Today I have a video to give you a little bit of background about myself, since I get so many questions on this very topic. Learning languages through video games really works, and you should tell your mom that.
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World of Warcraft > Primary school
I started lerning english because of NBA JAM, he's heating up ! he's on fire ! Boom shackalaka ! 🤣
That's why my english still basic, i understand very well , but when i have to explain something, it takes me a bitt longer and using more words to, than a fluent english speaking person
I had a Japanese boss who learned english from a bunch of construction workers. Every second word was an F-bomb. He was a great boss though. lol
You are so pretty 🙂
No esperaba lo del español! loved the video
Same, learned most English through MMOs and games
me too, but that was 20 years ago lol
I started lesrning a lot of english because I really wanted to play Age of Empires 2, I had the trial version and I remember not even knowing that you need to click the secondary click for actions lol, I could not even past the tutorial, so I got an english-spanish dictionary to try to figure out word by word wtf was going on 😂
That's amazing! I did wonder about your background & have to say… Final Fantasy 8's walls of text helped my reading proficiency immensely
I love this, very wholesome. Thanks for sharing!
My primary English learning tool was Skyrim, no doubt, next is Minecraft, but omg, I'm so thankful for the day I decided to switch Skyrim's language from Spanish, to English
I already knew the dialogues in Spanish, so didn't need subtitles >:3
I sucked at spelling until I started playing WoW at the end of primary school. I never got my pen license, but I did learn to type. 😅
In the front of my mind: this is going to be a wholesome story
In the back of my mind: how many gamer words did she learn
So… your dad bought you WoW, or you played on his account? Im from Poland, and prices for subscription…well it wasn't in reach of 8 year old me. So I played on Private servers.
ni de lejos me lo esparaba,increible! que voz tan bonita! i have learned english in a similar way, by playing ACE online, it took me about 3 years of constant reading the chat.
I also learned english through games and mmos, especially Wow. El español lo aprendí en casa. Я не говорю по-русски, это перевел искусственный интеллект.
That's awesome. My polish partner learnt English from the muppets 😂
It's interesting, my parents are from Gwynedd, in North West Wales which is an area where the Welsh language is strong (part of the area referred to as Y Fro Gymraeg) and they moved to England where I was born. They spoke Welsh around the house (still do) and for a while I couldn't speak English, I could only speak Welsh
However when I went to school they started speaking English to me around the house, so I'm in an odd place where I can understand Welsh but gave trouble articulating it.
I'm relearning and now I can speak with them in Welsh but your parents did a very good thing keeping your Russian language going in the house. Your language is such a big part of who you are, so few people realise it.
I learned English playing and discussing Pokemon. If I got stuck or there was some special pokemon I wanted, I'd just hop on GameFAQs and find a guide. Like you, it took a while before those guides were more help than gibberish, but now I speak with a pretty high level. It does also help that there's very little Danish translations of anything. Especially 15-20 years ago when this was applicable to me, it was really hard to find Danish guides, movies are usually only subbed, not dubbed and there's even a lot of packaging in stores in English. So you'll be hearing and seeing a lot of English as a Dane. I've tried learning a few other languages too since, but I just can't stick with it without that same need and without it being so common in daily life.
Gaming certainly helped a ton with English for me as well. I got a 360 in 2009 and that's when I started high school. I had an amazing teacher but in my free time I did a lot of gaming. Some of the games that helped me a lot were the GTA games, VC SA and IV to read and listen to English – the mission in IV where you need to follow NPC directions to get to the place you have to was a real test for me back then haha – and for speaking, it was playing Halo 3 multiplayer.
I went from maybe A1 A2 level to high B2 in about 20 months, or by the end of my second year in high school, and then C1 by the time I graduated high school. Interesting bit is that I wasn't really prioritizing English, I just acquired it as time went by. Then spent some time abroad and dropped my accent nigh completely.
I am studying French for about 8 months now and now I'm at a level where I think I might start playing games in French. It worked once before with English, so why not give it a try.
Had a roommate from Colombia when I moved to Germany. We both needed an apartment and found a place together to lower bills for both.
Worked out because we both spoke english, and he spoke some english why….? Because he played Final Fantasy 7, could only get a copy in english, and he got sick of not knowing WTF was going on, so he eventually bought a Spanish-English dictionary and would play the game while translating everything so he understood.
Also worth mentioning Germans and French people don't have the best reputation for speaking good english, but the Dutch and Scandinavia do. What's a big difference between the two…? Germany and France dub Spongebob, the Netherlands and Scandinavia just subtitle it.
Passion is how you learn a language. It's also how I learned that I feel english being the world language is largely a myth, simply because most english speakers stay home and don't leave their country while most people were forced to learn english rather than enjoying it. Meanwhile, spanish speakers leave their home country all the time, and people often learn spanish as a passion project. That same Colombian roommate found people to speak spanish with constantly, while I met a total of 2 english speakers while learning German. (at least it motivated me to learn the language faster)
Это кто здесь не русский?? (с)
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да тут не надо быть шерлоком холмсом.. сразу видно восточно-славянский типаж.
Funny story. There was a time when I was learning english and sorta jumped between languages in games… so in one RPG game translation was for text but not graphical icons and I got an item "Один Bread". I'm still laughing at that. The rest of "translation" matched this perfectly.
But actual language learning I started from Sailor Moon fanfics… and I still remember the name of the first one :).
Это было интересно и лампово.
Me and my brother started our english journey unironically with yugioh cards as kids. Our mom had a LOT of translation requests from both of us back in the day xD. The rest was just tv/english courses and similar.
As French, I feel a bit like unlucky, because every games, movies, books, TV shows are translated or dubbed in French, which can be super cool or catastrophic, depending on how good translator or voice actors are. But it does not help to learn English or any other language. I really learned english during my trips in Asia, and by watching movies and TV shows in English, with French subtitles at first, because I wanted to hear the real voices of the actors and feel their emotions through it. Now I'm able to turn off the subtitles most of the time. But I don't talk in English every day, so I'm not fluent. I feel like I still try to translate my thoughts instead of really talk as a native English speaker would do. But I can make myself understood, so it's cool 😄
French people tended to be so proud of themselves, like France is the center of the universe, they didn't even bother to learn any other language for the cultural aspect of it, or just to be able to meet people from other countries. Nowadays, with Internet and online social interactions, young people can learn any other language so fast !
Same here, it was mostly video games that taught me English. My brother used to play vice city and I was sitting next to him listening to English, seeing russian subtitles and asking my brother to translate back to Polish.
I also learned English from playing games. When i started playing Minecraft there either was no russian translation or i didn't know how to switch language.
I wish there were some games in Gàidhlig.
Any Tibia enjoyers in chat?
Reading English came from reading the Harry Potter books in English. Particularly the fifth