Computer games and English *There was a post on the Discussions board but it had disappeared before I could comment on it. Well, I've already written this text, so I'll just leave it here* I think computer games can be useful - but only if you like games and find the plot interesting. Otherwise, it would be just boring. Personally, I played "Skyrim" a little a few months ago. It wasn't too bad, even though after the first twenty minutes of playing without subtitles my character ended up in the Imperial Legion which wasn't my intention at all. I had to turn the subtitles on; everything became much easier. I think these games - the modern ones - are more useful, because of the voiceover. Sometimes there's no text, but you can hear everything and have no choice but to figure the meaning out because you need to act accordingly to the situation. Besides, there are many accents there so you can get used to the diversity (I'm not sure these are "real" accents though... E.g., what accent do Khajiits speak with? Arabic, Spanish, Russian, something in between? No idea). There's only one drawback I see here: the setting of a story sometimes requires specific vocabulary. So maybe it's not a very good idea to learn English through something like "Knights of the Temple 2" if you're not proficient enough because you may end up sounding like a medieval crusader. I know what I'm talking about, so beware!