: Re: Credibility of using English in non-English-speaking worlds In the Magic Tree House series, two ordinary English-speaking kids travel to different faraway lands through a portal. Every character

Consider such works as 'Lord of the Rings'. Do you really think that anyone beyond the Shire would speak English, and yet they all do? (Yes there are other languages, but consider how they are introduced and used.)

Then think about sci-fi novels: set in the future and on other worlds and yet the language is still English that we can understand today (consider Shakespeare only died 400 years ago and how much the language has changed). Readers accept English without question.

I don't know the Magic Tree House and so can't comment on it specifically, but I do know that adults accept English speaking as the norm: see Star Trek and Doctor Who.

You just have to make it believable.

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