Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and ...

andrey-p · on Nov 21, 2014

Likewise - I learned a lot of my English from classic adventure games.

For me there was also the additional challenge of growing up in an ex-Eastern Bloc country where you could find dodgy pirated copies of games more easily than the real thing.

So you'd end up in a situation where you're trying to beat a bootleg Legend of Kyrandia translated to Russian by looking up walkthroughs in English and somehow trying to match up both without knowing either language very well.

Those were the days.

narag · on Nov 21, 2014

Heh, now I'm going to learn Dutch thanks to some Minecraft server chat, where most of the players are from the Netherlands.

Kurtz79 · on Nov 21, 2014

Same here: when I was growing up, Italian translation were done occasionally, but they were far from common. Now I'm glad.

I surely lost some enjoyment by missing some of the puns at the time, but it's very satisfying being able to play them now, and understand them 100%.

I loved English classes at school, since I could basically NOT study, and still get good marks.

Origin and Lucasarts games were my real teachers :)

cachehit · on Nov 21, 2014

Haha indeed! It's scary to think of how much of my English came from answering the intro-questions to Leisure Suit Larry. I cursed myself the day I discovered alt+z, but now I am happy :-)

m_st · on Nov 21, 2014

You can change the language in the upper right corner. Here's the link for PT http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=pt

And yes, as you've never played Monkey Island: You indeed have to learn the right answers by fighting multiple battles until you're 'trained' enough.

soneca · on Nov 21, 2014

I did play Monkey Island. I was talking about the experience of playing this part in the original Monkey Island, no the OP.

pinoceros · on Nov 21, 2014

FWIW, I learned a lot of German playing a German-language copy of Civilization.