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English learners can do a lot to develop their language skills outside of classtime. Here are some ideas on how multiplayer video games can help.

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Learn to understand fast speech

Understanding real-world speech

It doesn’t get more difficult than this. You’ve arrived at the top of the mountain. Native English speakers tend to speak quickly, often blending or linking one sound or word into another. Learn how to understand this fast speech with the help of some of the best teachers in the world.

Understanding real-world English

Listening activities

In each video you will hear a short clip from a popular video game. The clip will be repeated several times, first without text and then with text.

Fast speech listening practice 

Speak and write English more correctly

Grammar for Gamers

Grammar for Gamers

Grammar topics that will help you communicate more effectively with your video game teammates: Understanding and using nouns, verbs, modal verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions plus active/passive voice and conditionals

Vocabulary Building

If you want to communicate, you need something to say. That requires vocabulary and, as you will see in this vocabulary-building section, video games are great for picking up useful new words and phrases. We have divided this section into three parts.

Words for Gamers

Grammar topics that will help you communicate more effectively with your video game teammates: Understanding and using nouns, verbs, modal verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions plus active/passive voice and conditionals

Words for Gamers

Building your general vocabulary

You may not notice them, but conversations in video games are full of words and phrases that you should know and perhaps even use. We are constantly looking for these words and phrases for you and here is what we have found so far. Many more to come. You should understand each of them within an minute.

General Vocabulary

Language hunting

In the previous section, we did the looking for you. Here we show you what to look for yourself. We call this “language hunting” and, with a little practice, you can become a skilled language hunter.

Language Hunting

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