i do that too a little bit just for grunt work. no use in wasting time.
listening to music in english so you memorize it and then learning the translations is a great way to pick up some big chunks of a language without alot of effort. I learned a little german this way thanks to RammStein.
you're english isn't bad at all. if you'd not said you were in Thailand, i'd not have noticed. i was friends with a foreign exchange student from germany who was trying to learn c++ from a book in english and he didn't do too bad, but he freaked out when the autor kept saying to "execute the code".
and for menus, just make a bitmap of the menu and put a loop that checks the mouse position when it clicks and goes to the next menu if it's on a button.
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