just wondering...

[ratcreature]

If you play Wordle in another language besides English (that you speak well), do you find it harder? I have a harder time guessing in German than in English, where most often it just takes me four attempts to get it right. Is English more suited to the five letter limit maybe?

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[schneefink]

I just tried it for the first time in German and found it a lot harder for some reason, idk. (Maybe I just got used to the English one.)

[ratcreature]

I've played fewer of the German as well, so it might be a training effect. I just have a harder time coming up with five letter words n German somehow, and though I read more English genre fiction, I don't think my written German has rotted that much... It doesn't help that the German one I'm playing doesn't seem to offer umlauts, and then I promptly keep thinking of words with those.

[mllesatine]

There is a German version? Where?

[ratcreature]

The one I play is at https://www.wordle.at

[mllesatine]

:D

[mllesatine]

Hab's. wordle.at

[mildred_of_midgard]

I know this is an old post, but I was looking at your journal after our recent chat and couldn't resist replying to this one. I asked my wife, who did Wordle in 5 languages during her initial rush of enthusiasm, what she thought this morning, and she said:

- English is indeed easier than her native language, Portuguese.
- She stopped doing Portuguese because she got tired of being defeated in her native language.
- German she finds doable, but only because she uses a dictionary.
- French is okay despite her lack of fluency, because the French version of the game goes by different rules, like always giving you the first letter.
- Italian is the hardest (despite the fact that her Italian is better than her German or French), because there are just too many possibilities, and it comes down to luck whether you get the right one in time.

I myself do not play. ;)

[ratcreature]

I've since found that I eventually got better at the German one with a little practice, so that the difference mostly vanished. It remains a bit odd that it doesn't do umlauts though.

[mildred_of_midgard]

Umlauts: It sounds like the creator chose to use the ASCII character set. While that does often make things easier when programming, by 2022 I would expect UTF-8 to be not *that* hard to support? I have not seen the source code, though.

[ratcreature]

It would probably increase the difficulty, because honing in on the vowels first seems a good strategy, and having three more would make things harder, even more than just adding more letters in general. I haven't tried a Russian one because my vocabulary just isn't good enough (yet -- still nursing some hope of eventual progress out of the A2/B1 intermediate level slog...) but I imagine that is harder to guess, just because the alphabet has more letters.

[mildred_of_midgard]

When I discovered my wife was doing 5 languages, I teased her about trying Russian, and she was like, "Noooo, my Russian isn't good enough!"

[ratcreature]

I just tried Russian on wordle.global and guessed it in four, but didn't even know the word. And Google translate and my regular online dictionary didn't either. Looking in wiktionary resulted in finding out that it's some dialect variant of another word, that in itself was a less common synonym to another word I also didn't know and was unlikely to encounter any time soon.