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Language learning tools
Jul. 16th, 2019 05:23 pmI figured out what I really want for learning languages a short while ago: Duolingo meets Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley/Littlewood/any other town-city-farm building game.
We start out the game (and thus the language) with introductions and pronouns and names and such, in dialogue where you can click the words for translations, just like in Duolingo. We slowly build up vocabulary with things that you're adding to the town or your character's house, with interactions with other characters to find things or buy things or build things, with weather reports and visitors to the town/area/whatever, all sorts of things like that. And very slowly, as you build your character's life, you build your language skills.
I would pay legit money for a game like that.
(Slime Forest Adventure is good, but not quite what I'm thinking of.)
Edit: Not a perfect match either, but The Expression | Amrilato seems a lot closer than drilling vocab by battling slimes. And it's for Esperanto, too! And yuri! I'll probably look into buying it once I finish the Duolingo Esperanto course.Or maybe sooner...
We start out the game (and thus the language) with introductions and pronouns and names and such, in dialogue where you can click the words for translations, just like in Duolingo. We slowly build up vocabulary with things that you're adding to the town or your character's house, with interactions with other characters to find things or buy things or build things, with weather reports and visitors to the town/area/whatever, all sorts of things like that. And very slowly, as you build your character's life, you build your language skills.
I would pay legit money for a game like that.
(Slime Forest Adventure is good, but not quite what I'm thinking of.)
Edit: Not a perfect match either, but The Expression | Amrilato seems a lot closer than drilling vocab by battling slimes. And it's for Esperanto, too! And yuri! I'll probably look into buying it once I finish the Duolingo Esperanto course.
