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Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims

 
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jay-shi



Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour

PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:03 am    Post subject: Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims Reply with quote

Slashdot.org has an interesting post which may be of interest to ESL teachers.

Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/04/1324215&tid=146&tid=10

Original story here...

COMMENTARY: YOU'RE NOT STUDYING, YOU'RE JUST...
http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num1/purushotma/default.html
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency

PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wanted to do that when I bought it. I didn't have all that much time to play it though. Another thing you can do is change most of your software to the target language, download Firefox in Norwegian for example...
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ladyandthetramp



Joined: 21 Nov 2003

PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I learned a few words from The Sims actually by doing this. ��Ȱ��=recycle.

When I lived in Germany, I learned a few German phrases from the game "Commandos." (Un)fortunately, I never needed to use German military phrases since then, so I forgot them all.
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