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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4995 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 9 of 16 21 November 2011 at 12:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Serpent, perhaps you should just show him something which has not been dubbed yet, preferably an adictive tv series. Or one which is half the fun when dubbed (Such as the Big Bang Theory). Just make him not want to wait for dubbing.
Tmp011077 thanks, I have one more reason to finaly start an asian language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5389 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 10 of 16 21 November 2011 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I started playing video games when I was 11 and the first games I played were quite full
of texts, like Caesar III, Zeus and Pharaoh (I played city-building strategy games), which required me to read a lot of English instructions in order to fulfil missions and pass levels. Playing games and watching Cartoon Network taught me more English than I learned in classroom, where I almost never paid any attention, yet I always got an A. :-) Edited by Delodephius on 21 November 2011 at 6:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4895 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 11 of 16 27 November 2011 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
I play Runescape, which has versions for English, French, German and Portuguese (Brazilian). There is no spoken dialogue, but everything you use is named in the language, and players can do a lot of chatting. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5509 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 12 of 16 28 November 2011 at 6:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Try watching "Let's Play" videos in other languages.
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| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4810 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 13 of 16 03 December 2011 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I agree, I learned English in part thanks to my obsession with video games as a young boy. I wish there was video
games in polish but I'm afraid there's not. EDIT : Ok, there are games in polish! I found some on the internet, polish translations of rpgs like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger for the good old SNES. I'm in gamers heaven. Edited by Homogenik on 03 December 2011 at 9:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5217 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 14 of 16 04 December 2011 at 7:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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I just asked my wife if I could start playing video games to help improve my Chinese. She said "no." :-(
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| FELlX Diglot Groupie France Joined 4756 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 15 of 16 04 December 2011 at 10:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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Gaming helped me improve my English a lot. I got a mic, and started chatting with some other people playing with me, many of them being English native speakers. This was the only way I could practise.
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| slymie Tetraglot Groupie China Joined 5214 days ago 81 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English, Macedonian Studies: French, Mandarin, Greek Studies: Shanghainese, Uyghur, Russian | Message 16 of 16 05 December 2011 at 4:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have been going every friday to play cards with Chinese people for the past few years.
The practice from reading the cards, discussing the game and just conversing has been invaluable. Now that I've moved on to Shanghainese its my best chance to practice spoken Shanghainese as well as learn new words. I've made dozens of Chinese friends this way as well and often go for dinners with them. Finding a way to practice your language while doing something you love is key, imo. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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