Well, the main hurdle was that we were 7-9 years old iirc and didn't know any English at all, beyond the memorized "knock knock" etc. So the topic of the questions wasn't on the table :-)

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lazyasciiart 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I love this story. I remember seeing two pre-literate kindergarten kids playing on a gameboy or similar handheld, one of them teaching the other strings of button presses for things like “save game” - just navigating through all the menus by memory.

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gambiting 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I played through the entire Pokemon Yellow without understanding a lick of english. You just remembered what the commands did, and you learnt by experimenting.

	▲	bcjdjsndon 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even as an English speaker the Pokémon all sounded gibberish to me so it wouldn't have been much help