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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5399 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 17 of 22 01 July 2010 at 1:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to play the free first person shooter "Combat Arms" which is able to be downloaded everywhere, it's a really fun game if you don't like paying for one, it's VERY similar to Modern Warfare.
I played with people from all over the world. I was using languages constantly, mostly English, Spanish, and Portuguese in that order. I was VERY surprised to see the number of Spanish and Portuguese speakers on there (there are about 1.2 million people that play it) I had a microphone from my Spanish class, so we were all able to talk to one another. It was a lot of fun to talk in Spanish to one another, screaming out random commands or explitives :D I never really knew how much Spanish I knew, until I played that game and was screaming things like "I need ammo!" or "Toss a grenade and kill that loser" of course I always had a dictionary and was looking up other words. It was a a lot of fun, but I realized I could be out in the real world, I'd rather be outside than play a videogame. :) Jordan Edited by datsunking1 on 01 July 2010 at 1:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5141 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 18 of 22 01 July 2010 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | ||
I'll have to try that out, I don't play video games much but if it helps my Spanish...well then I guess I will. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aras Groupie United States Joined 6572 days ago 76 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Ancient Greek | Message 19 of 22 02 July 2010 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I tend to stick to first-person shooters and real-time strategy games, in which conversation is an afterthought. However, it's always nice to know a couple of words in various languages.
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| ANK47 Triglot Senior Member United States thearabicstudent.blo Joined 6911 days ago 188 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (classical) | Message 20 of 22 02 July 2010 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Someone find a game where you can switch the language to Arabic :P.
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| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5166 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 21 of 22 05 July 2010 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I used to be a large gamer, but now I've picked up other interests and therefore I do not play nearly so much anymore. I do believe that games can be a good way for improving one's language skills, however.
I own a copy of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Gameboy in German, although I did not play through it properly yet. I loved the game as a child, and feel that it will be a fun time navigating through the game in German. Really, any RPG in a foreign language would help one learn more vocabulary, I think. I grew up with the original Nintendo/NES, and at one point I managed to grab a game titled die Schlümpfe for NES, before I even studied German. It is so cool now to be able to read it as I play it through the German setting (the game has multiple language choices). For awhile I have also wanted to purchase a copy of Shadowgate (an old PC game that was ported to the NES) in German, although with the shipping, it is always more expensive on eBay then what I want to pay. Once again, a text heavy game where I could learn new vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| plaidchuck Diglot Groupie United States facebook.com/plaidchRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5119 days ago 71 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 22 of 22 07 July 2010 at 6:55am | IP Logged | ||
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This can be a fun thing for a little extra immersion. I've switched the interface language of my PS3 to Spanish and it's been helpful in picking up computer/internet words that I may have not encountered sooner. Also when you play a game if the game is available in that language it will automatically switch the game to the language. GTA 4 has every dialogue subtitled in Spanish, for example.
I would imagine RPGs could be a treasure trove if you were trying to learn Japanese, especially with the older games and emulators that are available now. Unfortunately I don't have much time these days to dive into an RPG(although if it had spoken Spanish dialogue I'd be more interested) so I'm usually confined to shooters and sports games. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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