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<blockquote data-quote="Ylis" data-source="post: 1369678" data-attributes="member: 16749">Yikes!&nbsp; That sounds confusing!Well, I lived in Sardinia, Italy for a year when I was 9 and had to do EVERYTHING in Italian since there weren't any Americans (or English-speakers) around me (this was 17 years ago - ack!&nbsp; I've forgotten Italian since then....but am hoping to re-learn it sometime soon!).&nbsp; Alas, I didn't RPG until about 4 years after this.I also lived in Heidelberg, Germany from 1989-1996, but (unlike Sardinia) everyone spoke English there, and they wanted to RPG in English.&nbsp; So, yet again, I missed my opportunity to RPG in a foreign language (not that I spoke German, lol).&nbsp; About 7 years ago I was learning Russian as an Army Linguist (Military Intelligence....I know, I know...the King of Oxymorons...).&nbsp; I DID try to run a game in Russian, but failed miserably.&nbsp; Not due to the language, but due to the fact that I was attempting to run RIFTS (which I was unfamiliar with...but it kind of fit what the Army was teaching us, language-wise).&nbsp; But, technically, that wasn't *playing* in a different language.&nbsp; I know, at one point, though I did make the comment that translated roughly to &quot;In the window, previously, was a brave choir.&quot;&nbsp; But that was because the pronunciation sounded similar to &quot;F**k, no, raunchy, smelly wh*re&quot;.&nbsp; That was about as interesting as it got, though, I'm afraid....<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="Ylis, post: 1369678, member: 16749"] Yikes! That sounds confusing! Well, I lived in Sardinia, Italy for a year when I was 9 and had to do EVERYTHING in Italian since there weren't any Americans (or English-speakers) around me (this was 17 years ago - ack! I've forgotten Italian since then....but am hoping to re-learn it sometime soon!). Alas, I didn't RPG until about 4 years after this. I also lived in Heidelberg, Germany from 1989-1996, but (unlike Sardinia) everyone spoke English there, and they wanted to RPG in English. So, yet again, I missed my opportunity to RPG in a foreign language (not that I spoke German, lol). About 7 years ago I was learning Russian as an Army Linguist (Military Intelligence....I know, I know...the King of Oxymorons...). I DID try to run a game in Russian, but failed miserably. Not due to the language, but due to the fact that I was attempting to run RIFTS (which I was unfamiliar with...but it kind of fit what the Army was teaching us, language-wise). But, technically, that wasn't *playing* in a different language. I know, at one point, though I did make the comment that translated roughly to "In the window, previously, was a brave choir." But that was because the pronunciation sounded similar to "F**k, no, raunchy, smelly wh*re". That was about as interesting as it got, though, I'm afraid.... :) [/QUOTE]

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