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<blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 6570" data-attributes="member: 1325">As a native Engish speaker living in a foreign country, I have found it rather...exasperating trying to translate those boxed description texts into Swedish on the fly. I'm fluent in Swedish, so much so that Swedes cannot tell that I'm a foreigner, but still translating on the fly is a very difficult skill to master.So for a while I tried to translate the boxes before the game.I DM for a group of Swedes, all of whom are very good English speakers. In my daily life I&nbsp; have almost abandoned speaking Swedish, since the arrival of my children some years ago. I discovered that I had lost a lot of the command of the English language I once had, as I had not been using it. So although I knew all the words, I had difficulty finding them in time to say anything.So these days I inflict my environment with English almost constantly. Gaming wise it tends to slip from one to another.It depends on how tired I am. If I'm tired, they get the text in English, otherwise I translate. They almost always answer in Swedish. It really depends on my mood. Some concepts are never translated in gaming in Sweden; AC, armour class, attack bonus (which can be pronounced with a swedish accent), Fortitude/Reflex/Will, the names of spells, or Magical effects (Vorpal, Ghost Touch, and so on).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="green slime, post: 6570, member: 1325"] As a native Engish speaker living in a foreign country, I have found it rather...exasperating trying to translate those boxed description texts into Swedish on the fly. I'm fluent in Swedish, so much so that Swedes cannot tell that I'm a foreigner, but still translating on the fly is a very difficult skill to master. So for a while I tried to translate the boxes before the game. I DM for a group of Swedes, all of whom are very good English speakers. In my daily life I have almost abandoned speaking Swedish, since the arrival of my children some years ago. I discovered that I had lost a lot of the command of the English language I once had, as I had not been using it. So although I knew all the words, I had difficulty finding them in time to say anything. So these days I inflict my environment with English almost constantly. Gaming wise it tends to slip from one to another. It depends on how tired I am. If I'm tired, they get the text in English, otherwise I translate. They almost always answer in Swedish. It really depends on my mood. Some concepts are never translated in gaming in Sweden; AC, armour class, attack bonus (which can be pronounced with a swedish accent), Fortitude/Reflex/Will, the names of spells, or Magical effects (Vorpal, Ghost Touch, and so on). [/QUOTE]

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