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Video games to learn languages (discuss.tchncs.de)
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I have been using video games as a mean of learning German and it works pretty well. I just wanted to share a few titles that work nicely for me.

  • Epistory (typing game) great to get used to writing simple words but the story can only be listen to in English.
  • Knights of honor (a grand strategy game), nice to expand vocabulary and seeing over and over again the same words, can be easily paused to translate stuff
  • the curse of monkey Island (point and click), the vocabulary is much harder here, but the voices and text are really well made.
  • I have not tried it, but I also saw Wonderlang which is a RPG specifically dedicated to language learning.

Does anyone have other recommendations, for German or for other languages?

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 4 months ago

Old post, but as I see no mention of it, there's the trilogy Learn Japanese to Survive. First two games are for learning hiragana and katakana writing systems respectively, and the third is for kanji (so both for the writing system and the vocabulary that comes along). However, from what I've played of them, they don't go through grammar, so additional learning materials are still needed.