"- You're a game designer? That sounds fun. I'd like to do that too. What should I learn first? - English." Every time I go back home I have this conversation in Portuguese.https://twitter.com/Gaohmee/status/1174337492260012032 …
It's a tricky subject. While it's great to have this ubiquitous language, it's a monumental obstacle if you don't have the opportunity to learn it.
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Even in Portugal, as soon as we got our first international colleagues we swapped to English pretty much exclusively. After all, our game was being coded in English, on English tools and targetting the American market.
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This gets even tricker if you end up working in a country with a different main language. Not English. Not yours. It's very easy to become isolated, heading home straight from work because every conversation takes extra effort.
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After 9 years in the games industry I feel like I'm losing my grip on my native language. It shouldn't have to be like this.
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