World of Warcraft and language learning
Games like Everquest (never rest) and Wow or World of Warcraft are actually not bad modes for learning a language. In these RPG games, you are sucked into countless hours of vivid imaginary role playing. In World of Warcraft you can join bilingual guilds and play on international severs. In World of war-craft you have team speak, actually voice communication not just chat. You talk to other players about your quests etc. The thing about geeky online gamers is they are actually pretty nice and have no pretenses, so when you try to communicate they understand that gaming is an international community. I think it would be hard, at least for me to learn a language by simply playing these games, because you will be too absorbed into the quests etc. Therefore, you could be more thinking of your gold and flexing your muscles in battle then flexing your language skills. World of Warcraft even has a Learn a language quest, but its pretty easy. What you might want to do is study your target language up to a point, then test out your skills in a bilingual guild. Most people say the least they pick up is slang, but many get to practice their target language and use it as a www.languagesocial.com social network for language learning.
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