Jared Gimbel - Using Video Games to Learn and Maintain Languages

Описание: Jared Gimbel - Video games are slated to become one of the largest industries on the planet. As such, in a time in which languages feel threatened, many of their online communities will make Indie games and create translations of existing games (like Minecraft) in order to get people to engage with their language in a technological sphere. You can use video games to learn a vocabulary set in extraordinary detail (such as military, sports, high fantasy or even cooking vocabulary). The important thing: pick a wide variety of games and always read aloud. But within contemporary video game culture lies a genre of video that is arguably one of the most efficient, unorthodox and unused language learning tools: “Ley’s Play” videos, in which a person or a group of people play a video game with live commentary. Such videos are viewable for free in dozens upon dozens of languages (although mostly those from the developed world) for hundreds of games. These videos exist in rarer languages like Welsh and in Icelandic as well as more common languages like German or Portuguese. The “Let’s Play” genre enables people to engage with casual registers of a language used in their most natural, unscripted states (something that a lot of television doesn’t do). Furthermore, a lot of commentators, when playing English versions of the game, translate all game dialogue and item names into their native tongue, making it a very efficient “picture dictionary” that can help train you to think in a language very quickly.

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