Awesome advice Matt. Been playing a Japanese MMO for a couple of months and one more great advice is playing those like the elder scrolls online where you have almost unlimited amount of quests with dialogue both written and voice acted. when you have so much independent stories you can let go of the need to understand everything and every quest. (that's super immersive and you can always make a new character and do the quests again adding more xp to all characters, nothing wasted, and then look back and see how big of an area you've completed in that language and that's awesome. plus when you get good you can talk to foreign players).
Great video! You have a new subscriber :) I'm learning German by playing Pokémon Sapphire for the GBA and it's been a great way to learn vocabulary and analyze sentence structure. I'm still a beginner, so not a lot of playing is being done, tbh. I'm mostly just reading, pausing all the time, and taking notes, but I still find it surpisingly enjoyable! One thing I would recommend is using DeepL instead of Google Translate. It's way more accurate.
I would really encourage being intermediate or replaying a game you really enjoy. because if you can’t understand a story of a game it’s hard to enjoy it and if you don’t enjoy it . It’s okay if you only understand like 40% of what’s being conveyed but if you don’t understand 95% then it’s really easy to feel like you aren’t making language progress and you are having a miserable time with the game. Which isn’t the point. So I just want to emphasize to anyone who is using anything like video games or novels to practice a language make sure you chose something that you’ll enjoy and is level appropriate
I've been learning Japanese through untranslated RPG games. It is slow, but I'm starting to pick out vocab which is speeding things up not always having to look up all the words.
Thanks! This was great! Does anyone know of any online places (YT channels, FB groups, Reddit pages, websites, etc) where people regularly discuss which games are available in which languages? I plan on becoming a pc gamer someday, when I have the money, but until then I'm pretty much stuck with consoles.
ive been looking for a video like this, i absolutely love video games for immersion
Awesome advice Matt.
Been playing a Japanese MMO for a couple of months and one more great advice is playing those like the elder scrolls online where you have almost unlimited amount of quests with dialogue both written and voice acted. when you have so much independent stories you can let go of the need to understand everything and every quest.
(that's super immersive and you can always make a new character and do the quests again adding more xp to all characters, nothing wasted, and then look back and see how big of an area you've completed in that language and that's awesome. plus when you get good you can talk to foreign players).
Great video! You have a new subscriber :) I'm learning German by playing Pokémon Sapphire for the GBA and it's been a great way to learn vocabulary and analyze sentence structure. I'm still a beginner, so not a lot of playing is being done, tbh. I'm mostly just reading, pausing all the time, and taking notes, but I still find it surpisingly enjoyable!
One thing I would recommend is using DeepL instead of Google Translate. It's way more accurate.
excellent video thank you
Matt as always! i always look forward to these videos :)
Wow, thank you! Really good content
I would really encourage being intermediate or replaying a game you really enjoy. because if you can’t understand a story of a game it’s hard to enjoy it and if you don’t enjoy it .
It’s okay if you only understand like 40% of what’s being conveyed but if you don’t understand 95% then it’s really easy to feel like you aren’t making language progress and you are having a miserable time with the game. Which isn’t the point.
So I just want to emphasize to anyone who is using anything like video games or novels to practice a language make sure you chose something that you’ll enjoy and is level appropriate
Awesome video! Steam is a goldmine!
Could you provide links for the sites in the video description, it'll help others in the future :)
Thanks! and sorry I missed your comment. That is a great suggestion and I just added a number of platforms to the description.
I've been learning Japanese through untranslated RPG games. It is slow, but I'm starting to pick out vocab which is speeding things up not always having to look up all the words.
Can you learn Bulgarian language with video games?
Thanks! This was great! Does anyone know of any online places (YT channels, FB groups, Reddit pages, websites, etc) where people regularly discuss which games are available in which languages?
I plan on becoming a pc gamer someday, when I have the money, but until then I'm pretty much stuck with consoles.