This is getting old fast

[stupiddog]

I used to do that, until I got an all french party. I couldn't understand them and it went kinda bad, and I felt like it was my fault for picking a language I didn't understand.

I am native German speaker, but when I (with absolutely no previous MMORPG experience) queued for a dungeon in FF14 for the first time, I was seriously asking myself whether it was actual German I was reading :-P

Bottom line: You actually do not have to be THAT good in standard German/French/Japanese to get along, but you have to know the slang. Everything else written is basically beginner and lower intermediate level.