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The Elder Scrolls (commonly referred to as TES) is an award-winning series of roleplaying games created by Bethesda Softworks. Set in the vast world of Nirn, The Elder Scrolls series is renowned for the level of unprecedented control given the player over his or her character's destiny, establishing itself as the benchmark in immersive, independently-living worlds for the RPG genre.

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Elder Scrolls is Great for Learning a Language! (self.elderscrolls)
submitted 1 year ago by emeraldheart to c/elderscrolls@lemmy.ml
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Hi all! I've been teaching myself German lately, and I've really found so much value in switching Skyrim over to German and immersing myself that way! At first it was really, really hard, and I was spending a lot of time stopping and translating words and adding them to my flashcard app.

Now, it's still hard, but I'm finding with the repetition and the need to know the words, I'm learning quickly! The way you can stop and examine items and learn words that way, and the slow speed of dialogue and ability to repeat most dialogue really lends itself to learning a language.

It's also just a lot of fun! I've never played the DLCs, somehow, so I'm excited to get through the game and play those, as well as trying out some nice mods!

Has anyone else here done this? :)

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[โ€“] NOOBMASTER@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same goes with pretty much any computer game that makes you read a lot of text. Actually, I would say Skyrim is worse for language learning due to all the fictional location / person / item names in the game, and rich lore.

[โ€“] emeraldheart 1 points 1 year ago

I appreciate that feedback; do you have good alternative suggestions? I'd love to branch out to other games too! I do think it's kind of fun to learn the word for "potion" or "necromancy" though :)

One major benefit I'm getting is listening comprehension.