One thing that has always interested me, since coming to the geek, is.. "How dependent is any particular game on it's native language".. or more succinctly "Can I get the German Edition?"

To that end, I have attempted to categorise games by how much in-game text there is, and hence how easy is it to play a foreign language edition of the game. For the purposes of simplicity I have assumed that there will be a copy of the game RULES in your own language, given that games often come with multi-lingual rules anyway, and if not one can usually find a decent translation here on our beloved BGG... I know this is not always the case for many European languages, and I apologise for not being able to fully cater to everyone.

To analyse games based on language, I have set up 5 tags to represent different levels of language use. These are described below, along with a link to the tag, which lists ALL the games currently tagged in such a way.

With a combined effort we have been able to tag all of the games in the top 100, plus quite a few other games in mine and others collections.

If you think any games in the BGG database fits in one of the language categories, please post a comment under that category indicating the name of the game... I will tag all games as people identify them, to hopefully build up a database of language independance.

Additionally, people should feel free to tag games themselves with their own interpretation of the games language level {please use the suggested tag names for consistency), that way if some games fall between the levels, it will be obvious by how many people rate a game LL-0 say, compared to LL-1, what the language dependency of the game is really like.

There is now also a wiki page about language_neutral games, which references this geeklist and the language level tags.

Thanks to Aratar there is now a list of the top 250 games on BGG showing their language level and linking to a set of English rules where possible:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/24522