bzah

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[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Amazing, thanks!

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

I'm adding this to the list, thanks !

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, I will certainly try the reforged version. Btw it seems Skyrim itself is a good contender as it has both audio and subtitles available in 9 languages.

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

I also recently stumbled upon Chants of Sennaar and the atmosphere looks really interesting. Not sure Influent would be my vibe but thanks for sharing!

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thanks fir the tip for filtering games on steams, unfortunately it also displays games where the audio is only in English but subtitles are available in German, which is not the best for learning purposes.

Good luck with your learning too!

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Well, it would be a lie to say this never happens to me, especially with knights of honor. I still find it better than slacking in my mother tongue though, as I could start practising at any moment while playing.

 

I have been using video games as a mean of learning German and it works pretty well. I just wanted to share a few titles that work nicely for me.

  • Epistory (typing game) great to get used to writing simple words but the story can only be listen to in English.
  • Knights of honor (a grand strategy game), nice to expand vocabulary and seeing over and over again the same words, can be easily paused to translate stuff
  • the curse of monkey Island (point and click), the vocabulary is much harder here, but the voices and text are really well made.
  • I have not tried it, but I also saw Wonderlang which is a RPG specifically dedicated to language learning.

Does anyone have other recommendations, for German or for other languages?

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

If you like it sweet, I just tried yesterday a typical dessert from Saxony (Leipzig): das Quarkkeulchen.

It's basically a pancake but with potatoes as a base, it's surprisingly tasty! https://sachsen.tours/rezepte/saechsische-quarkkeulchen/

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

I will dualboot to keep a windows 10 for software that only runs on it, but I really hope I will be able to be gaming on linux only.

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine people in 2150 praising the visionary and benevolent president Trump who courageously lead our world to the only possible path in order to save the environment: "He fooled them all with his "drill baby drill" and they fell for it, they elected him. Of course some were suspicious that something was off, but he had a grand plan for nature to finally be restored..."

I would love to read this fiction, because reality is quite sad at the moment.

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago

Champagne !

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

People are like: let's move a bit closer to the end of the world, seems like a fun event.

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