The strange game of the future language learner In the childhood I used to play the funny game. On the one hand it was quite usual – I played doctor with myself. Imaginary patients came to me; I observed them and gave healing advices, written on a paper. But on the other hand the game was rather strange – the main thing of it was in speaking and writing in another language. The doctor stuffs were only excuse. Of course that wasn’t a language at all. Just different sounds from the mouth and scribbles on a paper. But I really liked the game process! The first thing surprised me in foreign languages was that they are formed not because of simple replacement the letters in my native language’s words. “It much more complicated”, - said my elder brother, who already was learning English in a school. Later I also had English classes at a school and a university. They gave me a lot but the main results came from the self-study. Maybe that child game was the first step in the language learning process.