ArenaNet has announced that they will be updating Guild Wars over the next few weeks to allow players in various language districts to travel to different language districts.

As part of our goal of supporting global player interaction, we are making changes to the Territory and District user interface. As of later today, players in Korean language districts can travel between American, European, and Korean districts. Players in Japanese and Taiwanese language districts will be able to travel to the other language districts following a subsequent game update in the coming weeks. The end result is that players in any language district will be able to travel to any other language district within Guild Wars. We will continue to offer International Districts as an additional location for players to meet one another.

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This is actually a really good idea. Despite not being able to understand other languages, it would be interesting to see how players from other places play. It may seem minescule to others but I just might reinstall factions just to check this out.

Originally posted by Greatness

This is actually a really good idea. Despite not being able to understand other languages, it would be interesting to see how players from other places play. It may seem minescule to others but I just might reinstall factions just to check this out.

actually the way China is consuming and closing technological gaps it may not be a bad thing to learn chinese across the board [it sure as heck isnt an easy thing though!]

i'm actually taking a few days each month to read "A Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese"  (sakade, henshall, seeley, de Groot) - for eventual travel purposes, and  reading Japanese tech & game sites as well as game playing and understanding the in-game text ............... and i want to know what opposing players are saying in-game heh heh

now if only ncsoft had an international server for sign language .... the universal salute ....

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it may not be a bad thing to learn chinese

By all means become fluent in Standard Mandarin Chinese asap if you hope to remain employable in the next few decades.  Seriously. 

Practicing using a language in a mmog is a great idea, more fun than drill and practice and a change from the standard foreign language films and tv.  Maybe language classes could form guilds and play online as part of the class!