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?
I am mostly playing “broken sword series” in french. They seem to have German too. It is point and click.
Would be cool if someone made a game or mod a game like skyrim. where player start of as a kid and learn about things in the world, words and etc, do chores, run errands for your parents go to school, play games with other kids, solve mysteries around the neighborhood, grow older until the game eventually leads to the main quest of skyrim. The childhood stage should teach enough of language (at least the min vocab required) to be able to play the main game.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will certainly try the reforged version. Btw it seems Skyrim itself is a good contender as it has both audio and subtitles available in 9 languages.
Yup I am working up to be able to eventually play Skyrim and Kingdom Come : deliverance.