The 2025 U.S. Go Congress is now open for registration! This annual event is happening in Austin, TX, this July, and we decided to go multilingual with our promotional videos, publishing in six languages! We are particularly excited to connect with the fast-growing Latin American Go community! Take a look:
These 2 languages are spoken in distinctive areas with differences in writing and speaking which make people who don’t know one not understanding the other.
A bit like asking if dutsh and German are different languages.
They are different scripts for the purpose of creating the materials. Perhaps I should have said six versions instead of six languages. I myself only speak Spanish and Japanese, but I understand that the Chinese speakers felt that both versions were appropriate. We are aiming at being as inclusive as possible recognizing that we have people from all over the world who attend the event each year.
I for one love this. I also do think the latin american base in the US is a huge segment to focus on.
The popular games are cultural ones like baraja (spanish suit cards, think minor arcana), domino (double six), loteria (bingo). There’s not a lot of spanish speaking modern games afaik. Emphasis is on group play, of around four players for the first two types and more for loteria.
So the questions are: Are there pamphlets? Any video introductions? Other resources?
For the congress, just the two poster designs and the video.
Enrique Garcia is the president of the San Diego Go Club, one of the largest and most active in the nation, as well as among the closest to Mexico both physically and culturally. I understand that he is one of the people leading our efforts to do outreach to the Spanish-speaking community here, and support the Latin American Go community abroad.
There are articles on the AGA website documenting our efforts in collaboration with the relevant go associations and events such as the the Latin American Go Congress covered here:
And the Latin American Weiqui Championship covered here in a Report by Emil GarcĂa, President of the Ibero American Go Federation. No relation to Enrique (afaik):
I expect those efforts to result in improved Spanish language materials in the near future, but haven’t spoken to Enrique or anyone else about it since Portland in 2024.
