First: i didn't know where this topic should be, so i thought i put it in the tavern
But i hear from a lot of friends that video games improved their english, and a teacher of mine said: boys who don't do a thing but gaming score low in every subject, except for English. What's your opinion about it? Did you also learn other languages other then English?
I used to play maplestory, and free realms, and runescape, all that stuff. Then I got addicted to flash games. But yes, I'd have to say that it helped my typing a lot, and my grammar. But, it didn't help my english.
Wow, this is really interesting, I never would have thought about this subject but it makes sense. I am a native english speaker, but I have learned a lot about history and mythology just playing Age of Empires and Age of Mythology. This is probably because I look the characters up on my own though.
Well, I maybe did learn'd English from video games, but I usually learn 'new' English words from Internet/books. But I usually think in English pretty much these days, and I barely think in Finnish.
Video games made me finish my English classes two years before time in high school. My first tongue's french so you can imagine how much I learned from the sole fact of being an hardcore gamer: back then, all the games where english only... Heck; I'm bilingual because of video games, thank you Sonic to have spurred my interest in gaming!
Mostly, i guess. My English has advanced throughout the years of gaming experience and talking with other american friends, and listening to music(which is in English), i barely listen to music in my native language ; Spanish.
I've tried so hard to talk a lot of English, but some times, due to the fact that i am indeed, shy, i barely talk any English, But i do certainly talk in English with my fellow older brothers. I do, think that my English is rather fine, my friends say the same, Although i haven't quite talked it much, this year. But i look forward into learning more English.
I guess when I was 4 and I played video games. I learned a lot of new words from video games then but now my vocabulary has been enhanced and does not need any more enhancement... for now.
