ahmadmanga's Gaming's Daily #10: How I Learned English Because of Video Games
Weclome to my daily collection of #gaming posts, Today I talk about "Learning" It's funny how the reason I can write so good in English is because I was obsessed with Video games as a child.
Salam (Peace)
Every gamer has a story of how a video game impacted their life... A fact I remembered while reading @naysayer's post mentioned below. I have many of these stories myself. But the most impact on my life with video games was: me learning English.
In Libya, when I was a child (late 90s early 2000s) there weren't releasing Video Games in Arabic (Only in the recent 5 years publishers added this language to their games)... So the video games we had were mostly in English or Japanese.
As a child, I could've done what others my age did... Play games not relying on words at all. And that was surprisingly fun too. But my Aunt was a doctor and she taught me some English words, so when I played with my brother I was like "Why not try to translate the games for us?"
I didn't learn English in a short time, I didn't even learn it seriously... But when I was stuck in a game. I take my Dictionary Book and spend up to few hours translating the words on the screen. (Yup Book. because at early 2000s we didn't have digital translators).
(This is my latest one. I think father bought it in 2005, I still have it)
At first I did that with games that only use few words, Then I tried with RPGs (you have to talk with everyone), and I was really bad. But I thought I was really good translator. And eventually my English become good.
And that's alone tells how they impacted my life.
I'll probably make a cleaner post about my childhood with English & Games one day.
Tell Me If You Want To Read It.
Around The #Gaming Tag
- How Gaming Changes Life! by @naysayer. The Inspiration for this post! Includes many comments from tumbler users abut how their life changed with games, I liked Portal & Journey entries.
- UnAnnounced Games We Can Expect To See In 2018!: @techmojo mentions some games that are expected for 2018 release even though they're not announced yet. Honestly I have no idea but I'll be glad if a new DMC or Fable get announced.
- [REVIEW A CLASSIC SEGA VIDEO GAME] GOLDEN AXE II by @zulfan91: I'm interested with SEGA games after yesterday's post. It seems that Golden Axe series is one of the games in SEGA's Emulator on Steam so I reading this review & enjoyed it.
@zipporah's "Steemit – We Need To Talk." (Not Gaming, But Must Read)
@darth-azrael's "Animaniacs (SNES, Genesis, Game Boy)"
@annasalkhalis's "[Review] Citizens of Earth."
I'll probably make more of the daily posts so tell me if you liked the style or if you think it needs changing.
Other Gaming Posts From @ahmadmanga
| Playstation: My Childhood | Yesterday's post: SEGA Review | PS2: My Teenage Years |
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Great post. Keep em coming!
Thanks ~
Thanks for the mention @ahmadmanga. 🙏🏼 You seem like a rather sweet human. ⭐️
Wish I had something to say on your post, but I don't have anything to add after all these amazing people. I just wish whoever behind @grumpycat become more strict on who to flag.
Though my English is still not that good games definitely helped me improve it.
Haha it was actually fun for some reason and still makes me happy or smile when I think about those days.
It will be great if you can make a 'cleaner' post about childhood games and English.
cheers for including me in this post buddy. voted n resteemd. ;-)
I was, still am a RPG fan. Like you said, I learned English because of it and tons of interesting facts. Games truly are educative and fun if you don't play them all day - than you are an addict (I had days like those, I admit)
I first seriously started to learn English when I had to read the level instructions in The Incredible Machine. At first it was enough to recognize the word ball, to know I need to bring it somewhere, but as the levels got harder I needed clearer instructions, so I learned to read them.
Later I got my vocabulary seriously expanded by playing Magic: The Gathering.
Games are awesome.
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