the screen shot looks cool, it apears to be a well done game. It would be cool if this was in english

I tried this out and it is really cool, it's like a graphic adventure. Though I don't speak any French I did play it a few mins, but if there was a english version that would be great!

hah! I know french, so this game is all the better. i like it a lot! Why it isn't listed as featured, I don't know.

I also hope the english version to come soon since I dont understand a S·$"t of french although I speak spanish :P

What are you talking about? It's more cool because it's not in english. Maybe Americans should wake up and realize that there are other people in the world too, and take some foreign language classes.

*Stereotypical American Voice*

Bah! Everyone knows that English is the greatest and coolest language everywhere. C'mon, why are we learning "foreign languages" when they could be learning Engish?

English as cool?!?!? English is a shit-language. I hate English, and it's my native tongue. There are eight ways to pronounce the ending "ough". That's simply asinine.

And the sad part is, most Americans assume that the rest of the world will learn English to satisfy their (the Americans') laziness and stupidity.

My native tounge is German and I like English much more because it's so much easier...

However, if you like the language or not, you can't protest against this international standard. English IS a world language (at least in countries where people have the chance to visit a school) - and mainly because it's rather easy (and because the U.S. are a militaristic and economical superpower, of course...)

I think we need a language-oversight organization like the French and Spanish have.

Also, I stand my my assertion, that, in general, as a whole, Americans are stupid, self-centered and nationalistic (in a bad way).

I think it's sort of unfair to say that about *all* Americans, but it would be more accurate to say that there are many that are that way (especially the ones in the government...).

I was avoiding saying that last, but I agree.

i wouldnt say ALL americans, i know thus dude who speaks; English, German, French, Russian, and Japanese, he is a very commited, full blood american, but as for me, i only know english and i will probably never learn any other language

Hear Hear! I'm a native American, and I really think we have a ego that is tremendous! Almost all of us don't care about economy or education.

More trees! Less Bush!

*makes a joke that would probably be censored about bush and his vice president's first name*

Well the US was an economic superpower. That title goes to the EU and UK today. And if you were to learn regular english, then it would be hard. American english is easy though. If you could please reply, I have a question. Is German like Spanish and French, in that you conjugate verbs from roots and common endings except for irregulars? I suppose that's why English is a little hard to learn, even for native speakers, because almost no verbs share common endings like -er verbs in French and Spanish, and there are way too many irregulars in English.

yea, im a native speaker to english, i always heard that german is a very phonetic language and therefore easy to learn, other than that, i dont know, european people know too many languages

Man, I wish I had an 89 now =P

Anyhow, as far as I know, yes, German is like French and Spanish in conjugation-land.... French has its "e, es, e, ons, ez, ent" Spanish has "o, es, e, emos, en" and German has "e, st, t, t, en, en".... Not too sure about the German one though, you start to get rusty once you hit your 5th foreign language =P

But Germany has a lot of exceptions and irregulations that are very confusing sometimes.

In English, I especially like the feature that things are "things", so non-female and non-male like in other european languages.

english has it's share of exceptions and irregularitys.
now for some theory I just made up:
for most people you'r native languadge sucks more because you have already been made aware of all of the things that suck about it. when you learn a new languadge you see all of the parts that are better then your own and don't immideataly figure out.

Good theory. Makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, that's probably true.

True, that does make English a bit easier. I took a few years of Spanish, and I'm still sure I messed up a few genders on some nouns (but perhaps that's because I'm a crazy English speaker and my brain just doesn't work that way.)

See, the one place where English screws up is our totally braindead pronounciation. It's just really, really stupid.

Yea.. somehow, "He will resume writing his resume" is kinda confusing to me..

Well, the second "resume" should really be résumé, or some other combination of acute accents.

The verb conjugations and the pronunciations are why I think French is easier than English. You will never have that "resume" mix-up in French, as the accents readily change that. However, in English we use almost no accents, except when dealing with, of course, French words (or with Pokemon =) . Today's English is a combination of Germanic languages, a lot of French, and Latin. Which is why it is harder to learn than French. The only advantage English has over French is no genders, but French wins hands down when dealing with verbs and words like "resume."

But isn't resume (as in the document) actually french?

That, and different forms of stuff (like be, are, is, etc.), where half of it seems to be just random stuff that you have to memorize, instead of following a clear pattern. Hebrew's great in that way, with nice and consistent forms that you can use on almost any word, although that's another language where EVERYTHING is male or female, which I could never get used to either.

English is also generally the language of choice for programmers. The GNU Project requires it, and Linus originally commented the linux kernel in english. When later asked why, he said it never occured to him to do otherwise. This is probably because english offers a more extensive technical vocabulary than other languages, in part because the feild was created by American companies.

My URL links to the GNU Coding Standards, where it asks that code be contributed in english

Hmm. That's strange. I had heard that English was one of the most difficult languages to master.

Yeah, English can be really illogical. Supposedly Russian makes a lot more sense. Just because the country I live in sends its armies into other countries and seems to have economically and culturally taken over most of the rest of the world (I mean that as a bad thing!) doesn't mean that everyone should have to learn English.

I know a guy who speaks fluent russian and he says the same.

yup, i live in america, that is soooo true, even for me

He is right, im american and i tried to learn spanish, but i failed, then i took french classes and did unbeleivably bad. Americans are just too lazy to learn a second language, although it is a highschool graduation requirement

Hey now, not all Americans. I'm taking my second year of spanish and find the language quite easy to learn.

Most definitely not all Americans! I'm American but I speak 3 languages fluently and am in the process of learning 3 more =]

yea, its just me, lol

no, I think it is the norm. it doesn't help that everyone else seems to know english.

I would say that most Americans take at least a few years of foreign language classes.

At our school, to graduate with an honors diploma, you are required to take at least 2 foreign language classes..

At our school, they wouldn't let me take spanish because I already knew it. They forced me to take French, which wasn't such a bad deal after all. All the cognates from English and Spanish made it easy to learn.

What are you talking about? It's less cool because it's in French. Maybe French people should wake up and realize that there are other people in the world too, and take some foreign language classes.

Now, do you think this sentence is a very stupid thing to say?

If so, why is it okay when you substitute "French" with "English"?

I don't think anyone's saying programs SHOULDN'T be in English, just that people should be able to do things in whatever language they want.

I actually was thinking more of the fact that I would like the game more if it was in English. and yes, I am an American who is too lazy to learn a foreign language. I really don't think that languages are my thing though (unless they are programing launguadges).

Let me present an interesting analogy. When learning a new language, don't learn in Ti-Basic, learn in Assembly. Anyone who learns their native language is always learning new things the Assembly way, because they don't translate it into their native language (because it already is), they recognize what the word is. While most people translate the foreign word into the native language word, and then recognizes it. Ti-Basic requires more steps, while Assembly is one step above the native language of your mind. I guess what I'm getting at is, when you see the word "voiture", don't think "Ok that means car which is *mental picture*." Instead think "Ok that is *mental picture*."

1. I take French.
2. This site is in English. Don't get all offended because not everyone here knows French. I think you'd be justified if it was posted on TI-FR and people were complaining about the lack of an English version.
3. Lighten up! You don't want to start a flame war here.

Just run it through Google translator or something.

Yeah this game does look cool. If I remember correctly there was a game like this online that I played a long time ago... The screenshot looks just like the room you start off in that game too.

I don't speak more than fifteen words of French. However, I do speak Spanish quite well. However, in most of the screenshots, I was able to use context reasoning to figure out most of the words, although I only have an 84, so this won't work on mine.

I speak icelandic, but I gues that it wil not help now...

Anyone here watches the Science Channel? You should see the show about this one savant that remembers almost everything. Solutions to equations just come to him, he doesn't have to figure them out. And he also learned Icelandic in just a week. If he can do it, anyone can do it. =)

I think you are making your inferences the wrong way. it is more like if he can't no one can.

What's so bad about learning a foreign language?

1) It gives you more appreciation of a country's culture, and

2) Languages are easy, so they help you enter uni more easily

that's like saying Calcules is easey every one should take it. some people are good at things that others suck at. saying languadges are easey doesn't go for everyone.

I think he was being sarcastic, hence the "=)".

That was pretty cool.

You speak Icelandic? I wish I knew Icelandic, because I did a year-long project on Iceland for social studies and have become quite interested in the country.