indeed have to learn the right answers by fighting multiple battles until you're 'trained' enough.
- soneca 12y ago
  I did play Monkey Island. I was talking about the experience of playing this part in the original Monkey Island, no the OP.
pinoceros 12y ago
FWIW, I learned a lot of German playing a German-language copy of Civilization.
Kurtz79 12y ago
Same here: when I was growing up, Italian translation were done occasionally, but they were far from common. Now I'm glad. I surely lost some enjoyment by missing some of the puns at the time, but it's very satisfying being able to play them now, and understand them 100%. I loved English classes at school, since I could basically NOT study, and still get good marks. Origin and Lucasarts games were my real teachers :)
kristiandupont 12y ago
Haha indeed! It's scary to think of how much of my English came from answering the intro-questions to Leisure Suit Larry. I cursed myself the day I discovered alt+z, but now I am happy :-)

by soneca 12y ago

andrey-p 12y ago

Likewise - I learned a lot of my English from classic adventure games. For me there was also the additional challenge of growing up in an ex-Eastern Bloc country where you could find dodgy pirated copies of games more easily than the real thing. So you'd end up in a situation where you're trying to beat a bootleg Legend of Kyrandia translated to Russian by looking up walkthroughs in English and somehow trying to match up both without knowing either language very well. Those were the days.

narag 12y ago
Heh, now I'm going to learn Dutch thanks to some Minecraft server chat, where most of the players are from the Netherlands.

m_st 12y ago

You can change the language in the upper right corner. Here's the link for PT http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=pt http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=pt And yes, as you've never played Monkey Island: You indeed have to learn the right answers by fighting multiple battles until you're 'trained' enough.

soneca 12y ago
I did play Monkey Island. I was talking about the experience of playing this part in the original Monkey Island, no the OP.

pinoceros 12y ago

FWIW, I learned a lot of German playing a German-language copy of Civilization.

Kurtz79 12y ago

Same here: when I was growing up, Italian translation were done occasionally, but they were far from common. Now I'm glad. I surely lost some enjoyment by missing some of the puns at the time, but it's very satisfying being able to play them now, and understand them 100%. I loved English classes at school, since I could basically NOT study, and still get good marks. Origin and Lucasarts games were my real teachers :)

kristiandupont 12y ago

Haha indeed! It's scary to think of how much of my English came from answering the intro-questions to Leisure Suit Larry. I cursed myself the day I discovered alt+z, but now I am happy :-)