The best games for language acquistion require you to listen carefully to characters using your target langauge in order to understand where you are meant to go and what you are meant to do. Many modern games use so many visual indicators (like maps, in-game markers, and button prompts) that it is possible to complete them without understanding a single word. Furthermore, unlike music and films, which engage you only as a passive listener/observer, games require you to actively engage with the language in order to achieve your goals and progress through the story. Read her article for the full story but put simply, games are a useful way to to expose yourself to new language that you might not learn in text books and practice using your language skills without the pressure of being judged by another human. Over on Speechling’s English blog Stephanie wrote a great article on why playing video games can be fantastic way to complement your language learning. Some people watch films, others put on some Russian music, but there is another way, Video Games. There’s room for improvement (and if you want to improve it, feel free to fork it and make it your own), but it suits my needs and felt like I should share it.Sometimes after a long day, you want to relax but at the same time you want to do something to improve your Russian. They are already formatted with UTF-16 LE and are ready to be used immediately. Whether or not it’s worth it for you is dependent on your application and how much text you have to translate.Īfter setting up your Google Developer Console and installing the Google client API library for Python, you just provide the utility with your English MCM file and it spits out 8 translated files (Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish).

However, in my case, it saves me a tremendous amount of time when I’m getting ready to deploy a change to one of my mods that requires a change in my MCM files that makes it worth it. I’ve made it available on GitHub, along with instructions for how to set up your Google Developer Console and how to use the utility.īe advised that using the Google Translate API is not free it does cost money ($20 per 1 million characters). I have made a utility that automatically translates my English SkyUI MCM files into the 8 other available languages using the Google Translate API.

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