Maybe some of you will be interested in what I’m going to mention today……”how to improve your English through (online) games”. If you’re parents or teachers, believe it or not, this is a good way to practice English and expand your social network. Of course, please discuss this issue with your child first.
(I do not mean to advertise the games I’ve played) The first game I was playing is called DeadFrontier, just another zombie shooting MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). So, what’s the point? Bundles of vocabulary and sentence structure inside the inventory, forum and wiki. In the multiplayer mode, you can interact with other players. However, I won’t recommend this game because it is time consuming; better just leave after you learn from items and the wiki.
Facebook is a great tool of making friends (as well as finding friends lol), game companies were realizing that this is another potential market, so there are plenty of good games for us. Last year I was used to play one of them called My Heroes Ability, which is a tribute to the well known TV drama episodes Heroes. The most precious memory was that met friends around the world, created a clan and became one of the strongest in the whole game. Unfortunately, the company stopped supporting this game and even closed. After that, I started my journey in Battlestations. Like the former one, I can meet clanmates which are from other countries, chi-chat and discuss game issues in the chat room (English is the only language), as you are not too shy to join the chat, you will eventually master English in normal interaction. Though it may not be useful in exams, you can sounds more natural in conversations with foreigners.
All in all, learn English from games is another effective way. But bear in mind that, even the game has Chinese version, please use the English version, and not to be addicted for sure!
