Hussar
Legend
Hi there, thanks for stopping by. I've got myself a bit of a problem and I'm hoping you can help.
See, I teach English here in Japan. Lately, well over the past year, I've introduced one of my higher level adult classes to Catan. Worked great. They loved it. We now have a monthly board gaming "class". Great. We've beaten Catan to death and we've moved most of the way through Seafarers of Catan as well and I'm thinking it's time to move on to something else.
The question is of course, what. What should come next? I can't go too complicated as these are ESL students and their vocabulary is somewhat limited. They're pretty high level students, but far from native speaking level. I need rules and whatnot that isn't too strongly language dependent.
And there's another little wrinkle. I want to order from Amazon Japan. Which lets out Carcasonne as it's only available in German. Sigh. Been looking at Ticket to Ride, but, I wonder if that's perhaps a bit too easy. They don't need a "gateway game" as Board Game Geek calls it. They already like games.
Help.
See, I teach English here in Japan. Lately, well over the past year, I've introduced one of my higher level adult classes to Catan. Worked great. They loved it. We now have a monthly board gaming "class". Great. We've beaten Catan to death and we've moved most of the way through Seafarers of Catan as well and I'm thinking it's time to move on to something else.
The question is of course, what. What should come next? I can't go too complicated as these are ESL students and their vocabulary is somewhat limited. They're pretty high level students, but far from native speaking level. I need rules and whatnot that isn't too strongly language dependent.
And there's another little wrinkle. I want to order from Amazon Japan. Which lets out Carcasonne as it's only available in German. Sigh. Been looking at Ticket to Ride, but, I wonder if that's perhaps a bit too easy. They don't need a "gateway game" as Board Game Geek calls it. They already like games.
Help.