people have sent me screenshots from language exchange discord servers where they're noticing a huge uptick in activity, especially the Japanese servers. i see you guys have been working hard 😈 most of the comments i've seen agree with my advice or have cited that this inspired them to learn and i wanna say thank you sm for watching and i'm really happy to see that :) but i specifically want to add something i feel like i may have not talked enough about for those that said this wouldn't work with X language they're learning. for some less common languages, it will obviously be hard to find localization, but games like minecraft (which i showed in the video) and a handful of others have insanely good localization. if you're frustrated with the low number of games that support the language you're learning that's understandable, but expecting Bloons TD to support Latin is crazy lol. look up games that support the language you're learning and see what you like. thank you guys for ur kind words and to my spanish speakers, thank you guys for vouching for my spanish and of course chilean spanish is harder ctm ;)
Immersion does not mean you'll learn a language, the key to learning any new language is a strong enough desire to, or through sheer necessity. I know many people that have either moved to America or another country, and still do not speak English, or primary language, even after a decade.
Playing Animal Crossing in Japanese is a tremendous learning tool. because it actually simulates moving to a place with a foreign language and you would immerse yourself into an environment where you have to pick up the language to function. More emphasis on the reading than speaking, sure, but a valuable tool nonetheless.
Yeah. Due to having different written characters, its better to learn JP using Animal Crossing unlike English where you can brute force it using any MMO Games available. Animal Crossing familiarize you with basic kanji for nouns and verbs that gets used a lot, and if you know the activity, you can guess the tool and items.
Which one would you recommend? Ive played all of them except for Wild world. Do the older games have furigana for the kanji or is that only in New Horizons?
True especially for languages. I feel you cuz I have/had extreme social anxiety all my life, still fucks me over to this day, but I wasted like 5 years studying languages without any human interaction and of course couldn't speak any of them, and in just 6 months with Chinese I can speak proficiently because I took a Chinese module at uni that forced me to speak to people. Something like VR chat is scary at first but once you expose yourself to it it's easy to go on there and speak to people, and it can improve your anxiety in general as well as language skills
Dude! You have no idea how linguistically sounds your theories are. You said you need a large amount of varied content, true. It’s best to work with native speakers, true. Developing a foundation before attempting conversations, true. Set yourself up for success. Learn your target language during a hobby you already intended to do, true. I am very impressed with this video.
That "Why You Should Trust Me" bit was such an insane power move. I'm definitely gonna use this technique to brush up on my Romanian. Also, I do appreciate the fact that when you were speaking Spanish, you provided both English and Spanish subtitles to compare the words. I think more people should do that.
I learned Spanish through playing videogames. The story behind that: my Wii was set up in Spanish, and my super young pea brain didnt know how to change the settings and i thought it was permanent. So i was stuck with playing everything in Spanish for like 2 years, with a few exceptions like Mario Party 8 that were only in English. I remember Mario Galaxy being that "Oh Dios Mio" moment where everything came together.
That's amazing, It's weird seeing people learning Spanish that kind of way, are you like kinda fluent when reading or talking? Es interesante oir este tipo de historias
I learned English like this 😂 Every PS2, N64, GBA etc. game was in English as well as every kids show I liked, so now I'm fluent (There was a SAP button on the TV remote, I just hated SpongeBob's Spanish voice)
Can relate, I learned English by playing with Yugioh Cards. It's just that for whatever reason finding cards on Spanish was really hard, nobody was selling them, and the newest cards were printed on English only. started with a dic, pen and paper.
@@AzumarillConGafasBv My accent is definitely not fluent, sadly. However I can read and (attempt to) talk in Spanish without issue, at the same pace as English. La tecnología es increíble.
@weebsquit347 Asi es, la tecnologia es maravillosa, anyways dont feel so worried about accents or stuff like that, a more "neutral" accent is more likeable to people than trying to stick with one, if you can obtain it normally is good but dont force it!
as a russian myself i used to play games in english because russian text doesnt support 90% of the fonts and now to this day everything in my pc is in english Thanks hyde, aiodensghost and JingleJangleJam!
@@ifdesy I'm proud of you. I'm half Russian and none of my Russian relatives speak English well even though they had it in school. Immersion is the most important thing for learning a new language it seems
I used Japanese video games to learn a lot of my Japanese, especially my reading skills. There's s lot of Japanese games that don't get localized and I had to learn Japanese to play them properly.
I wanna try this now! I’ve been changing the language of games I play into Japanese like Minecraft to teach me to read faster but i never thought of trying out non localized games. I know there are a lot of visual novels that usually don’t get translated so I have to try that out
How do you do when there are kanji in-game and you don't know how to pronounce it? You can guess the meaning with the context but not how it's pronounced
@@Nico-fu1zo That's not entirely true. Most kanji have standardized pronunciation through the onyomi and kunyomi and with enough practice you can learn to recognize when to use each. If I truly don't know because there's a rare kanji used, some games have furigana for all the kanji so I don't have to guess at all, or I can just quickly look up the kanji in an app that can read text with the phone camera. I will say that I spent years studying Japanese before I could just load up a visual novel and read through it. I had to start easy with kids books and manga and work up to more difficult things.
Same, I was a dumb kid pirating the gba games. I didn’t even figured put that I just needed to get the roms in spanish, so I had to learn the moves and navigate the game in English. Doing that alone in my early tens made me skip years of english classes later on.
@@matilozano96as i kid i bought an english cartridge not knowing it was in English because i was accustomed to all games having a languages selection screen. So i had to play pokemon on English.
Brooo this is exactly how I learned German, French and Italian when I was younger! Back in the day I’d change my entire runescape clients language so I can be fully emerged. And try to have conversations with anyone willing to talk to me, which helped me learn to read and write faster!
@@warlockpaladin2261 It is, but the bigger issue is that the way that text is formatted and displayed by most computers, especially phones, as they don't really know what to do with themselves when they encounter text with conflicting directions
@@chaoskiller6084its less of a problem with arabic and more of the linguistic imperialism of the latin alphabet that dominates the digital world, even chinese or other logographic characters cant format correctly, take japanese for example, originally it was written vertically and right to left, but now its mixxed with online slowly becomeing left to right, so its super confusing same with chinese, no one is building a new pc kernal so they just use the english one, same with coding languages
@@NeostormXLMAX Yeah that's why I said that the problem arises from computers not knowing how to handle text of conflicting directions, rather than specifically the Arabic script. Most UIs are designed using left-to-right languages, so they fall apart when you use a language that isn't left-to-right, or has otherwise "unconventional" properties compared to European languages
you dont have any idea how much you helped me i am not exaggerating i was surrounded by people that had no common interest with me but now i feel i have found my people and set free thank you
Literally the best language learning method that happens to also be EXTREMELY FUN!!! I learned so much German by first as a beginner using duolingo for the basics and learning loads of vocabulary and also watching German gaming TH-camrs who either speak to the audience (easier because they explain their thoughts and feeling to you the viewer) or are playing with their friends (harder to understand cuz it’s faster) also I switched my console to German. I played solo story games in German to test my understanding* of the instructions I’m given (also to help me stay engaged) and I pushed myself to go find a server on my favourite survival game, the server was a German server and that is where I was lucky enough to meet my now best friends. They have helped me practice so much, we like similar games so we played so many together and the vocabulary you learn in games is HUGE! Directions and materials and crafting and building creative ideas how to express your ideas on what to change, colours and so so much more! Minecraft was incredible for learning a language honestly. Play it with your target language friends and watch your speaking skills sky rocket (if you are comfortable speaking around them) it took me so long to get over my fear of saying something wrong or sounding dumb but my friend was so supportive and helped me so much. Cannot recommend gaming enough for language learning.
@Ywthg5w6gwvyw to avoid chaos I'd avoid VR Chat and Rec Room. But hey some like that for just meeting new people. I find every multiplayer game is good aside from FPS games (CoD for example). *Survival games are perfect* nice slow place but not too boring and it can get tough. They require teamwork to get further faster and to craft and build things. Minecraft to begin with is best (with a friend). Grounded is also an awesome game for teamwork and communication. Loved playing that with my German friend, building coll bases and battling bugs.
Many people learn English through video games, and I'm glad finally there is a video for those who never knew what it's like, learning curse words before you could count, in CS:GO. 😊
Yeah, when i heard the part about "go play stuff and meet some who talk the language" and then i realised that yeah most of my english learning was at like 8y+ playing stuff, and in 4 years i got a perfect score of english in school and ever since done the same grade. and it just makes sense that any other language i could learn that way too but i mostly just went duolingo and didn't bother thinking of a conversation anywhere else since duo is more like a "remember these words for later" and it takes a long time to get ahead after doing sentences with the same maybe 9 words every course.
cyberpunk 2077 has a ridiculous amount of supported languages AND full audio support for most of them too. it's all i do to study french lmao. can't recommend it enough--you pick up so much slang and words for random everyday items, and i can't think of a more immersive game
since there is subtitles and audio, do you think (for in my case japanese) i should play with audio on japanese and english subtitles? switch them up or maybe both
I would love to do this! I know for me, I'm learning Chinese (specifically Mandarin). I use Duolingo and HelloChinese. I like Duolingo to practice the Hanzi characters mostly, and just repeating outloud the characters to practice my pronunciation. On Duolingo, I'm kind of just pushing through to just get the extra vocabulary, but HelloChinese is WAY better than Duolingo. HelloChinese actually teaches grammar rules, and even talks about context rules for when to use/not use certain things, as well as discussing the differences compared to English. HelloChinese even has a TON of videos and stories of native speakers talking, and you have to type out (in Chinese) what they are saying. There are a lot of words in Chinese that have multiple symbols that each mean something different. It's a slow process though, and more tedious than just learning by playing games. :D
I also am learning Chinese!! Pleco is such a good app too, it's just a Chinese dictionary but I use it whenever I don't understand a certain character. Ninchanese(?) Is also helpful!!!
2 for 2 on banger videos so far dude. was totally shocked to see u were the same guy who made calc's plan lol. clearly u will be very successful in any number of content genres. can't wait to see more
@@Zickziinah, he does have a bit of an accent, but nothing really related to sounding "too american", tho his accent only has to do with syllable stress where it shouldn't be... so he's doing fine 🫡
As a native English speaker, this is what I was looking for. Thanks to all the native Spanish speakers who chimed in to let us know that he's not speaking some clunky-ass Spanish with a thick accent.
I'm not a native English speaker and I learned English in early age by actually playing Legend of Zelda and I was stuck, didn't know what to do, and then I started to check walkthroughs, read every npc dialogues, which were obviously in English. At that time I was a kid who only learned a little bit of English once a week at school, so I translated those things by myself so I could progress in the game. Eventually I finished most zelda games while also learning English at it. Though I must say my English is getting better when as I started playing an MMORPG game (toram online) and joined an active English guild. Having daily conversation with other English speaker is very helpful for me to get used to this language, even though it's just in written form. As of now I'm trying to improve my hearing comprehension by watching and listening to English videos in TH-cam, since I think more or less my written English is sufficient to hold a conversation. But... Speaking though.... I haven't gotten a chance yet to actually practice it, but I hope I can in the future
Let me tell you as someone who learned English as a second language at a very young age, your English is leagues better than many native speakers, at least in the U.S. You may have an accent but if your spoken English is as good as it is written, you're already in very good shape.
My native language is Russian, and now I understand English pretty well. Basically, I just started watching TH-cam videos on English and comparing some texts between ru and eng (with basic knowledge ofc). At first, I watched videos with ru subtitles, then I watched them with en subtitles and now I can pretty much understand it by ear. I still have some room to improve: My vocab feels 'limited' so it's a bit hard to express my thoughts in English (although MUCH better than 1-2 years ago), I still sometimes just can't understand some phrases, I can't talk out loud (I didn't practice it at all) and it's much easier for me to 'get lost' in the text than in Russian. But I really feel like really got better over past 2 years. I also think about becoming a translator in the future, since I really into this topic.
Yeah, that's basically how I learnt to speak english too. I studied it outside of school with a tutor many years ago, so I have good grammar. But I would never be able to speak fluently without the internet. I became an international school student about a year ago, and my English is better than most people who were at the school since early childhood. Привет из Таиланда)
Dude your English is really good. Honestly, if someone put this in front of me and asked me "Native speaker: yes or no?" I *might* be able to get it *maybe* by how you take less of the lazy shortcuts that native speakers do lol. I think you have a bright future in translation!
Lol same. Like, 90% of the media i consume now is in english, although i am a spanish speaker natively. I remember the days of pirated PS2 games that weren't translated. That was our trial by fire back then xD
Your advice is immensely helpful. I have tried many of these myself and are 100% the best way to learn any language. Immersing yourself in your target language works every time, and doing it while playing games or watching shows are some the greatest ways.
I recently coined the term "virtual skills training", trying to turn hobbies into transferable life skills. This is a PERFECT example of using gaming/shows to LEARN a language! For me, other personal examples include playing F1 racing for focus and reaction training, Dragonball Z Fighterz for focus, reaction time and aggression outlet, Age of Empires for resource management skills that are transferable to running a business/startup. So many other ways to enhance your life by being more intentional with activities we already love. A good CONTENT DIET is underrated!
The funny thing is because a lot of games didn't have clean translations to my native language, I had to learn English in order to play games like Fallout New Vegas and other text heavy games, ended up learning more through these games than through school.
Was me I remember picking persona 5 as my first completely untranslated game(that i would truly read) It was a hell of experience,even though it was easy,it was the first big step in truly understanding English
Holy crap this video captures what I’ve been trying to tell people! In 2017 my Chinese family move to the US, apart from my relative that were already here there was no Chinese at all in my area. I struggled for a while until everyone started to play Fortnite, I started playing too. I had more motivations and the words used were typically simpler than the stuff taught in school. Eventually I made friends and was able to talk to them. Then quarantine came and I basically played games everyday for an entire year, and when I come out of it I pretty much became “normal” and speak just as well as all my other classmates, even becoming the stereotypical Chinese kid. Every time people would ask how I learned English they never took me seriously when I tell them video games.
@@FranciscoGanancio hmmm maybe try to watch more Chinese content, I used to watch a bunch of yt videos just to my interest (gameplays, automotive stuff for me). However, I think although it is easier to learn this way vs reading books and stuff, you do still have to make sacrifices to actually learn a language. But don’t give up and I wish you the best of luck!
Amigo tu español es el mejor que he escuchado de alguien de Estados Unidos en mucho tiempo, de verdad muchas gracias por este video :3 (I also learned most of the English vocabulary in discord servers lol)
Unironically, this is how I learned English as my second language; my native language is Greek. When it came to English though, I was initially a slow learner and properly pronouncing words was difficult because a lot of the sounds English has aren't in Greek. Having to speak while gaming, and in a second language too, kind of flipped my scenario upside down. I had started learning faster and I actually developed an accent that saved me throughout my English classes in school. (I used to impress my teachers during speaking exercises lol) Guys he's right, if you wanna learn a new language and are a gamer, try finding people who speak it. Helps out a ton, it's basically free speaking practice. FYI: keep in mind that, becoming fluent in English, took 4-5 years for me. This may vary for other languages, but it's important to realize you can't just learn a language overnight. It takes effort and patience!
Since there are a lot of games already made in Japanese, you have a ton of free immersion in that. People act like Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn but I just read manga and played games and it just got easier and easier. Obviously I'm simplifying it a bit here but that's most of it. Another tip I can give you, is to play Sims in your target language if you can. It is the pinnacle of everyday life language in gaming. Sure you won't get much listening practice from it but IMO reading more is better.
Thanks for the tip. I want to get good at French so I think switching my sims game to French would help me also bc I already have a groundwork in the language. :)
@raidev_ that's where Google lens comes in my dude. Even then, that's the point. I learned kanji by coming across a new word, looking it up (Google lens helps with this) and I put it into my Anki deck and just learn the word with the kanji. You don't have to waste time studying the meanings of kanji because you will figure it out after you learn a few words with it.
@@raidev_personally in my experience for learning Japanese (I lived most of my life in Pakistan and had to move there for studies) I basically learnt kanji, katakana and hiragana alphabets first from a basic textbook and learnt the speaking part by immersing myself into the language (I had no choice) and that’s the part that helped me the most. I would say the listening part of Japanese is the hardest part for learning the language because different people there have different dialects and speed of speaking so what I would recommend to do with that is watch as many shows and videos as you can so you can improve listening as much as possible. Like the original comment said games do indeed help in learning the language but mainly the reading and writing part.I really struggled with the listening part but eventually if you do put time into it you’ll get it 👍
How did you deal with unknown words? I just completed the 2.3k core deck and have been playing some rpg maker games and have attempted reading manga, but manga typically have too much kanji that I don't know. Did you use a dictionary/translater like yomitan?
As a German, I got most of my knowledge for English just by playing games and watching TH-cam content. That's how I noticed that my English was more advanced compared to other's in my class. Gaming was a huge blessing for me in that regard 🙏
i'm english and wasn't really given an opportunity to learn german as a child and they certainly never taught it at school, so last year i started playing games with german dub or subtitles and listening to german gaming channels speaking... you're right, it works :D
I learned the cyrillic alphabet to be able to read what russians said in chat back in the csgo days. I can read russian now but I lack the vocabulary to know what it all means lol.
@@OpposingFork runs on most laptops from the last 10 years, also if it doesnt run, play CS:S still enough players and it runs on most older hardware of the last 20 years. If you system is still to weak, play CS, run on EVERYTHING and there are still enough player around.
Thank you for giving specific resources and examples, rather than the more general advice that most videos give. It makes it a lot easier to get up and pursue it.
muy buen español! i get your point here because i was immersed to english since i was a kid without even noticing it, from shows, games and other stuff. im looking forward to learning other languages too so i'll take your advice. great video
This is incredibly well done, especially for it being technically your first video! You have a definite future in content creation. I subscribed. Thank you for the video!
This is unfortunate, the language I want to learn has speakers with such a high proficiency in English that they just default to English while gaming 💀 edit: for those wondering it's danish
@@coolbrotherf127 yeah for some reason all my german friends are all extremely fluent and.. i just thought they were from america (i’m fluent in german cus i live there XDD)
I already speak Russian sufficiently, but I could definitely use consistent practice since I live in the US and don't know some of the more subtle idioms. It definitely helps that a huge chunk of my family speak Russian natively.
Я, как носитель русского, используя школьную базу, сначала с субтитрами, постепенно учился понимать английский только с помощью просмотра ютуба и сериалов. Сейчас я легко могу понимать английский близко к носителю
True, whenever im learning a language, i change my main games to that language since then i have to read the UI and understand the characters and so on or i end up lost, try adjusting a games video, keybind and audio settings and youll soon realize how tough a task it is
I really got into learning Spanish when I saw Encanto about 3 years ago, so now my phone, lots of the music in my playlist, and many video games that I play are all in Spanish. It is really interesting to be able to see how different things get translated, especially when I already memorized the game in English. The most interesting part is when things get mistranslated and I get to determine the correct translation. I once found a metal called a "planchar", and realized that it was accidentally translated to iron (v.) because it ended in -ar.
Alot of Roblox players basically suck at spelling (and sometimes grammar) so always remember to check the technical side of the language after experiencing the practical side with people.
personally i dont think the phone language will help with japanese, this is because you can understand what it means sure but you wont know how to pronounce it, conversing with natives through gaming might be the more efficient method in the case of chinese and japanese imo
@@Rainbonyte i appreciate hearing that. I really just wanted to change it so it's on my mind more often and to help with reading. I already have a decent level of pronunciation and speaking practice so getting the characters in front of me more often is pretty helpful. Also one thing I didn't think of is that it changed my gps into Japanese so I get some more listening practice there as well
Just make sure you remember the steps to change it back. I put my Netflix into Polish, hoping it would suggest stuff for me that was in Polish, and when I wanted to go back to watching things in English, it took some time to work my way through the settings to the right place to change it back. Lol.
This is actually really helpful. Here is Canada we have a French Immersion program. Which is pretty much school in French. We learn French from Kindergarten to Grade 12. I never took it that seriously and was never really into studying so I struggled my way through it. Technically my French should be on the level of a full fledged Québec speaker but it's a lot closer to middle school level maybe. I've always regretted not focusing enough on French in my elementary/high school days and have been wanting to take some classes to improve it. You gave really good advice and I think I might try these things to learn proper French and get to the level I'm supposed to be.
In America, we have something similar but with Spanish! Also, what is the difference between Canadian French and European French? I'm learning the latter, but are there different rules between the two of them or is it just a location thing? There is a fantastic teacher on TH-cam called ThePerfectFrenchWithDylan. There are other teachers I use as well, but Dylan provides a lot of examples, resources, and has numerous videos.
Tbh I completely agree with you, because I have learnt English the same way, playing games and watching TH-cam and talking with my own sister, now I'm extremely fluent like native speakers. Gaming can really be a huge language teacher better than school, just one tip try to get a language partner it makes learning so much easier
@@saeedbarari2207 yeah but school only helped me get my reading and writing to be good, for practical speaking and understanding gaming and youtube was the way to go
@@saeedbarari2207 In some cases, you would be right. However, I learnt almost all of my English from video games, youtube, movies, books, etc. School has not taught me a significant amount, honestly. But I do agree that it can make a difference for some people, such as my friends, who didn't learn English from the Internet like I did.
@@theoldhogchannel > ...*almost* all of my English... who taught you grammars and basics and sentence structure? THAT's the part where textbooks and classes help. after that, of course its up to you to upgrade your skills with immersion instead of reading through a dictionary of thousands of words.
@@saeedbarari2207 I was already fluent in English before I received any lessons in middle school. There's a bit of a misconception with your view on grammar, grammar isn't taught to natives, they learn it through comprehensible input. When they get taught these concepts like sentence structures, it's more like they're putting labels on stuff they already instinctively know through using the language. Many natives don't even really understand the rules of the language they're speaking of writing, they just "know" what is correct based on experience and that is the same for many of us that have learned English as our second language. When I got taught english across high school and middle school I never looked at any of the textbooks, nor did I have to. Textbooks are helpful in putting the context of the language into words and helping you tackle grammar in a more logical way, but it's not necessary when learning a language.
Honestly it didn't help me at all, because looking up every single word, especially kanji you don't know is tiring and you will stop doing it. However you might gain something from seeing them often enough. For recognizing kanjis it's great I think, but incredibly tedious too. Btw this gaming with Japanese won't work with online games anyway if you live outside of asia and you want a ping of less than 300
thank you for this video, it gives me alot of confidence and motivation to just.. learn and honestly its the best feeling ever so thanks alot for making this video!!
Dude, I really like your style. Just like, your editing, your casual tone, the way the script flows. Really dig it. You deserve a much bigger sub count. Would love to see more videos, about anything really. I'd watch even if it wasn't a topic I usually seek out.
GREAT VIDEO!!!! I'll be sure to try some of the links when I have more time! I was so happy to see the gang on the video too :') Thanks for the comprehensive break down of how you did it! I'm anxious for the next vid!
I work at a paint store (selling house paint) and 60% of painters speak Spanish. It's fun learning Spanish from them (and my Spanish speaking coworker) and watching them learn English.
You earned a follow from me. And so long as you keep up with language learning through gaming you will keep me as a follower. This is a friendly threat.
Ok before I continue watching the video... I was born and grew up bilingual, as my household spoke both English and Spanish as Puerto Ricans from the island (which is different from PRs from the states, slightly different upbringing.) I want to start out by saying, while I can tell by how you spoke Spanish that you'd be a tourist... I do want to say, that was really really good, SOME OF THE BEST I've heard spoken from a learner, and I've heard some pretty good spanish from some Americans who put effort into pronunciation. So yeah, that was really really good Spanish. No exaggeration, and no joke either. Bravo friend! That's it, that's all, just wanted to compliment your Spanish. Resuming Video and subscribing...
By far this sounds amazing, and it’s what I’d want to do with the languages, but hell is that scary to think to do. Talk to strangers. Even in my normal languages
honestly if you don’t like talking to strangers the best way to practice speaking is through an online tutor. italki is a good resource but there are multiple online language tutoring services that aren’t insanely expensive. to me at least it feels better to speak with someone who is planning on correcting and teaching you vs some rando who didn’t really sign up to be your tutor lol
I played so many cooperative fighting games, I picked up "Vamos a la puerto de enimgos" and a bunch of other phrases and sentences, its even better considering I normally get grouped with spanish people when I play at awkward times in the afternoon
I've been learning French by playing games and watching Netflix. My games are all single player, I didn't even consider multiplayer. Thanks for the reddit links, there's lots here that I can add to my studying!
Holy fuck, your Spanish is so damn good and clear, I'm Hispanic, I learned English by playing video games, reading comments on social media, listening podcasts, reading books and of course movies and music, school taught me the basics, from there, the rest of things I mentioned taught me the rest, I put my English to the test everyday too, I work as a delivery driver so I get to talk with people often, what helped me the most was my insatiable desire to learn the language as i knew it would open many doors, thanks to all that, I am now a proud bilingual, helping not only my family and friends but also my community, congrats man, I'm glad you made a video about this.
3:58 I think more people are trying to learn English, because - while it isn't the most spoken language - it is the most widely spoken language. While, let's say, 30% (made this number up. I know Chinese is the most spoken language, but English isn't far behind *I also acknowledge that some sources say it's English THEN Chinese) more total people speak Chinese, they are concentrated in one country. The incrementally smaller amount of people speak English, but they are dispersed widely.
I'll be damned, for what little Spanish you spoke throughout the video, yours is on par with most native Spanish speakers, if not better. Great work! It's also worth mentioning that learning a language is not about the destination, but about the journey. Once you look back and realize how far you've come, the feeling of satisfaction is unmatched.
Another tip, as painful as it may be, not only change your phone language into your target language, but also turn on Voice Over. It really helped me as I could immideately hear the pronunciation for words I didn't know.
you're so right about this. the best way to learn a language is to combine it with something you enjoy, whether it be gaming, sports, cooking, listening to music, whatever. it will start to feel less like a chore and will start to become second nature and a lot more natural. talking to ppl online/in a game/in real life is also such a bonus because you can immerse yourself in how people naturally speak (not like in the textbook) and adapt that within your own vocabulary and speaking so you sound more like a native
Around 20 years with text-heavy games is what you need to learn the language by gaming. There are lots of games that are in a foreign language (usually English) that don't require even a bit of knowledge on it: arena shooters, shmups, platformers and other general action games where the story is merely an excuse and you can learn mechanics by heart without in-game tutorials or reading an instruction manual. Strategy games, especially grand strategy games, economic strategy games (the more complex the better) and story-heavy computer RPGs are genres where you gotta learn the language either to comprehend gameplay mechanics explained throroughly in the manual or to follow the story.
@@nox5555 This is why I specifically didn't mention multiplayer games. My brother played Tibia for quite some time and the vocabulary included lots of game-specific abbreviations, slang, and of course profanities and slurs, though the latter were very limited, because offending someone in a MMORPG is a very *bad* idea. On top of that, conversations between players are chaotic. Either way, I meant single-player games with well-written lore and dialogue.
Im german and with 6 my mom didn’t know how to switch my Minecraft from English to german and that gave me a major headstart compared to my other classmates for example. i literally taught myself English through Minecraft, or well, Minecraft sparked the passion of wanting to learn a language. So, this works pretty good 👍
As a south american myself I gotta say your spanish is on point man, props to learning spanish and sharing your methodology, I'll definetely try it to learn Italian.
With english and most other languages, sure, but not gonna work with asian languages. I mean i literally learned English solely from vidya and chatting with people on the internet, all to the point of forming (i hope) coherent sentences and nowadays expressing my opinions(nobody fucking cares about) on things. I played through and somehow managed to finish many untranslated japanese games(mostly psp and ps2 titles), but i still struggle with memorizing 'kanas. Sure, i got some vocab from games, visual novels, anime, but that didn't teach me rarely used words and everyday/real-life stuff that's rarely used in media, i got those from watching Japanese podcasts, and streamers(vtubers or otherwise), but at the end of the day i don't consider language "learned" if i'm not even capable of forming coherent sentences in it and reading the text. So yeah, you can learn languages by gaming, but you can't learn ANY language by just gaming.
... I don't think there are many Basque video games! And I'm Basque myself just not fluent because my family speaks Castellano.. If anyone knows any, lmk!
Honestly I've done this exact method myself for Swedish before this video came out, though I still struggle a bit when forming sentences on the fly when speaking, but reading and writing have been pretty good for me. It really does help switching the language of devices, shows, and apps to your target language to learn it!
OP is lit with this vid, I knew I could increase my language learning experience with gaming but I didn't know that I could just straight up learn a language wiht gaming, and by using what is effectively the same strategy as before. super cool 10/10 guide.
I’m not gonna lie this video was amazing. Not only was it super helpful and informational but it was also like not boring to watch and actually entertaining
I learned the meaning of the intro to gundam because I watched with Spanish subtitles but with Japanese audio. I took spanish for 5 years in school but also basically was over instructed in rigid formalities, but that time helped me begin my steps into Japanese. I decided recently to start picking up another language, if not more. I game a lot but also I want the ability to communicate with and across cultures.
people have sent me screenshots from language exchange discord servers where they're noticing a huge uptick in activity, especially the Japanese servers. i see you guys have been working hard 😈
most of the comments i've seen agree with my advice or have cited that this inspired them to learn and i wanna say thank you sm for watching and i'm really happy to see that :) but i specifically want to add something i feel like i may have not talked enough about for those that said this wouldn't work with X language they're learning. for some less common languages, it will obviously be hard to find localization, but games like minecraft (which i showed in the video) and a handful of others have insanely good localization. if you're frustrated with the low number of games that support the language you're learning that's understandable, but expecting Bloons TD to support Latin is crazy lol. look up games that support the language you're learning and see what you like.
thank you guys for ur kind words and to my spanish speakers, thank you guys for vouching for my spanish and of course chilean spanish is harder ctm ;)
Immersion does not mean you'll learn a language, the key to learning any new language is a strong enough desire to, or through sheer necessity.
I know many people that have either moved to America or another country, and still do not speak English, or primary language, even after a decade.
日本人として、これは本当にかっこいいすぎて思います!
Aw shucks, I was looking forward to learning how to say monkey bucanner in Latin...
I learnt English by playing Roblox.
This happened to me... On the opposite way
Yeah, I learnt english because of TH-cam 💀
"Books are not for me."
"I used to work in Library"
just because you know how to find a book, doesn't mean your willing to open the cover...
Daim, by that logic, cashers at Walmart probably have PhDs in finance.
@@petkofuchalski9809Develop a sense of humor
@@pureevil9496 He says to the guy making a, perhaps antagonistic and inflammatory, joke.
@@ckwi2245when the writing is that fire 🗣️🔥
Playing Animal Crossing in Japanese is a tremendous learning tool. because it actually simulates moving to a place with a foreign language and you would immerse yourself into an environment where you have to pick up the language to function. More emphasis on the reading than speaking, sure, but a valuable tool nonetheless.
I'll try since I am learning Japanese in college
(Funny how most game I play are boomer shooter)
Yeah.
Due to having different written characters, its better to learn JP using Animal Crossing unlike English where you can brute force it using any MMO Games available.
Animal Crossing familiarize you with basic kanji for nouns and verbs that gets used a lot, and if you know the activity, you can guess the tool and items.
imo ur better off learning with visual novels, you can use things like textractor to help you learn on untranslated vns
Wario, you are a bloody genius. Thank you so much.
Which one would you recommend? Ive played all of them except for Wild world. Do the older games have furigana for the kanji or is that only in New Horizons?
im getting the feeling that the trick to learning fucking everything is simply not having debilitating anxiety/social anxiety
I agree
True especially for languages. I feel you cuz I have/had extreme social anxiety all my life, still fucks me over to this day, but I wasted like 5 years studying languages without any human interaction and of course couldn't speak any of them, and in just 6 months with Chinese I can speak proficiently because I took a Chinese module at uni that forced me to speak to people.
Something like VR chat is scary at first but once you expose yourself to it it's easy to go on there and speak to people, and it can improve your anxiety in general as well as language skills
:(
thats how it is for 70% of knowledge out there. that if ur smart
so so damn true, so the first thing we should learn is how to socialize I guess
Dude! You have no idea how linguistically sounds your theories are. You said you need a large amount of varied content, true. It’s best to work with native speakers, true. Developing a foundation before attempting conversations, true. Set yourself up for success. Learn your target language during a hobby you already intended to do, true. I am very impressed with this video.
That "Why You Should Trust Me" bit was such an insane power move. I'm definitely gonna use this technique to brush up on my Romanian. Also, I do appreciate the fact that when you were speaking Spanish, you provided both English and Spanish subtitles to compare the words. I think more people should do that.
I learned Spanish through playing videogames. The story behind that: my Wii was set up in Spanish, and my super young pea brain didnt know how to change the settings and i thought it was permanent. So i was stuck with playing everything in Spanish for like 2 years, with a few exceptions like Mario Party 8 that were only in English.
I remember Mario Galaxy being that "Oh Dios Mio" moment where everything came together.
That's amazing, It's weird seeing people learning Spanish that kind of way, are you like kinda fluent when reading or talking?
Es interesante oir este tipo de historias
I learned English like this 😂
Every PS2, N64, GBA etc. game was in English as well as every kids show I liked, so now I'm fluent
(There was a SAP button on the TV remote, I just hated SpongeBob's Spanish voice)
Can relate, I learned English by playing with Yugioh Cards. It's just that for whatever reason finding cards on Spanish was really hard, nobody was selling them, and the newest cards were printed on English only. started with a dic, pen and paper.
@@AzumarillConGafasBv My accent is definitely not fluent, sadly. However I can read and (attempt to) talk in Spanish without issue, at the same pace as English. La tecnología es increíble.
@weebsquit347 Asi es, la tecnologia es maravillosa, anyways dont feel so worried about accents or stuff like that, a more "neutral" accent is more likeable to people than trying to stick with one, if you can obtain it normally is good but dont force it!
If you'll download any competitive online shooter you will learn all slur words that ever existed and master the art of "Suka blyat"
davai
Да
as a russian myself i used to play games in english because russian text doesnt support 90% of the fonts and now to this day everything in my pc is in english
Thanks hyde, aiodensghost and JingleJangleJam!
@@ifdesy I'm proud of you. I'm half Russian and none of my Russian relatives speak English well even though they had it in school. Immersion is the most important thing for learning a new language it seems
I like to download CS 2 from time to time just to taught gringos the art of the "Vai pra puta que te pariu, arrombado do cacete"
I used Japanese video games to learn a lot of my Japanese, especially my reading skills. There's s lot of Japanese games that don't get localized and I had to learn Japanese to play them properly.
I wanna try this now! I’ve been changing the language of games I play into Japanese like Minecraft to teach me to read faster but i never thought of trying out non localized games. I know there are a lot of visual novels that usually don’t get translated so I have to try that out
How do you do when there are kanji in-game and you don't know how to pronounce it? You can guess the meaning with the context but not how it's pronounced
@@Nico-fu1zo That's not entirely true. Most kanji have standardized pronunciation through the onyomi and kunyomi and with enough practice you can learn to recognize when to use each. If I truly don't know because there's a rare kanji used, some games have furigana for all the kanji so I don't have to guess at all, or I can just quickly look up the kanji in an app that can read text with the phone camera. I will say that I spent years studying Japanese before I could just load up a visual novel and read through it. I had to start easy with kids books and manga and work up to more difficult things.
@@Nico-fu1zo i use a furigana texture pack :D
Bruh you aint playing muramasa in english it is like a huge waste
Funny story, as a kid Pokemon improved my vocabulary way more than school did
Same, I was a dumb kid pirating the gba games. I didn’t even figured put that I just needed to get the roms in spanish, so I had to learn the moves and navigate the game in English.
Doing that alone in my early tens made me skip years of english classes later on.
Same here m8
Same bruh😭
@@matilozano96as i kid i bought an english cartridge not knowing it was in English because i was accustomed to all games having a languages selection screen. So i had to play pokemon on English.
Brooo this is exactly how I learned German, French and Italian when I was younger!
Back in the day I’d change my entire runescape clients language so I can be fully emerged. And try to have conversations with anyone willing to talk to me, which helped me learn to read and write faster!
Okay as native Spanish speaking I can confirm he speaks Spanish really well
As an idiot who's ignorant in Spanish, I'll take your word for it.
@wormfood83 🤣🤣🤣
@@Imanspy-q8y Lo mismo pensaba, tiene muy buena pronunciación
i agree.
Se nota que no es su primer lenguaje pero lo habla muy bien.
thats how i learned english
immerison by media consumption
same tho
Same!!
same!
@@goofypkmn yeah ive seen this a lot, but to be honest, it's much easier to do with english than any other langauge
I wish arabic didnt mess up the ui of every digital service known to man
Loool arabic is hard 🤣
It's that whole "right-to-left" thing, isn't it?
@@warlockpaladin2261 It is, but the bigger issue is that the way that text is formatted and displayed by most computers, especially phones, as they don't really know what to do with themselves when they encounter text with conflicting directions
@@chaoskiller6084its less of a problem with arabic and more of the linguistic imperialism of the latin alphabet that dominates the digital world, even chinese or other logographic characters cant format correctly, take japanese for example, originally it was written vertically and right to left, but now its mixxed with online slowly becomeing left to right, so its super confusing same with chinese, no one is building a new pc kernal so they just use the english one, same with coding languages
@@NeostormXLMAX Yeah that's why I said that the problem arises from computers not knowing how to handle text of conflicting directions, rather than specifically the Arabic script. Most UIs are designed using left-to-right languages, so they fall apart when you use a language that isn't left-to-right, or has otherwise "unconventional" properties compared to European languages
you dont have any idea how much you helped me
i am not exaggerating i was surrounded by people that had no common interest with me
but now i feel i have found my people and set free
thank you
Literally the best language learning method that happens to also be EXTREMELY FUN!!!
I learned so much German by first as a beginner using duolingo for the basics and learning loads of vocabulary and also watching German gaming TH-camrs who either speak to the audience (easier because they explain their thoughts and feeling to you the viewer) or are playing with their friends (harder to understand cuz it’s faster) also I switched my console to German. I played solo story games in German to test my understanding* of the instructions I’m given (also to help me stay engaged) and I pushed myself to go find a server on my favourite survival game, the server was a German server and that is where I was lucky enough to meet my now best friends. They have helped me practice so much, we like similar games so we played so many together and the vocabulary you learn in games is HUGE!
Directions and materials and crafting and building creative ideas how to express your ideas on what to change, colours and so so much more! Minecraft was incredible for learning a language honestly. Play it with your target language friends and watch your speaking skills sky rocket (if you are comfortable speaking around them) it took me so long to get over my fear of saying something wrong or sounding dumb but my friend was so supportive and helped me so much. Cannot recommend gaming enough for language learning.
What are good games to learn languages like for example games with voice chat so that you can speak the language you want to learn
@Ywthg5w6gwvyw to avoid chaos I'd avoid VR Chat and Rec Room. But hey some like that for just meeting new people.
I find every multiplayer game is good aside from FPS games (CoD for example).
*Survival games are perfect*
nice slow place but not too boring and it can get tough. They require teamwork to get further faster and to craft and build things.
Minecraft to begin with is best (with a friend).
Grounded is also an awesome game for teamwork and communication. Loved playing that with my German friend, building coll bases and battling bugs.
Deutsch kann ne echt schwere Sprache sein, selbst für Muttersprachler. Viel erfolg beim weiteren lernen!
Many people learn English through video games, and I'm glad finally there is a video for those who never knew what it's like,
learning curse words before you could count, in CS:GO. 😊
I'm learning russian and i know curse words but i can't count to twenty
@@meowz4days😂
Yeah, when i heard the part about "go play stuff and meet some who talk the language" and then i realised that yeah most of my english learning was at like 8y+ playing stuff, and in 4 years i got a perfect score of english in school and ever since done the same grade. and it just makes sense that any other language i could learn that way too but i mostly just went duolingo and didn't bother thinking of a conversation anywhere else since duo is more like a "remember these words for later" and it takes a long time to get ahead after doing sentences with the same maybe 9 words every course.
@@Chillwave6tbh I only use duolingo so I can read raw manga and vns
Cute..
cyberpunk 2077 has a ridiculous amount of supported languages AND full audio support for most of them too. it's all i do to study french lmao. can't recommend it enough--you pick up so much slang and words for random everyday items, and i can't think of a more immersive game
funnily enough, cyberpunk is great to learn slang and a more "natural" speech
Well I guess that's reason enough for me to do my 15th playthrough of cyberpunk
since there is subtitles and audio, do you think (for in my case japanese) i should play with audio on japanese and english subtitles? switch them up or maybe both
I'm doing the same thing but in German. Great voice acting and localisation in CB77. Great minds think alike!
I am a native English speaker and I barely even understand it in English... I've been scared to switch the language
My dumbass was thinking programming languages when I clicked this video 💀
Nah same, but this was better.
Programming is a scam
It’s so over
Learn how to program in Japanese
You clearly wanted to be programmer byt couldnt reach it
I would love to do this! I know for me, I'm learning Chinese (specifically Mandarin). I use Duolingo and HelloChinese. I like Duolingo to practice the Hanzi characters mostly, and just repeating outloud the characters to practice my pronunciation. On Duolingo, I'm kind of just pushing through to just get the extra vocabulary, but HelloChinese is WAY better than Duolingo. HelloChinese actually teaches grammar rules, and even talks about context rules for when to use/not use certain things, as well as discussing the differences compared to English. HelloChinese even has a TON of videos and stories of native speakers talking, and you have to type out (in Chinese) what they are saying. There are a lot of words in Chinese that have multiple symbols that each mean something different. It's a slow process though, and more tedious than just learning by playing games. :D
I also am learning Chinese!! Pleco is such a good app too, it's just a Chinese dictionary but I use it whenever I don't understand a certain character. Ninchanese(?) Is also helpful!!!
2 for 2 on banger videos so far dude. was totally shocked to see u were the same guy who made calc's plan lol. clearly u will be very successful in any number of content genres. can't wait to see more
holy moly, as a native spanish your spanish is very good!
I will be trying the tips on this video, thanks
I got a Giancarlo Esposito vibe.
Am I crazy? 😂
@@Zickziinah, he does have a bit of an accent, but nothing really related to sounding "too american", tho his accent only has to do with syllable stress where it shouldn't be...
so he's doing fine 🫡
Yeah, bro's preeeety good at it. Like, the occasional gringo comes out, but it's the closest i've ever heard
As a native English speaker, this is what I was looking for. Thanks to all the native Spanish speakers who chimed in to let us know that he's not speaking some clunky-ass Spanish with a thick accent.
I'm not a native English speaker and I learned English in early age by actually playing Legend of Zelda and I was stuck, didn't know what to do, and then I started to check walkthroughs, read every npc dialogues, which were obviously in English. At that time I was a kid who only learned a little bit of English once a week at school, so I translated those things by myself so I could progress in the game. Eventually I finished most zelda games while also learning English at it. Though I must say my English is getting better when as I started playing an MMORPG game (toram online) and joined an active English guild. Having daily conversation with other English speaker is very helpful for me to get used to this language, even though it's just in written form. As of now I'm trying to improve my hearing comprehension by watching and listening to English videos in TH-cam, since I think more or less my written English is sufficient to hold a conversation. But... Speaking though.... I haven't gotten a chance yet to actually practice it, but I hope I can in the future
your english is very good!
Let me tell you as someone who learned English as a second language at a very young age, your English is leagues better than many native speakers, at least in the U.S. You may have an accent but if your spoken English is as good as it is written, you're already in very good shape.
very rare to see toram online player Hahahaha
@@FGLKyoumayeah, no that's simply not how language works, you can't "speak better" than a first language speaker in your target language.
toram is actually a good game to chat
My native language is Russian, and now I understand English pretty well. Basically, I just started watching TH-cam videos on English and comparing some texts between ru and eng (with basic knowledge ofc). At first, I watched videos with ru subtitles, then I watched them with en subtitles and now I can pretty much understand it by ear. I still have some room to improve: My vocab feels 'limited' so it's a bit hard to express my thoughts in English (although MUCH better than 1-2 years ago), I still sometimes just can't understand some phrases, I can't talk out loud (I didn't practice it at all) and it's much easier for me to 'get lost' in the text than in Russian. But I really feel like really got better over past 2 years. I also think about becoming a translator in the future, since I really into this topic.
yeah your english is really good
Yeah, that's basically how I learnt to speak english too. I studied it outside of school with a tutor many years ago, so I have good grammar. But I would never be able to speak fluently without the internet. I became an international school student about a year ago, and my English is better than most people who were at the school since early childhood. Привет из Таиланда)
Dude your English is really good. Honestly, if someone put this in front of me and asked me "Native speaker: yes or no?" I *might* be able to get it *maybe* by how you take less of the lazy shortcuts that native speakers do lol. I think you have a bright future in translation!
Lol same.
Like, 90% of the media i consume now is in english, although i am a spanish speaker natively.
I remember the days of pirated PS2 games that weren't translated. That was our trial by fire back then xD
i want to learn russian
Your advice is immensely helpful. I have tried many of these myself and are 100% the best way to learn any language. Immersing yourself in your target language works every time, and doing it while playing games or watching shows are some the greatest ways.
I recently coined the term "virtual skills training", trying to turn hobbies into transferable life skills. This is a PERFECT example of using gaming/shows to LEARN a language! For me, other personal examples include playing F1 racing for focus and reaction training, Dragonball Z Fighterz for focus, reaction time and aggression outlet, Age of Empires for resource management skills that are transferable to running a business/startup. So many other ways to enhance your life by being more intentional with activities we already love. A good CONTENT DIET is underrated!
The funny thing is because a lot of games didn't have clean translations to my native language, I had to learn English in order to play games like Fallout New Vegas and other text heavy games, ended up learning more through these games than through school.
What is your nattive language?
Fallout is a very good idea
Another reason to replay fallout 4
Was me
I remember picking persona 5 as my first completely untranslated game(that i would truly read)
It was a hell of experience,even though it was easy,it was the first big step in truly understanding English
Holy crap this video captures what I’ve been trying to tell people! In 2017 my Chinese family move to the US, apart from my relative that were already here there was no Chinese at all in my area. I struggled for a while until everyone started to play Fortnite, I started playing too. I had more motivations and the words used were typically simpler than the stuff taught in school. Eventually I made friends and was able to talk to them. Then quarantine came and I basically played games everyday for an entire year, and when I come out of it I pretty much became “normal” and speak just as well as all my other classmates, even becoming the stereotypical Chinese kid. Every time people would ask how I learned English they never took me seriously when I tell them video games.
How do I do that in reverse??😢
I am trying to learn chinese, but putting my phone in chinese sounds like misery because reading is way harder than speaking.
@@FranciscoGanancio hmmm maybe try to watch more Chinese content, I used to watch a bunch of yt videos just to my interest (gameplays, automotive stuff for me). However, I think although it is easier to learn this way vs reading books and stuff, you do still have to make sacrifices to actually learn a language. But don’t give up and I wish you the best of luck!
Amigo tu español es el mejor que he escuchado de alguien de Estados Unidos en mucho tiempo, de verdad muchas gracias por este video :3
(I also learned most of the English vocabulary in discord servers lol)
Unironically, this is how I learned English as my second language; my native language is Greek. When it came to English though, I was initially a slow learner and properly pronouncing words was difficult because a lot of the sounds English has aren't in Greek. Having to speak while gaming, and in a second language too, kind of flipped my scenario upside down. I had started learning faster and I actually developed an accent that saved me throughout my English classes in school. (I used to impress my teachers during speaking exercises lol)
Guys he's right, if you wanna learn a new language and are a gamer, try finding people who speak it. Helps out a ton, it's basically free speaking practice. FYI: keep in mind that, becoming fluent in English, took 4-5 years for me. This may vary for other languages, but it's important to realize you can't just learn a language overnight. It takes effort and patience!
Since there are a lot of games already made in Japanese, you have a ton of free immersion in that. People act like Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn but I just read manga and played games and it just got easier and easier. Obviously I'm simplifying it a bit here but that's most of it. Another tip I can give you, is to play Sims in your target language if you can. It is the pinnacle of everyday life language in gaming. Sure you won't get much listening practice from it but IMO reading more is better.
Thanks for the tip. I want to get good at French so I think switching my sims game to French would help me also bc I already have a groundwork in the language. :)
the issue is that japanese text is really not comprehensible to a beginner, there are way too many unknown kanji so you end up just learning nothing
@raidev_ that's where Google lens comes in my dude. Even then, that's the point. I learned kanji by coming across a new word, looking it up (Google lens helps with this) and I put it into my Anki deck and just learn the word with the kanji. You don't have to waste time studying the meanings of kanji because you will figure it out after you learn a few words with it.
@@raidev_personally in my experience for learning Japanese (I lived most of my life in Pakistan and had to move there for studies) I basically learnt kanji, katakana and hiragana alphabets first from a basic textbook and learnt the speaking part by immersing myself into the language (I had no choice) and that’s the part that helped me the most. I would say the listening part of Japanese is the hardest part for learning the language because different people there have different dialects and speed of speaking so what I would recommend to do with that is watch as many shows and videos as you can so you can improve listening as much as possible. Like the original comment said games do indeed help in learning the language but mainly the reading and writing part.I really struggled with the listening part but eventually if you do put time into it you’ll get it 👍
How did you deal with unknown words? I just completed the 2.3k core deck and have been playing some rpg maker games and have attempted reading manga, but manga typically have too much kanji that I don't know. Did you use a dictionary/translater like yomitan?
the switch to spanish got me lol
As a German, I got most of my knowledge for English just by playing games and watching TH-cam content. That's how I noticed that my English was more advanced compared to other's in my class. Gaming was a huge blessing for me in that regard 🙏
i'm english and wasn't really given an opportunity to learn german as a child and they certainly never taught it at school, so last year i started playing games with german dub or subtitles and listening to german gaming channels speaking... you're right, it works :D
I'm happy to hear that!
Omg it's siffrin!
YES! Glad to see someone who recognizes it. I love In Stars And Time
MAN WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING.
I somehow completely overlooked this avenue of learning, thank you.
0:45 the accent is absolutely perfect
Yeah the accent is absolutely on point ! You do hear that it’s not his native language but wow, impressive !
Buying learning books and taking online courses to learn Russian = over a $1000
CS2: Free
Do the math
I learned the cyrillic alphabet to be able to read what russians said in chat back in the csgo days. I can read russian now but I lack the vocabulary to know what it all means lol.
Spasiba gandon :D
CS2: free but needs $2000 pc
That's a good one.
@@OpposingFork runs on most laptops from the last 10 years, also if it doesnt run, play CS:S still enough players and it runs on most older hardware of the last 20 years.
If you system is still to weak, play CS, run on EVERYTHING and there are still enough player around.
Thank you for giving specific resources and examples, rather than the more general advice that most videos give. It makes it a lot easier to get up and pursue it.
I found it to be rather vague, and i knew everything already. So what I took from the video was "stop being lazy and just start doing it"
muy buen español! i get your point here because i was immersed to english since i was a kid without even noticing it, from shows, games and other stuff. im looking forward to learning other languages too so i'll take your advice. great video
This is incredibly well done, especially for it being technically your first video! You have a definite future in content creation. I subscribed. Thank you for the video!
This is unfortunate, the language I want to learn has speakers with such a high proficiency in English that they just default to English while gaming 💀
edit: for those wondering it's danish
I had the same issue with German. That's why I just gave up and learned Japanese instead since like 99% of them know barely any English.
@@coolbrotherf127 yeah for some reason all my german friends are all extremely fluent and.. i just thought they were from america (i’m fluent in german cus i live there XDD)
Lingua franca of the world... For now anyway
What language?
@@hayabusa1329 dansk
I already speak Russian sufficiently, but I could definitely use consistent practice since I live in the US and don't know some of the more subtle idioms. It definitely helps that a huge chunk of my family speak Russian natively.
Go play csgo
Я, как носитель русского, используя школьную базу, сначала с субтитрами, постепенно учился понимать английский только с помощью просмотра ютуба и сериалов. Сейчас я легко могу понимать английский близко к носителю
what methods did you use for learning?
@@Il_panda real
hello again
True, whenever im learning a language, i change my main games to that language since then i have to read the UI and understand the characters and so on or i end up lost, try adjusting a games video, keybind and audio settings and youll soon realize how tough a task it is
I really got into learning Spanish when I saw Encanto about 3 years ago, so now my phone, lots of the music in my playlist, and many video games that I play are all in Spanish.
It is really interesting to be able to see how different things get translated, especially when I already memorized the game in English. The most interesting part is when things get mistranslated and I get to determine the correct translation. I once found a metal called a "planchar", and realized that it was accidentally translated to iron (v.) because it ended in -ar.
Bro drops the hardest music video dips, and comes back with a completely different style of banger video. How does he do it 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏🙏
i learned english just by chating with people on roblox, and yt videos
your english is pretty good just remember that its "chatting"
Alot of Roblox players basically suck at spelling (and sometimes grammar) so always remember to check the technical side of the language after experiencing the practical side with people.
Same lol roblox was good
Nice, I learned most of my English from Runescape & cable TV lol.
I just took your advice and just swapped my phone into Japanese. I've been studying for a while but this is still going to be a major change!
I want to learn Japanese as well
personally i dont think the phone language will help with japanese, this is because you can understand what it means sure but you wont know how to pronounce it, conversing with natives through gaming might be the more efficient method in the case of chinese and japanese imo
@@Rainbonyte i appreciate hearing that. I really just wanted to change it so it's on my mind more often and to help with reading. I already have a decent level of pronunciation and speaking practice so getting the characters in front of me more often is pretty helpful.
Also one thing I didn't think of is that it changed my gps into Japanese so I get some more listening practice there as well
@@karstensingh343 duolingo does have hiragana/katakana training, i also used to use an app called kana which has even more training
Just make sure you remember the steps to change it back. I put my Netflix into Polish, hoping it would suggest stuff for me that was in Polish, and when I wanted to go back to watching things in English, it took some time to work my way through the settings to the right place to change it back. Lol.
0:32 That's true, I successfully learned American Sign Language from Voice Chat :D
How does that even work?! 😂
@@Hunter57588vrchat has a ASL community
@@Hunter57588VRChat with Valve Index Knuckle controllers? lol
i actually strengthened my ASL from a discord server tbh
funnily enough, my first convo there was about music
This is actually really helpful. Here is Canada we have a French Immersion program. Which is pretty much school in French. We learn French from Kindergarten to Grade 12. I never took it that seriously and was never really into studying so I struggled my way through it. Technically my French should be on the level of a full fledged Québec speaker but it's a lot closer to middle school level maybe. I've always regretted not focusing enough on French in my elementary/high school days and have been wanting to take some classes to improve it. You gave really good advice and I think I might try these things to learn proper French and get to the level I'm supposed to be.
Québec french is harsh because we have so many slangs and we mix english and french more and more, creating a "frenglish" dialect
In America, we have something similar but with Spanish! Also, what is the difference between Canadian French and European French? I'm learning the latter, but are there different rules between the two of them or is it just a location thing? There is a fantastic teacher on TH-cam called ThePerfectFrenchWithDylan. There are other teachers I use as well, but Dylan provides a lot of examples, resources, and has numerous videos.
ngl I totally thought this was gonna be a cop-out clickbait kind of video, but it wasn't and I'm happy I was wrong about that prediction
Tbh I completely agree with you, because I have learnt English the same way, playing games and watching TH-cam and talking with my own sister, now I'm extremely fluent like native speakers. Gaming can really be a huge language teacher better than school, just one tip try to get a language partner it makes learning so much easier
You've also gone through years of education on English lol kinda a big point to miss, isn't it
@@saeedbarari2207 yeah but school only helped me get my reading and writing to be good, for practical speaking and understanding gaming and youtube was the way to go
@@saeedbarari2207 In some cases, you would be right. However, I learnt almost all of my English from video games, youtube, movies, books, etc. School has not taught me a significant amount, honestly. But I do agree that it can make a difference for some people, such as my friends, who didn't learn English from the Internet like I did.
@@theoldhogchannel > ...*almost* all of my English...
who taught you grammars and basics and sentence structure? THAT's the part where textbooks and classes help. after that, of course its up to you to upgrade your skills with immersion instead of reading through a dictionary of thousands of words.
@@saeedbarari2207 I was already fluent in English before I received any lessons in middle school. There's a bit of a misconception with your view on grammar, grammar isn't taught to natives, they learn it through comprehensible input. When they get taught these concepts like sentence structures, it's more like they're putting labels on stuff they already instinctively know through using the language. Many natives don't even really understand the rules of the language they're speaking of writing, they just "know" what is correct based on experience and that is the same for many of us that have learned English as our second language. When I got taught english across high school and middle school I never looked at any of the textbooks, nor did I have to.
Textbooks are helpful in putting the context of the language into words and helping you tackle grammar in a more logical way, but it's not necessary when learning a language.
Idk man putting my phone on japanese sounds like misery
Do it no balls. It will be all katakana anyways
@DescipleOfDJK Not all, but a huge amount of UIs are largely loan words from English since it's all tech related words
Honestly it didn't help me at all, because looking up every single word, especially kanji you don't know is tiring and you will stop doing it. However you might gain something from seeing them often enough. For recognizing kanjis it's great I think, but incredibly tedious too.
Btw this gaming with Japanese won't work with online games anyway if you live outside of asia and you want a ping of less than 300
Bro the Katakana makes my brain numb
@@swordcreeper7754 ...where did you get the idea that setting your language to JP would throw you into asian servers??
thank you for this video, it gives me alot of confidence and motivation to just.. learn and honestly its the best feeling ever so thanks alot for making this video!!
0:17 As a dominican I must reluctantly agree here. Only the Ricans got us beat XD
Dude, I really like your style. Just like, your editing, your casual tone, the way the script flows. Really dig it. You deserve a much bigger sub count. Would love to see more videos, about anything really. I'd watch even if it wasn't a topic I usually seek out.
Yes, and this is exactly why am I watching this video without translation
Its not perfect though
English jajaja
where are you from?
@@DavidIsFrenchTemp Russia
@@siz1700 nice, I'd love to learn Russian one day
GREAT VIDEO!!!! I'll be sure to try some of the links when I have more time! I was so happy to see the gang on the video too :')
Thanks for the comprehensive break down of how you did it! I'm anxious for the next vid!
I work at a paint store (selling house paint) and 60% of painters speak Spanish. It's fun learning Spanish from them (and my Spanish speaking coworker) and watching them learn English.
You earned a follow from me. And so long as you keep up with language learning through gaming you will keep me as a follower. This is a friendly threat.
Genuinely, setting my games and phone to Spanish a couple years ago has helped so much
Ok before I continue watching the video...
I was born and grew up bilingual, as my household spoke both English and Spanish as Puerto Ricans from the island (which is different from PRs from the states, slightly different upbringing.)
I want to start out by saying, while I can tell by how you spoke Spanish that you'd be a tourist... I do want to say, that was really really good, SOME OF THE BEST I've heard spoken from a learner, and I've heard some pretty good spanish from some Americans who put effort into pronunciation. So yeah, that was really really good Spanish. No exaggeration, and no joke either. Bravo friend!
That's it, that's all, just wanted to compliment your Spanish.
Resuming Video and subscribing...
By far this sounds amazing, and it’s what I’d want to do with the languages, but hell is that scary to think to do. Talk to strangers. Even in my normal languages
honestly if you don’t like talking to strangers the best way to practice speaking is through an online tutor. italki is a good resource but there are multiple online language tutoring services that aren’t insanely expensive. to me at least it feels better to speak with someone who is planning on correcting and teaching you vs some rando who didn’t really sign up to be your tutor lol
I played so many cooperative fighting games, I picked up "Vamos a la puerto de enimgos" and a bunch of other phrases and sentences, its even better considering I normally get grouped with spanish people when I play at awkward times in the afternoon
I've been learning French by playing games and watching Netflix. My games are all single player, I didn't even consider multiplayer. Thanks for the reddit links, there's lots here that I can add to my studying!
Holy fuck, your Spanish is so damn good and clear, I'm Hispanic, I learned English by playing video games, reading comments on social media, listening podcasts, reading books and of course movies and music, school taught me the basics, from there, the rest of things I mentioned taught me the rest, I put my English to the test everyday too, I work as a delivery driver so I get to talk with people often, what helped me the most was my insatiable desire to learn the language as i knew it would open many doors, thanks to all that, I am now a proud bilingual, helping not only my family and friends but also my community, congrats man, I'm glad you made a video about this.
I can actually put my touhou addiction to use
Same bro. By the time I finish a hard 1cc I hope to have more Japanese proficiency.
3:58 I think more people are trying to learn English, because - while it isn't the most spoken language - it is the most widely spoken language. While, let's say, 30% (made this number up. I know Chinese is the most spoken language, but English isn't far behind *I also acknowledge that some sources say it's English THEN Chinese) more total people speak Chinese, they are concentrated in one country. The incrementally smaller amount of people speak English, but they are dispersed widely.
English has the most speakers than any other language. Mandarin has the most native speakers.
English is the most spoken language.
Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken native language.
It’s because you absorb the language in its natural context yet a safe environment, aka a story.
thanks for english and spanish subtitles included in this video. i'm really thanksfull because i have some issues with learning any languages
I'll be damned, for what little Spanish you spoke throughout the video, yours is on par with most native Spanish speakers, if not better. Great work!
It's also worth mentioning that learning a language is not about the destination, but about the journey. Once you look back and realize how far you've come, the feeling of satisfaction is unmatched.
6:34 :) it was an entertaining video tbf! :)
Loll I watched your last video and didn’t realise u were the same guy, would be cool if u uploaded more tho :) [:
Your Spanish is on point, maybe the some sounds are little off but dang you sound like a complete native, congratulations
Another tip, as painful as it may be, not only change your phone language into your target language, but also turn on Voice Over. It really helped me as I could immideately hear the pronunciation for words I didn't know.
you're so right about this. the best way to learn a language is to combine it with something you enjoy, whether it be gaming, sports, cooking, listening to music, whatever. it will start to feel less like a chore and will start to become second nature and a lot more natural. talking to ppl online/in a game/in real life is also such a bonus because you can immerse yourself in how people naturally speak (not like in the textbook) and adapt that within your own vocabulary and speaking so you sound more like a native
I thought you were gonna talk about programming languages. The concept of real languages exited my mind completely!
Around 20 years with text-heavy games is what you need to learn the language by gaming. There are lots of games that are in a foreign language (usually English) that don't require even a bit of knowledge on it: arena shooters, shmups, platformers and other general action games where the story is merely an excuse and you can learn mechanics by heart without in-game tutorials or reading an instruction manual. Strategy games, especially grand strategy games, economic strategy games (the more complex the better) and story-heavy computer RPGs are genres where you gotta learn the language either to comprehend gameplay mechanics explained throroughly in the manual or to follow the story.
I have a friends who learned English from playing Mobas. not a good idea, he was pretty much trained to use slurs as filler words.
@@nox5555 This is why I specifically didn't mention multiplayer games. My brother played Tibia for quite some time and the vocabulary included lots of game-specific abbreviations, slang, and of course profanities and slurs, though the latter were very limited, because offending someone in a MMORPG is a very *bad* idea. On top of that, conversations between players are chaotic. Either way, I meant single-player games with well-written lore and dialogue.
Welcome back!
Im german and with 6 my mom didn’t know how to switch my Minecraft from English to german and that gave me a major headstart compared to my other classmates for example. i literally taught myself English through Minecraft, or well, Minecraft sparked the passion of wanting to learn a language.
So, this works pretty good 👍
As a south american myself I gotta say your spanish is on point man, props to learning spanish and sharing your methodology, I'll definetely try it to learn Italian.
Damn dude, I am so glad I found this video. Thank you so much for the resources.
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I learned english just by insulting kids on titanfall 2
hell yeah
Learned english by gaming. But i only became good at it through other media aswell like movies or TH-cam videos.
Honestly NEVER thought there would be discord servers for this, time to dive in and super-charge my spanish speaking !
the finals, let's go! sorry that's the part that was most exciting for me XD great work on the video, very helpful!
2:10 Can you put your anki deck for download?
I saw the Bolivia flag and was baited but yeah I learned english because I wanted to play maple story that was on full english at 8 years old
I learned my english from games like Minecraft.
I 100% agree with everything here. Gaming has helped me improve quite a few languages
Thank you, I feel like you opened new opportunities for language learning. Awesome video, have a nice day man :)
With english and most other languages, sure, but not gonna work with asian languages. I mean i literally learned English solely from vidya and chatting with people on the internet, all to the point of forming (i hope) coherent sentences and nowadays expressing my opinions(nobody fucking cares about) on things. I played through and somehow managed to finish many untranslated japanese games(mostly psp and ps2 titles), but i still struggle with memorizing 'kanas. Sure, i got some vocab from games, visual novels, anime, but that didn't teach me rarely used words and everyday/real-life stuff that's rarely used in media, i got those from watching Japanese podcasts, and streamers(vtubers or otherwise), but at the end of the day i don't consider language "learned" if i'm not even capable of forming coherent sentences in it and reading the text. So yeah, you can learn languages by gaming, but you can't learn ANY language by just gaming.
I can read Arabic but if I tried to speak it every Arabic speaker would slap and bruise my face
yeah, Arabic is kinda bit hard for pronunciation. one wrong letter and you will said "oh your dog is kind" instead of "you have a kind heart"
also the "your dog is kind" can be mistranslated as "your dog is delicious" lmfao 💀
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... I don't think there are many Basque video games! And I'm Basque myself just not fluent because my family speaks Castellano.. If anyone knows any, lmk!
Honestly I've done this exact method myself for Swedish before this video came out, though I still struggle a bit when forming sentences on the fly when speaking, but reading and writing have been pretty good for me. It really does help switching the language of devices, shows, and apps to your target language to learn it!
OP is lit with this vid, I knew I could increase my language learning experience with gaming but I didn't know that I could just straight up learn a language wiht gaming, and by using what is effectively the same strategy as before. super cool 10/10 guide.
5:30 unfortunately play valorant
2:59 video starts
i made it to the end! first video of my day(after a quick other one) that actually mattered thank you for the clips . and the info
I’m not gonna lie this video was amazing. Not only was it super helpful and informational but it was also like not boring to watch and actually entertaining
Thank you! This is absolutely amazing appreciate this content and information! ❤
I learned the meaning of the intro to gundam because I watched with Spanish subtitles but with Japanese audio. I took spanish for 5 years in school but also basically was over instructed in rigid formalities, but that time helped me begin my steps into Japanese. I decided recently to start picking up another language, if not more. I game a lot but also I want the ability to communicate with and across cultures.
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