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Master english with Starcraft

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mdb
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Bulgaria4059 Posts
January 18 2009 14:05 GMT
#1
South Korea loves Starcraft. People here still play the decade old game online and matches are always played on TV. South Korea also has a broad selection of English training books that go from your basic workbook to well… Starcraft English! Yes, through the magic of Starcraft you can boost your English vocabulary. While the concept seems strange, Starcraft English is actually brilliant. It’s designed for hardcore fans who immediately know what a Zealot is regardless of the “difficulty” of the word or the language barrier. (Note: Starcraft was only released in English in Korea!)


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more info on : http://www.siliconera.com/2008/01/21/master-english-with-the-power-of-starcraft-english/
MrHoon *
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
10183 Posts
January 18 2009 14:08 GMT
#2
Im not gonna lie, I learned alot of vocabulary playing diablo.
dats racist
Hans-Titan
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Denmark1711 Posts
January 18 2009 14:20 GMT
#3
Hehe, the reason I'm acing english atm is starcraft, warcraft and diablo.
Trying is the first step towards failure, and hope is the first step towards disappointment!
lokiM
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3407 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-18 14:22:50
January 18 2009 14:22 GMT
#4
rofl wow this is amazing
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You can't fight the feeling.
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22208 Posts
January 18 2009 14:27 GMT
#5
LOL, playing to your strengths indeed
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5725 Posts
January 18 2009 14:28 GMT
#6
this is interesting. it should be a school textbook!
4v4 is a battle of who has the better computer.
bioboyAT
Profile Joined July 2004
Austria1763 Posts
January 18 2009 14:33 GMT
#7
korea is just great<3
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syyhkyrotta
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Finland16 Posts
January 18 2009 14:39 GMT
#8
yes idd
sup
Frits
Profile Joined March 2003
11782 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-18 14:50:41
January 18 2009 14:40 GMT
#9
Videogames and movies taught me english.

I dont think I remember a single thing from school, past present, present perfect? Present simple? No fucking clue what they are anymore lol.

Anyway this does seem like a pretty decent way to improve vocabularies I guess.
TonyL2
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
England1953 Posts
January 18 2009 14:47 GMT
#10
Hehe, that is pretty awesome it probably would be able to help quite a lot of people

Also I think I've seen this in a thread a while back, but cool for reminding me
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
January 18 2009 14:54 GMT
#11
Haha, that's amazing. I didn't learn much from SC except meanings of: Zealot, Corsair, and Scourge. In terms of other games so learned so much from Civilization IV and III.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
January 18 2009 14:55 GMT
#12
I think i have already seen this before but that's still awesome ^_^

I learn a lot of vocabulary from video games too :p
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43362 Posts
January 18 2009 15:00 GMT
#13
Someone link this to Izzycraft.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Itachii
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Poland12466 Posts
January 18 2009 15:07 GMT
#14
Lineage 2 taught me english, school was just for useless definitions of times and stuff, which I don't remember anymore.
La parole nous a été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
January 18 2009 15:11 GMT
#15
Learned a lot of words from Diablo 2. Some are actually decent adjectives.
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shimmy
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Poland997 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-18 15:16:03
January 18 2009 15:12 GMT
#16
Looooooooool Id love to have that SC English book. Does anyone know if you can buy it online somewhere?
Hell hath no fury like the vast robot armies of a woman scorned.
Lamentations
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Australia211 Posts
January 18 2009 15:16 GMT
#17
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist
Bogus is like "nerdy cute", whereas Lomo is like "I would make him wear a dress and rape him" cute -Turbovolver
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43362 Posts
January 18 2009 15:20 GMT
#18
On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist

Maybe not in Australian.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
January 18 2009 15:24 GMT
#19
On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist


It does when they say it in korea.
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
Amber[LighT]
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States5078 Posts
January 18 2009 15:26 GMT
#20
On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist


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"We have unfinished business, I and he."
Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
January 18 2009 15:27 GMT
#21
lol korean's accents help twist words to make them soudn what they want. Then if you try to spell what you hear from a korean, its like completely wrong
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25991 Posts
January 18 2009 15:35 GMT
#22
On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist

You can't say Pro-toss in Korean, only Pe-ro-tot or Pe-ro-to-se. Thus, they do sound the same!
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Azrael1111
Profile Joined July 2008
United States550 Posts
January 18 2009 15:36 GMT
#23
Funny how everyone can relate to how much vocabulary they learned from d1/d2
Viledica
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada361 Posts
January 18 2009 16:45 GMT
#24
Hey, I remember this.
lol wow, almost exactly a year ago to the day this was posted.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=65509

A few more days and you would have made it. D:
It is really cool though, I completely forgot about that, thanks for the refresher. XD
Tonkerchen
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
680 Posts
January 18 2009 17:09 GMT
#25
lol this is epic.
well though I learned most "computer english" with the SNES emulators when I was 11 or 12.
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himurakenshin
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Canada1845 Posts
January 18 2009 19:03 GMT
#26
this is pretty old
Haemonculus
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States6980 Posts
January 18 2009 19:09 GMT
#27
I certainly learned almost all of my advanced vocabulary from games growing up. I remember in high school English classes studying Shakespeare, and the teacher having to ask the class "So who knows what an apothecary is?" and the entire class was like clueless. And I'm just thinking "O that's the medicine man.... and in the future he extracts DNA from space marines, lol"
I admire your commitment to being *very* oily
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17554 Posts
January 18 2009 19:12 GMT
#28
On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist


Wait, what?
I guess I shouldn't get my certificate in english then...
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
January 18 2009 19:16 GMT
#29
On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist

But if someone said protahtype or protahgonist you would understand right?
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
irishash
Profile Joined November 2008
United States285 Posts
January 18 2009 19:17 GMT
#30
On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist


any water on mars? cause you're not from earth
clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
January 18 2009 19:20 GMT
#31
ROFL Starcraft is the bset game ever :_)
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
January 18 2009 19:21 GMT
#32
Isn't "hydra" in Korean pronounced with a long e sound? That doesn't seem to work with "hydrogen," "dehydration," or any of the other words on that page.
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Malongo
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Chile3472 Posts
January 18 2009 19:35 GMT
#33
Im laughting here, because the main reason i post here on TL is exactly that: aside from the starcraft content, mafia games and the people i use this site to keep my english improving. Im sure i can understand about 90% of what i read in english yet my ability to speak and write in english is very poor. I think its time to change my quote.
Help me! im still improving my English. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. M. G.
kerr0r
Profile Joined September 2008
Norway319 Posts
January 18 2009 20:56 GMT
#34
On January 19 2009 04:17 irishash wrote:
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On January 19 2009 00:16 Lamentations wrote:
proto in protoss does not sound like proto in prototype or prota in protagonist


any water on mars? cause you're not from earth

Actually, the second vowel sounds different in all three cases.
CrimsonLotus
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Colombia1123 Posts
January 18 2009 20:59 GMT
#35
I learned English playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time when i was like 9.

And people say videogames are a waste of time.
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HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
January 18 2009 21:15 GMT
#36
On January 18 2009 23:08 MrHoon wrote:
Im not gonna lie, I learned alot of vocabulary playing diablo.

LOL HELL YES
Diablo > SAT scores gg
"come korea next time... FXO house... 10 korean, 10 korean"
Aznleeman
Profile Joined November 2007
United States208 Posts
January 18 2009 21:20 GMT
#37
Proh-Tosu!
Man, I wanna hear Prototype

Proh-To-Teep!
._.???
DwmC_Foefen
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Belgium2186 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-18 21:21:59
January 18 2009 21:21 GMT
#38
I learned my english with pokemon red/blue silver and simcity 3000 :p

I could understand it at around 10-11 yo I think ^^
kerr0r
Profile Joined September 2008
Norway319 Posts
January 18 2009 21:26 GMT
#39
Ok ok ok. So if SC2 comes with multilanguage support... Could I install it in korean and learn that? 'Ö'
ilovehnk
Profile Joined October 2008
475 Posts
January 18 2009 21:29 GMT
#40
epic
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NotSupporting
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1998 Posts
January 18 2009 21:32 GMT
#41
I have grown up with computer games since I was really little. My dad used to work with computers. I have learned so much English by just playing games.
pubbanana
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3063 Posts
January 18 2009 21:38 GMT
#42
On January 19 2009 06:26 kerr0r wrote:
Ok ok ok. So if SC2 comes with multilanguage support... Could I install it in korean and learn that? 'Ö'


The Korean alphabet is phonetic and thus easy to learn. From there, I would say that yes, you can learn Korean fairly decently like that.

And this is coming from someone who only had exposure to Korean from StarCraft VODs and Korean SC websites. Now, in 2009, I understand more than I don't understand while reading an interview on Fomos or watching an SC VOD, for example.

Granted this was over a 10 year period, but I think the length doesn't matter. All that matters is your desire to learn.
Wachet, stehet im Glauben, seid männlich und seid stark.
Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-18 21:49:33
January 18 2009 21:46 GMT
#43
Haha, this is awesome. I want to learn something other than English and German. I may have just been inspired.

Also, I found the pictures on the bottom of this HILARIOUS. lol @ David+Goliath.

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