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[Esppiral]

Shenmue taught me english,

BTW.. do you know where I can find a place where sailors hang out?

 

[FingerBang]

I did not use any specific game to learn a specific language, but as a child in a non speaking county, I was initially forced to play many games in English since localization wasn't a bit thing until the late 90s.

I remember not only playing games, but also downloading/printing guides from GameFAQ.

I also played a ton of games in Japanese when living there. Most of the Yakuza games from 3 onwards. Not something I'd recommend as a learning experience tho

もちろん最近たくさん日本からげむあそべます

「たすけでください」僕の新しいモジョです

頑張れ！

 

[Alebrije]

Yes , used games yo learn English , started with this :

Therefore My English sucks

 

[Cakeboxer]

Multiplayer games in the early 2000s taught me so much about my mother in so many languages.

 

[A.Romero]

As many have described my brother and I both learned English through video games.

Eventually I went to live to an English speaking country but my brother never traveled. By playing counter strike he achieved such a good handle on the language that he became an interpreter/translator and lived out of that for several years.

The dude is a genius. Too bad he is a victim of ADHD and it has made very difficult for him to exploit his full potential.

 

[Unfortunatecookie]

Well I can already speak multiple languages, but Japanese games — thanks to Sony and Nintendo — didn't really motivate me to learn Japanese.

The future of linguistics is really just live-translation through an app/service. So as bad as this might sound, we're strolling into a world where we don't have to learn another language.