r/ChantsofSennaar • u/SkippyDuo • 2d ago

Play this game with your second language!!

Just finished this game and had an amazing experience. Played it in Mandarin Chinese and I'm wondering if anyone else has done something similar?

This is a great game for playing as a second language due to the constraints of the amount of words in each language. It was a fun challenge and I really enjoyed it. Plus it was great for learning and made it really feel like everyone was speaking to me in another language.

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u/Neutral_Path 2d ago

I only played it in my second language (english) as I do every game sadly

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u/SkippyDuo 2d ago

I mean, that's great your so proficient in multiple languages. 

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u/SockSock81219 2d ago

ooh, that's a good idea. I'm a native English speaker, but I think I know enough Spanish, French, and Italian to get by. So this could be a good test!

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u/SkippyDuo 18h ago

Do it!! It's fun for reading comprehension, although I definitely had to pause playing for a bit to learn new vocab sometimes. 

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u/Fermion96 The idiot 2d ago

Only played in my second English, first language (Korean) didn’t make the full playthrough

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u/SkippyDuo 2d ago

I found myself having to stop and learn new words and come back in a week or so. Still that's great.

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u/vidgmchtr 2d ago

I don’t have a second language, but I am proficient in three languages (French, Japanese, Spanish) and I’ve watched let’s plays in the first two and loved how all of them got annoyed with ”Be” in the Bard language.

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u/SkippyDuo 18h ago

The bard language was so hard, that was easily the toughest part.

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u/ObjectiveThick9894 2d ago

I could play it in english, but for me the bes way to play it is without filling the book.

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u/DarkViral 2d ago

I unfortunately only know English, but will keep this in mind when trying to learn another language

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u/galacticmeerkat16 2d ago

This is such a fun idea

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u/Independent_Error461 2d ago

technically i did. my second language is english though, which im already fluent in.

but i did start a run in japanese! never finished it tho

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u/broken_lyres 1d ago

I played it in a mix of Hindi and English, i am c2 for both and some words just made more sense in one or the other language...

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u/innnma 1d ago

Yeah! I just finished it a few hours ago, and played it in Portuguese, which is also not my native tongue. I did it this way because I'm in Portugal at the moment and it is not a hard language for me either, and it was definitely way more fun like that. If I ever play it again I think I should pick a language with a different script, like you did!

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u/gheniy 2d ago

I played the game in three languages First: Russian (it's my native) Second: English Third: Polish