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Learn Languages Through Games on Steam

If you like playing PC games, and want to learn a language at the same time, try this. Set your Steam language to the foreign language you’re trying to learn, and you can play most of your library in that language. It’s under Preferences > Interface then choose your preferred language from the first drop-down.

Sometimes Steam will need to re-download the data to get the localised content, but once that’s all done, you should be able to play without any trouble. For example, both Portal games, Civilisation, Team Fortress 2 and Skyrim all work in French. Check the languages section of Steam store page for that game for what languages are available.

Available languages are listed on the right-hand side of the game's details page

The only problem with learning from games is you might learn a lot of weird vocabulary. Just think of it as gaming with a bonus, rather than actual language practice.

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Avatar Computational linguistics researcher at Kyoto University, focussing on machine translation. Also learning Japanese, Korean, French and other badassery.
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