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		viewer5 on Sept 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Happy Birthday Monkey Island What was that like? I've never tried playing a game in a different language before. How much English did you already know before starting those games?

soneca on Sept 4, 2015 [–]

Very basic vocabulary, I was like 10 years old and studied english at school, like, 2 hours a week. We used to play with a dictionary on our hands.

It is not easy, but still fun. It took around (i'm guessing here) 5 or 6 times more time to play it.

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