> Anyway, she collects Monopoly boards. When we lived in Europe, we took the opportunity to pick up English, German, and French boards -- which are interesting, because the property names are all different (in the English version, St. Charles Place is Pall Mall; Atlantic Avenue is Leicester Square; Boardwalk is Mayfair; and so on), and the monetary denominations are adjusted by a constant factor to compensate for the difference in the respective nation's currency. (It's great playing Monopoly with 50,000 franc bills.) The Chance and Community Chest cards in the German and French versions are a great way to give those rusty foreign language skills a workout.

I played French Monopoly a couple times in (surprise, surprise) French class, we had a lot of fun with it... of course, being a bunch of high schoolers, two of us robbed the bank of all its money and gave it to someone who was playing without any of the other players noticing... but it was fun.

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