(Recommendations) Games as Language Immersion?

[hanni-ho]

First thread here. I've been trying to get into more immersion material for my target language this year. I'm right now replaying my recently bought physical DS version of Ghost Trick in Italian because I thought aspects of the gameplay would help me build up vocabulary for everyday objects (since you drag and point at them and do 'tricks' which makes then perform context sensitive actions,) but I'm ending up learning and taking notes of more verbs and sayings if anything LOL.

So, I'm curious: For whatever language you're learning or have learnt, what games have helped you learn your target language? Whether it is reading, listening, or writing, I'm happy to take in anything recommended here.

 

[middler]

In my experience, entertainment media is not a good method for immersion language learning. educational media is useful for active learning but the best sources I have found for just having a language in the room to absorb are: talk/interview shows, and news programs are unbeatable. Every one is speaking naturally and clearly with the intent of being understood.
I am sure video streams for these in the language you are looking for are available but the best place to look (most of the time) is in internet radio stations. Podcasts too!

I hope this helps, and good luck!

 

[Num]

maybe its dependent on the language then because with japanese you wouldn't go to talk shows or the news for natural speak since it uses a whole different subset of the language, like not just the rhythm but flooded with whole vocabulary you would never use in personal conversation. its still useful but thats because learning as many subsets of a language as possible is useful in general. games are really diverse so they have all sorts of situations to learn various different subsets of language from at least in the languages i know so its good material. for me i think the most benefitial thing was visual novels at first, because reading books in a language you hardly understand is very difficult since it relies mostly on the readers imagination from what they read, yet watching streams or movies felt like it wasnt challenging enough and youd be illiterate forever. so with visual novels it has that mix of both where you can still have moments of full on narration to read through like a book but even if you dont properly grasp the situation then the visuals and voice overs can fill in the blanks. it makes it easier to transition to reading full on novels at least this is with japanese maybe it is different with others