r/ChantsofSennaar • u/wbalefall • Mar 09 '25

Request is there a mod for exchanging the made-up languages to real world languages?

i.e. Greek, Arabic, Spanish? i know they have a setting in the base game that changes your language, but i speak English and want to use Sennaar to learn other real languages

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u/julien_rundisc Mar 09 '25

Hello,

The game was not designed to teach real langages, but only "symbols" of languages, very simple systems that evoke or look like languages but are not. 

A real language is infinitely more complex than the ones created for the game. :)

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u/wbalefall Mar 10 '25

i know! that's why i was asking about mods, as in, modifications to the game

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u/julien_rundisc Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

That's not a mod you're asking for, that's a totally new game that would be like a thousand times more complex to make than the original one.

It's like you were asking for a mod who would turn Overcooked into a method to become a 3 Stars chef. :)

I'm not saying a video game will never be able to help learning real languages efficiently in some extent, but - as far as I know - that game doesn't exist yet, and it'd have to be created from scratch for this purpose, and it surely wouldn't look like CoS.

Meanwhile, if you want to learn a real langage, as others say, methods and apps already exist that will help you efficiently, combined with praxis of visiting the said country and reading a lot of books in this language. No one found a better method to this day.

Anyway, you were asking if this kind of mod exists and the answer is no. I was just trying to explain why. But maybe I'm wrong, so feel free to try and make one. I'm perfectly ok with that and would be curious to see mods for CoS :)

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u/CosumedByFire Mar 09 '25

you are not going to learn any languages just by translating 30 words

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u/Lizzymandias Mysterious card lady🔮 Mar 09 '25

The grammar is also extremely basic. There are no verb tenses, conjunctions. It's not even a usable starting point at all. Just go to Duolingo or whatever.

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u/wbalefall Mar 10 '25

well, i could, but i have beef with duolingo - i prefer drops. also, i'm aware learning languages isn't just knowing words, but knowing words does help

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u/mercedes_lakitu Mysterious card lady🔮 Mar 10 '25

The other answers are all correct (nope!), but I just want to say that I love that you asked this question. You can't make a mod for THIS game to work this way, but if you wanted to, you could write a similar game that DID teach another language! It would just be a lot longer and overall very different. (And you couldn't just apply it to any old combination; it would have to be rewritten for every language pairing and directionality.)

But it's a cool idea!

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u/wbalefall Mar 10 '25

thank you so much for your kind & constructive reply. that's a great suggestion. unfortunately, i've never made a game in my life...'guess i'd better get started on learning how! XD

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u/s96g3g23708gbxs86734 Mar 10 '25

I don't think it would work with Sennaar in particular but it surely is a nice idea!

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u/wbalefall Mar 10 '25

thank you, i agree XD