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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4315 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 1 of 3 19 May 2014 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
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I was thinking about finally playing through point-and-click adventures in French, but
my French is at a very low level. I've seen games mentioned here on HTLAL sometimes, but as far as I can see, those are usually used as comprehensible input at higher levels (except for specific language-learning games). I'd love to hear how you folks would go about such an undertaking? My idea for now is as follows: I would play Broken Sword 1 and 2 in ScummVM, allowing me to have 2 instances of the game open at the same time as two adjacent windows. Sound would be French in both, but one window would have French subtitles, the other German. In each dialogue, I would first listen to it in French with French subtitles and would try to get as much out of it as possible. Then I would do the same action in the other window to get to read the German subtitles while hearing the French voice again. Basically a micro version of L- R. I'm not sure how annoying this would be, hearing the same sentences twice in a row ... What do you think? Some infos to my current French level: - 2 years middle-school French more than 10 years ago (I still remember the basic grammar) - went through Paul Noble and Michel Thomas last summer - I have an Anki deck with about 1500 words already seen - toyed around a bit with Duolingo, but didn't get far I have no intentions of formally learning French right now, but only doing Anki just seems pointless ... so gaming it shall be. Edited by daegga on 19 May 2014 at 1:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6391 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 3 19 May 2014 at 8:24am | IP Logged |
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Why not just try actual LR and parallel texts?
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4315 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 3 of 3 19 May 2014 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
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Not an option. I'm doing this stuff during long train rides, parallel texts feel like
too much work, I'd rather go for something easy and/or fun like reading Scandinavian books, but even that I can't do for 7-8 hours straight. I'm not looking for alternatives to games, I'm looking for the best way to use games at a low level, even if the best way is not as efficient as other methods. And I'm still not convinced that my proposed way is the best way to use games... so I'm looking forward to different proposals. Edited by daegga on 19 May 2014 at 11:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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