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Videogames have their own language, a way to communicate with the player regardless of whether or not they can understand the text or voice of the game. That's why kids that still haven't learnt how to read can beat games that give them instructions by text. And as any other language, its one that you have to learn.
This is the story of how i used my understanding the videogame language to learn the English as my secondary language.
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Thank you! :)
Turk here, that was the same for me. But I learned it from minecraft lets plays back in the day. Not to mention I am very good at it now.
That's great to hear!
if you don't mind me asking, what is your native language?
I totally understand what you mean, I learned to read from video games because I wanted to play I started to lean.. and pokemon taught me pronunciation..
Thanks for the comment :)
It's so cool to see the lengths one goes through just to better enjoy a hobby.
Now i guess you mean you learnt pronunciation from Pokemon the cartoons right? cus the only sounds i remember from the games are the screams and screeches from the pokemon :p
Very nice!
Same story for me... I live in Italy, and when I was 7-8 years old, every month at the newsstand there was a new issue of "PC Subito", some sort of PC course. Together with it, there were floppy disks with free software. In particular, the only games were the shareware versions of Apogee's and Epic Megagames'... obviously in english. I started learning english that way: if I wanted to understand the plot of a game, I had to grab a dictionary and start translating by myself. Glad I'm not the only one!!
hahaha thanks for sharing :p
ironically, as a kid i didnt care much about not knowing the plot of the games i played, i just made them up in my mind. For me Chrono Trigger was about a son of Goku (from dragon ball) in the future saving someone.
The fact that i didnt know anything story-wise of those games adds an extra level of enjoyment when i re-play them nowadays :p
I video your cartoons! They're so relate-able! I'm learning French and German! I don't have any help from video games, but I read books, change the language settings on some websites and my phone, and change movie languages and subtitles. I play Japanese games and watch anime, so I get around with it in that area, but I wouldn't try to Japan on that! But, I have a very hard speaking anything other than English. I'd say I can read very well, and I could write well, if I did it more. Thank so much for making this!
Glad you liked it :)