Language hunting

Whether you are playing a video game in English or watching a gameplay video, listen carefully for words and phrases that might be useful to you. Try to remember them and look them up in a dictionary. We call this language hunting and here are a set of videos that will show you how to do it.

If you are clever enough you can do almost anything in video games. Gamer Iggy Fresh is very clever. Watch what happens when he finds the US president and pay attention to the language he uses.

Warzone. We use the language hunting format, so you can learn some useful English, but still follow the gameplay with two expert gamers, Aculite and StoneMountain64.

Hugely popular video gamers PewDiePie and JackSepticEye are good friends and a lot of fun to watch when they play together. Here they play the newly-released Minecraft Dungeons and their lively conversation is a great source for language hunting, looking for words, phrases and sentences that you can use in your own conversations.

Zack Scott is one of the best video gamers to follow for English learners. This short video, featuring gameplay from Fall Guys Season 3, is full of words and phrases you can use.