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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1366801" data-attributes="member: 1465">I am an Italian who lives in Finland and I play D&amp;D in English.That said, I was recently pondering about what D&amp;D has given me in terms of the language, and I have to say that it gave me a big improvement! In a few years of reading many 3ed books all written in English plus gaming in that language (although the English we talk is not really accurate, more like an &quot;international English for strangers&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) at least I noticed I have gathered a load of new words and expressions. Ok, maybe knowing all the animals and critters and dozens synonims of &quot;hit&quot; and &quot;kill&quot; could not be that useful IRL... but I really thank D&amp;D to have found me an excuse to let my mother understand that there IS a good point in playing a game even when you are getting close to your 30s <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> On the other hand, D&amp;D hasn't been able to prevent me still make a lot of mistakes, among which some memorable ones including trying to tell the friends that I spent the night before in my garage killing scarecrows with a broom (instead of cockroaches), or that I love listening to music with handcuffs (instead of headphones)&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> ...just wondering if other gamers have tried to play in a language different than their own, and how they feel about it...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1366801, member: 1465"] I am an Italian who lives in Finland and I play D&D in English. That said, I was recently pondering about what D&D has given me in terms of the language, and I have to say that it gave me a big improvement! In a few years of reading many 3ed books all written in English plus gaming in that language (although the English we talk is not really accurate, more like an "international English for strangers" ;) ) at least I noticed I have gathered a load of new words and expressions. Ok, maybe knowing all the animals and critters and dozens synonims of "hit" and "kill" could not be that useful IRL... but I really thank D&D to have found me an excuse to let my mother understand that there IS a good point in playing a game even when you are getting close to your 30s :D On the other hand, D&D hasn't been able to prevent me still make a lot of mistakes, among which some memorable ones including trying to tell the friends that I spent the night before in my garage killing scarecrows with a broom (instead of cockroaches), or that I love listening to music with handcuffs (instead of headphones) :eek: ...just wondering if other gamers have tried to play in a language different than their own, and how they feel about it... :) [/QUOTE]

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