With the release of Chinese cards again as well as 2 new languages, do you guys think we have a chance of seeing Dutch, Polish, or Russian cards again? Why?
I would say probably not due to the lack of demand.
I would love to see them return, but I also doubt there is enough demand. More languages, the better. I’ve always wanted to see Hindi and Arabic since I’m a sucker for different types of alphabets. I really wish we had Cyrillic again.
Dutch probably not. Although there are quite a lot of collectors here on the forum from The Netherlands, I don’t see a lot of Pokémon cards in toy shops in general here. I honestly don’t even know any Pokémon stores in the region I live. There are still some toy shops that sell Pokémon cards, but I would be (pleasantly) surprised if they started printing Dutch cards again. But maybe I’m just living in the wrong side of The Netherlands and Pokémon is more popular elsewhere? I don’t know anyone irl who collects Pokémon cards as well, though. Except for the ones who are active here on the forum or reddit.
All my Pokémon discussions are through forums like here, and all my Pokémon purchases through webshops or online contacts.
Greetz,
Quuador
I honestly think that the reason that they print limited sets in Chinese is to keep Organized Play out of Chinese mainland. The Chinese sets they have are only available in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where majority is able to read and speak English and English cards are legal. Same goes for the Philippines. Players there just have English cards. I honestly question Pokemon/TCPI tactics with Thailand, their sets are behind standard play, and only way to open the market is to have standard organized play available there.
Polish and Russians were test for Pokemon/TCPI to see if those were new markets. Both failed.
Dutch; nah. I don’t want Dutch cards again. As Quaador said, Pokemon product is barely available here. The toy stores barely carry any product. My local Intertoys only just put up Let’s Play! Pikachu decks on the shelves, they usually 3 weeks late with the new set and Hidden Fates is just not there (sales person didn’t even know about the product). They really do (also caused by Asmodian, terrible distributor) no effort.
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If the popularity keeps growing then very possibly yes.
This made me laugh. The wrong side of the Netherlands, like the Netherlands is big enough to have multiple sides. 
But yeah, I sell a lot to a young demographic and they’re perfectly able to collect and play the cards in English. Dutch is simply unnecessary here, though I will appreciate the novelty for sure!
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You’re right, The Netherlands is very tiny. I mainly meant it as maybe there are still some Pokémon TCG shops in some cities, but I personally don’t know any nearby where I live.
And that’s also a good point. In my youth we started learning English from group 7 or 8 of primary school (~ age 10-12). But I think these days it already starts earlier at most schools? I don’t have kids, so not sure at what classes they start these days?
But, English is indeed very common here in The Netherlands, both at school and just all around. Loads of movies and series on TV are in English; YouTube is primarily in English; etc. etc. So I don’t think there is a need to have Dutch Pokémon cards, which is probably also why they stopped them so soon after the first few sets (Base, Jungle, Fossil).
Greetz,
Quuador
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I would have loved the cards to be in Dutch though at some point. When I started playing Pokémon again, back in the DPPt/HGSS era, with my nephew he struggled with the card text sometimes and the ruling that applied (he was 10-11 at the time). Would’ve been way easier for him and the, dozen or so, other kids at the local Pokémon League to play at a higher level.
But besides that I can’t be bothered a rats ass about seeing any product being translated to Dutch any more.
Game developers do terrible jobs at them (bad voice acting, bad voice casting, below average translations/adaptations of menus, terms, items etc.) and just ruin my game experience. And sadly even setting up your game console or PC to play the game in English still prompts confusing Dutch game menus (this is why I don’t buy your games any more Ubisoft!). Dutch adaptions of games and other original English (although they fuck up a lot recently with German board game translations too) are so below average now a days, that if it’s only in Dutch I just simply do not buy it.
My 3-year-old knows how to count to 12, knows all the main colors and sings the Pokémon theme song phonetically in English. She learned a lot from toddler programs, which happen to broadcast alternately in English and Dutch here on Dutch television.
Besides; being bilingual is great, no matter where you’ll end up in life. That’s why I encourage my kids to learn both Dutch and English.
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Never ever Dutch cards again. It will not happen because the distributor has to pay extra for the translations/printing. And those translations were so bad during the the base-fossil period.
I am still getting the creeps if I read “aflegstapel” (Dutch terrible translation for Discard Pile)
I have been learning kids this game now for almost 20 years and it’s no problem in English.
Like it hasn’t been a problem for kids from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and a lot of other non English players to use the English cards.
As for collectibles, I dislike them but that a personal opinion.
I can understand it’s fun to collect same artwork in different languages.
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2 new languages, as well? Which may they be, if I may ask? 
Can’t find much information on this topic, might just be me being dumb, though…
Thai and Malay both came out recently
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Oh, awesome, I did hear about the Thai now that I think about it, didn’t know it came out it Malaysia too 
Do we have any info on the set releases? (Specifically which cards are in the set?) ^^
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To quote myself:
Greetz,
Quuador
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