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Is ESO a good language learning tool?
Kos
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Hey all. I have bought ESO mainly because of wanting to improve my English - I knew the quests would have full voice over so I went to the shop and bought the game. I can now tell after nearly 3 months of playing it - It has been by far the most enjoyable way I have ever tried to learn English - I can listen to speakers and see the text on the screen and at the same time enjoy the game and actually take part in this adventure. The side effect is that I have actually become addicted to it, I am nearly veteran level 6 now, I have even successfully tanked one of the veteran dungeons, the Banished Cells 
. Anyways I wonder if there are others like me who use ESO for educational purpose (too) and do you find it useful? Thanks!
. Anyways I wonder if there are others like me who use ESO for educational purpose (too) and do you find it useful? Thanks! 21
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Falmer✭✭✭✭Congratulations. That's a pretty brilliant way to enhance learning another language. My hats off to you.
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Pele✭✭✭✭✭That's great, but be aware that there are a few typos in some dialogue, descriptions, and tool tips. I've read in the patch notes that some were corrected, so I cannot say how many more are still in-game.0 -
Tarrin✭✭✭Ne, he dont were the langvige tul to lern englishSamurai without a sword
Like a samurai with the sword
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kimboh✭✭✭✭@Kos good for you, congrats.That's great, but be aware that there are a few typos in some dialogue, descriptions, and tool tips. I've read in the patch notes that some were corrected, so I cannot say how many more are still in-game.
This, also some NPCs have strange accents and often pronounce words wrong or in an awkward way.Status: offline<l Cygnus X|VR14|Sorc l><| Romulus Prime|VR12|Temp |><| Qwoptus |lvl30|DK|><| DC|EU |>0 -
Kos✭✭✭@Kos good for you, congrats.That's great, but be aware that there are a few typos in some dialogue, descriptions, and tool tips. I've read in the patch notes that some were corrected, so I cannot say how many more are still in-game.
This, also some NPCs have strange accents and often pronounce words wrong or in an awkward way.
Thank you and yes I have noticed not all dialogues are consistent, but it makes it more challenging Edited by Kos on June 28, 2014 12:42PM3 -
Magdalina✭✭✭✭✭
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Well, I don't know how much of that is thanks to ESO, but your English looks very good to me=) Just make sure you don't learn from one of those "lol god gramer iz stupid" people that seem to be populating the chat xDHey all. I have bought ESO mainly because of wanting to improve my English - I knew the quests would have full voice over so I went to the shop and bought the game. I can now tell after nearly 3 months of playing it - It has been by far the most enjoyable way I have ever tried to learn English - I can listen to speakers and see the text on the screen and at the same time enjoy the game and actually take part in this adventure. The side effect is that I have actually become addicted to it, I am nearly veteran level 6 now, I have even successfully tanked one of the veteran dungeons, the Banished Cells. Anyways I wonder if there are others like me who use ESO for educational purpose (too) and do you find it useful? Thanks!
Games are generally a good way to improve your language, so is talking to people. Seeing as ESO combines both, that's pretty awesome. Also, if you find yourself a good group to get on skype/teamspeak/whatever with while running dungeons or something, that's AWESOME practice. After 3 hours in vet Spindle I no longer cared what accent they had and could keep up with their swearing just fine:D
On a side note - no, English is not my first language either, I'm Russian.
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Kos✭✭✭Thank you and yes I have noticed not all dialogues are consistent, but it makes it more challenging 0
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Kos✭✭✭
Well, I don't know how much of that is thanks to ESO, but your English looks very good to me=) Just make sure you don't learn from one of those "lol god gramer iz stupid" people that seem to be populating the chat xDHey all. I have bought ESO mainly because of wanting to improve my English - I knew the quests would have full voice over so I went to the shop and bought the game. I can now tell after nearly 3 months of playing it - It has been by far the most enjoyable way I have ever tried to learn English - I can listen to speakers and see the text on the screen and at the same time enjoy the game and actually take part in this adventure. The side effect is that I have actually become addicted to it, I am nearly veteran level 6 now, I have even successfully tanked one of the veteran dungeons, the Banished Cells. Anyways I wonder if there are others like me who use ESO for educational purpose (too) and do you find it useful? Thanks!
Games are generally a good way to improve your language, so is talking to people. Seeing as ESO combines both, that's pretty awesome. Also, if you find yourself a good group to get on skype/teamspeak/whatever with while running dungeons or something, that's AWESOME practice. After 3 hours in vet Spindle I no longer cared what accent they had and could keep up with their swearing just fine:D
On a side note - no, English is not my first language either, I'm Russian.
Hey thank you for your comment. I was thinking of getting on teamspeak but I was always afraid of not being able to get what someone has to say. It will be like Veteran level for me 0 -
brandon✭✭✭✭Congratulations! Like the guy a few posts above me said games are a great learning tool.0 -
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You'll be fine:) Just find some sane people, not elitists, who won't mind repeating something for you or typing it if it comes to that. This is not as bad as it may sound, there's actually plenty of nice people in game, just that...not nice people are always louder. Also, never give up - when you hear a person with new accent, it often seems indecipherable at first, and not being able to actually see them talk doesn't help, but practice really does make perfect; you get used to it rather fast. ^^
Well, I don't know how much of that is thanks to ESO, but your English looks very good to me=) Just make sure you don't learn from one of those "lol god gramer iz stupid" people that seem to be populating the chat xDHey all. I have bought ESO mainly because of wanting to improve my English - I knew the quests would have full voice over so I went to the shop and bought the game. I can now tell after nearly 3 months of playing it - It has been by far the most enjoyable way I have ever tried to learn English - I can listen to speakers and see the text on the screen and at the same time enjoy the game and actually take part in this adventure. The side effect is that I have actually become addicted to it, I am nearly veteran level 6 now, I have even successfully tanked one of the veteran dungeons, the Banished Cells. Anyways I wonder if there are others like me who use ESO for educational purpose (too) and do you find it useful? Thanks!
Games are generally a good way to improve your language, so is talking to people. Seeing as ESO combines both, that's pretty awesome. Also, if you find yourself a good group to get on skype/teamspeak/whatever with while running dungeons or something, that's AWESOME practice. After 3 hours in vet Spindle I no longer cared what accent they had and could keep up with their swearing just fine:D
On a side note - no, English is not my first language either, I'm Russian.
Hey thank you for your comment. I was thinking of getting on teamspeak but I was always afraid of not being able to get what someone has to say. It will be like Veteran level for me
If you don't mind my asking, where're you from?
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✭✭✭✭ESO is more than helpful. Remember when the nature spirits in Glenumbra desperately wanted to teach everyone German? :P
But seriously, most games are - improve your language skills AND have fun at the same time, what better way is there to learn?
I can't say I intentionally use games as an English learning tool. I just play them in the original language - 99% of time English - because it's usually more enjoyable than less-than-perfect translations to my native tongue (if the game's translated at all. ESO isn't.) But I have played a few games in French just to practice.
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Kos✭✭✭
Games are generally a good way to improve your language, so is talking to people. Seeing as ESO combines both, that's pretty awesome. Also, if you find yourself a good group to get on skype/teamspeak/whatever with while running dungeons or something, that's AWESOME practice. After 3 hours in vet Spindle I no longer cared what accent they had and could keep up with their swearing just fine:D
On a side note - no, English is not my first language either, I'm Russian.
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Hey thank you for your comment. I was thinking of getting on teamspeak but I was always afraid of not being able to get what someone has to say. It will be like Veteran level for me [/quote]
You'll be fine:) Just find some sane people, not elitists, who won't mind repeating something for you or typing it if it comes to that. This is not as bad as it may sound, there's actually plenty of nice people in game, just that...not nice people are always louder. Also, never give up - when you hear a person with new accent, it often seems indecipherable at first, and not being able to actually see them talk doesn't help, but practice really does make perfect; you get used to it rather fast. ^^
If you don't mind my asking, where're you from?
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You'll be fine:) Just find some sane people, not elitists, who won't mind repeating something for you or typing it if it comes to that. This is not as bad as it may sound, there's actually plenty of nice people in game, just that...not nice people are always louder. Also, never give up - when you hear a person with new accent, it often seems indecipherable at first, and not being able to actually see them talk doesn't help, but practice really does make perfect; you get used to it rather fast. ^^
Well, I don't know how much of that is thanks to ESO, but your English looks very good to me=) Just make sure you don't learn from one of those "lol god gramer iz stupid" people that seem to be populating the chat xDHey all. I have bought ESO mainly because of wanting to improve my English - I knew the quests would have full voice over so I went to the shop and bought the game. I can now tell after nearly 3 months of playing it - It has been by far the most enjoyable way I have ever tried to learn English - I can listen to speakers and see the text on the screen and at the same time enjoy the game and actually take part in this adventure. The side effect is that I have actually become addicted to it, I am nearly veteran level 6 now, I have even successfully tanked one of the veteran dungeons, the Banished Cells. Anyways I wonder if there are others like me who use ESO for educational purpose (too) and do you find it useful? Thanks!
Games are generally a good way to improve your language, so is talking to people. Seeing as ESO combines both, that's pretty awesome. Also, if you find yourself a good group to get on skype/teamspeak/whatever with while running dungeons or something, that's AWESOME practice. After 3 hours in vet Spindle I no longer cared what accent they had and could keep up with their swearing just fine:D
On a side note - no, English is not my first language either, I'm Russian.
Hey thank you for your comment. I was thinking of getting on teamspeak but I was always afraid of not being able to get what someone has to say. It will be like Veteran level for me
If you don't mind my asking, where're you from?
Thanks I may try. I know there are many nice people in the game, I have met many. And no I don't mind you asking I'm Polish, my native language is not even remotely close to English in terms of grammar or sounds which makes it harder but I'm not giving up 0 -
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✭✭English isnt east to learn and yours(as manu Europeans I see) is better than many Americans'.
I was once guilded with a kid from Hong Kong that learned English mostly through world of warcraft(ca 2004, before the playerbase *really* went to hell attitude wise).
The internet is a great language tool Ill say that.0 -
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✭I'm certainly learning a few foreign language words/terms. Will they stick with me long term, no idea but it's cool non the less.0 -
Surinen✭✭✭vocabulary: yes (BUT*), grammar: not for me (i'm tainted by broken grammar since distant years)
*english in this game is of colonial bastardisation ilk . damnable zs are meddling with my brain. fortunately Altmer speak as they should. unfortunately when I compare it with text in the books then my european heart starts to bleed, slowly, as if sorrow is falling through the cracks in my soul!
Edited by Surinen on June 28, 2014 4:48PMMissing Altmer hair colour: black: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/110900/altmer-missing-hair-colour#latest1 -
Singular✭✭✭✭so desu yo ne. eigo wo benkyo ha taihen desukara, geimu wo surunagara ii ne.War, give me war, give me war.1
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✭Is ESO a good language learning tool?
Not judging by some of the 'colourful' language we get here on the forums...rofl
High Elf Sorcerer VR12 - Destro / Resto Staff
I'm a werewolf. If you vamps don't like it.... Bite me !
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Sakiri✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Swearing is usually the first thing one learns.
And your true fluency is marked by which language you drop the bomb in when you drop a brick on your foot.0 -
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I almost never swear in Polish, but I sometimes do in English. I don't know why. On the other hand, the 'r' sound in our most popular swear word makes it much more satisfying than anything I can say in English. I'm not sure why that is either.Swearing is usually the first thing one learns.
And your true fluency is marked by which language you drop the bomb in when you drop a brick on your foot.1 -
Sakiri✭✭✭✭✭
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I almost never swear in Polish, but I sometimes do in English. I don't know why. On the other hand, the 'r' sound in our most popular swear word makes it much more satisfying than anything I can say in English. I'm not sure why that is either.Swearing is usually the first thing one learns.
And your true fluency is marked by which language you drop the bomb in when you drop a brick on your foot.
I swear more often than not in English. Strangely enough, out of what I know in both Spanish and Swedish(I live in Califorrnia) most of it and none of it, respectively, is pronanity.
And the Spanish is mostly because I eventually asked my aunt what that jackhole Mexican kid across the street was yelling at everyone.
White Americans are now a minority in California.
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AngryWolf✭✭✭Geez...NO...this a game and there is a lot of CHEESE in the dialog. You don't want to go around in real life talking like this game. The program Rosetta Stone is the best way, other than cultural immersion to learn. Seriously, use this game to have fun...but don't use it as your main source of learning english.0 -
Sakiri✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Gah, Rosetta Stone is terrible. Blech.
And I don't think anyone here is praising it as a sole language learning tool, but it *will* teach you things that standard courses won't, namely slang and dialect.0 -
Kos✭✭✭Geez...NO...this a game and there is a lot of CHEESE in the dialog. You don't want to go around in real life talking like this game. The program Rosetta Stone is the best way, other than cultural immersion to learn. Seriously, use this game to have fun...but don't use it as your main source of learning english.
Obviously it can't be the sole source, but it makes me listen to many different accents and it has new words which I need to look up. Most importantly I find it enjoyable, I have never fell asleep while questing.0 -
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✭Do they have this game in Russian? Trying to learn it for my fiancé and it's so hard!0 -
Aureli✭✭✭Hey all. I have bought ESO mainly because of wanting to improve my English - I knew the quests would have full voice over so I went to the shop and bought the game. I can now tell after nearly 3 months of playing it - It has been by far the most enjoyable way I have ever tried to learn English - I can listen to speakers and see the text on the screen and at the same time enjoy the game and actually take part in this adventure. The side effect is that I have actually become addicted to it, I am nearly veteran level 6 now, I have even successfully tanked one of the veteran dungeons, the Banished Cells. Anyways I wonder if there are others like me who use ESO for educational purpose (too) and do you find it useful? Thanks!
This reminds me of the time a friend tried learning Italian playing the Assassin's Creed games located in Italy.0 -
Most peoples english is not the yellow from the egg. (I stole that from a friend)
Learning a language that way is good because youre linking fun to learning. Once you have the hang of how english works you only need more vocabulary.
Plus you need to avoid to speak to Khajit to much that @Katarin might be a little bit furry, maybe we should buy her a shaver for christmas this year :PThis one studied her English through the ESO, now she speaks in third person.
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Kos✭✭✭fambaab16_ESO wrote: »Most peoples english is not the yellow from the egg. (I stole that from a friend)
Learning a language that way is good because youre linking fun to learning. Once you have the hang of how english works you only need more vocabulary.
Plus you need to avoid to speak to Khajit to much that @Katarin might be a little bit furry, maybe we should buy her a shaver for christmas this year :PThis one studied her English through the ESO, now she speaks in third person. I like Khajit and I like some names like Walks-On-Water etc. It actually adds to the fun. Edited by Kos on June 29, 2014 8:22AM0
