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| ANK47 Triglot Senior Member United States thearabicstudent.blo Joined 7096 days ago 188 posts - 259 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (classical) | Message 17 of 30 19 August 2011 at 4:13am | IP Logged |
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Fifa 12 will be in Arabic along with Arabic commentary of the games.
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| Dr. POW Groupie Canada Joined 4964 days ago 48 posts - 58 votes Studies: German, English* Studies: French | Message 18 of 30 20 August 2011 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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@Jeffers
I'm sorry, but the post with the links was deleted, so I guess that means links to roms and such aren't allowed on the forums. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6033 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 19 of 30 20 August 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
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I have played Dragon Age and Icewind Dale in French. Both are great games with plenty of dialogue. Dragon Age has excellent voice acting, whereas Icewind Dale is more textual. Mass Effect is also a very good choice.
I find Japanese RPG games less useful becasue the text tends to be simplistic and usually there is no voice acting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Carlucio Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4857 days ago 70 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 20 of 30 20 August 2011 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
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I have played games in English my entire life,just a few games are translated to portuguese, if you want to understand the story you have to learn English or Spanish.
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| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4845 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 21 of 30 21 August 2011 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
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I always play video games in English, not in French. I love Ragnarok Online. Eragon is also decent.
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| Randwulf Newbie United States Joined 4891 days ago 32 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English* | Message 22 of 30 15 December 2012 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't played more than a few video games in foreign languages but I found The
Witcher: Enhanced Edition pretty good as far as practicing language. There are lots of cutscenes and dialog and a lot of reading. And you can change spoken language and subtitle language independently, so you could for example listen to a conversation in German while reading subtitles in English. Languages supported are English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Czech, and Hungarian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4771 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 23 of 30 16 December 2012 at 9:59am | IP Logged |
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I've found RPGs to be a great language learning resource, due to them also being dialogue-heavy. I believe that I learned a significant portion of my more advanced vocabulary from the KotOR series and the English versions of the Pokémon games. Recently I got into Visual Novels as well, and those are pretty much all-dialogue, sometimes with conversational options that can change the outcome of the game. The one I'm playing right now, Katawa Shoujo, is one of the very few VNs that weren't made in Japan. Its premise and the fact that it originated on 4chan may be off-putting, but it's actually surprisingly well-written. The game is available to download for free and the first act is available in English, German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Unfortunately, the complete game isn't yet available in languages other than English, but I believe that the translations are in progress for at least some of the listed languages. Still, Act I alone is hours of gameplay (about two if you're playing in a language you're natively proficient in) with six possible endings. Edited by vonPeterhof on 16 December 2012 at 9:59am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| nakrian keegiat Diglot Groupie Thailand Joined 4906 days ago 70 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English*, Thai Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 30 16 December 2012 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
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That sounds really interesting Peter, thanks. Too bad they don't have it in Thai. 4chan, huh? I'm scared of that place but I assume you've checked it out and it's safe to install?
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