I have been using video games as a mean of learning German and it works pretty well. I just wanted to share a few titles that work nicely for me.

  • Epistory (typing game) great to get used to writing simple words but the story can only be listen to in English.
  • Knights of honor (a grand strategy game), nice to expand vocabulary and seeing over and over again the same words, can be easily paused to translate stuff
  • the curse of monkey Island (point and click), the vocabulary is much harder here, but the voices and text are really well made.
  • I have not tried it, but I also saw Wonderlang which is a RPG specifically dedicated to language learning.

Does anyone have other recommendations, for German or for other languages?

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    I’m not sure about games specifically made for language learning, but plenty of games have language settings.

    I was looking to brush up on my Japanese and decided to replay Trails from Zero with the language set to Japanese. Its exposition was very complex with a ton of economic and political terms and just overwhelming. So pick something that suits your level if you can.

    As for German, on Steam you can look for games that have German language support with something like this:

    https://store.steampowered.com/search/?supportedlang=german&ndl=1

    Good luck with your learning!

    • bzah@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      6 days ago

      Thanks fir the tip for filtering games on steams, unfortunately it also displays games where the audio is only in English but subtitles are available in German, which is not the best for learning purposes.

      Good luck with your learning too!