Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Learning Languages Through Video Games?" video.

  1. GermanCurl: I took spanish for 3 year sin grade school. Only remember bits and pieces and I didn't feel very proficient at it when finishing. But I got really good grades in it regardless, because my spanish teacher (a chilean native) fell in love with my pronounciation. XD I have this tendency to parrot words and languages and mimic the way they sound without knowing what the hell i'm talking about. It doesn't really help me understand a language, but it does help pronouncing it a little.
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  2. Japanese is so confusing with it's rules of formality though. :S At what end should you approach it? Learn the formal vocabulary first or the informal? Learning both at once seems like an invitation to confusing yourself.
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  3. Fuhq Ewe: Maybe because he gets several thousands of comments? It's hard to sit around replying to all. It would be a full time job, that could be better spent making videos. That doesn't mean that he isn't reading the comments though. Yet again perhaps not all of them, because there are thousands. But evidently he reads comments because he frequently refer to them as reason for making several videos.
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  4. I can also attest to the fact that video games and movies are much more effective att teaching a new language than books and schools will ever be. Especially videogames and movies with SUBTITLES! English is not my native tongue, but in grade school I was put in an advanced class of english at high school levels because I had exceeded so far beyond my peers that I wasn't learning much at all during regular classes. The reason? My mother didn't outright forbid me from watching science fiction, action, horror and fantasy for adults when I was a boy. So while my peers were only allowed to watch locally produced kids shows in our native tounge, I was watching films like Alien, The Terminator, Robocop, Conan the Barbarian, Star Wars, Predator and the like at the age of 6 or 7 years old. These films the characters spoke in english, but were subtitled in my native language. And I absorbed english like a sponge that way. I was entertained the whole time, and had that childlike fascination of these movies that I watched them over and over. Then video gaming came along for me, and I had even more incentive to learn more advanced words in written and spoken english. So when I got to the point in school where me and my peers were supposed to be INTRODUCED to learning english, not only could I pretty much read and understand an english newspaper, I could hold an adult conversation in english with near perfect fluency and even understood and could describe quite a few technical and academic terms. This is a big reason why I hate the practice of dubbing in video games and movies. Not only does it detract from immersion when for instance, a movie set in france where all the characters are supposed to be native french, yet they speak in english with some british english accent, but it also misses out on a golden opportunity to make the audience learn a new language without really realizing that they are. I wish they made more games and films with subtitles. It will only make their viewers and players better people.
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