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12 families battle for title Banzai Master. They will need strategy and also very quick reflexes in order to be successful...
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
Nietzsche
2026/03/29
In this session on March 29, 2026, with my students, we did another French lesson using the game Tortuga 2199.
But I think it's a game far too complex for us to focus on pronunciation and vocabulary, especially since Hoa and Lichi had never played it before. I ended up making a long list of French sentences for all the possible actions with numerous variations. Under these circumstances, it's difficult to find the right sentence, and we ended up just playing.
For the next session, we'll play Power Grid; there are far fewer actions, so we can focus on repetition.
By the way, Nguyen won again. He's also the only one who attacks the other players. A real pirate!
But I think it's a game far too complex for us to focus on pronunciation and vocabulary, especially since Hoa and Lichi had never played it before. I ended up making a long list of French sentences for all the possible actions with numerous variations. Under these circumstances, it's difficult to find the right sentence, and we ended up just playing.
For the next session, we'll play Power Grid; there are far fewer actions, so we can focus on repetition.
By the way, Nguyen won again. He's also the only one who attacks the other players. A real pirate!
