Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time

Re:Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time by mrfusion on Thursday March 13, 2014 @09:08AM (#7391501)

I agree about the idea of being forced to speak it.

I think a cool idea would be some kind of RPG or MMORGP where you are forced to speak the language you are learning to accomplish tasks in the game.

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Re:Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time by bernatfp on Thursday March 13, 2014 @09:19AM (#7391559)

Incidentally, I have a friend who learned English as a third language exactly this way, playing WoW. He obtained the CAE this way.

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Re:Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time by pbhjpbhj on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:34AM (#7392461)

Perhaps if you want to learn profanities? I've been on a few foreign language servers with text-based messaging (Enemy Territory) and all requests for help with slang terms has always met with attempts to deceive me:

Me: "slt, ksk c'est 'putain de merde' svp?"

Pierre: "In English that means 'airstrike'"

TLM: "MDR"

... or something along those lines.

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Re:Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time by antimagic on Thursday March 13, 2014 @12:18PM (#7392775)

I'm loving the mixture of sms speak and vouvoying...

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Re:Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time by pbhjpbhj on Thursday March 13, 2014 @05:49PM (#7395343)

Should I tutoyer when I'm being made fun of by strangers in the chatbox of an FPS. Language is so complex. Actually it's probably because we drop "s'il vous plait" in to speech in our family (or sometimes asante sana or danke schon) so I'd think of that first before parsing it as a vous form. Good spotting.

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