Computer game to learn a language

Although not the most straightforward way of learning, I pay chess and computer games on foreign servers. For me example, I play chess on the Polish server “Kurnik” . It is a large game international server but most of the chatting is in Polish and I choose the Polish interface instead of English. Kurnik means “hen house” in Polish. I have learned about 50 words from playing chess there, such as “remis” which means “draw”. I learn Polish words for “take a seat” or “again” and many words I see repeated when people try to chat with me as I play chess, usually slang. You might say 50 words is not a lot of words, but these words I learn without effort and they for some reason stay in my memory and I can recall them with ease. So I am not saying playing computer games is the ‘ultimate good’ , but it goes along with my theory that every way is a good way. When trying to learn a language for me multi media games is a lot more fun than sitting in class.

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