Manny Calavera Teaches Spanish!

Overview of how adventure video games can be modified to be used in foreign language education. Demonstrates an example mixing the Spanish version of the game "Grim Fandango" with the principles outlined in Dr. Paul Pimsleur's book "How to Learn a Foreign Language"

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• foreign
• language
• learning
• education
• video
• games
• grim
• fandango
• spanish
• teach

[Sadikoyron]

I learned my English by playing Pokemon!!

[pausebreak12]

i´ve learned english with al gta´s

[chessysensei]

Is there a link for this completed version of the game? This would be awesome for a Spanish 305 review...

[DataProwler]

Hell, if the board of education joined up with the video game industry and made intellectual games, I can easily imagine many people playing them. I personally like watching anime in japanese (with subtitles), so I can say learning can be fun, even if secondary.

[musedoom]

Cool way to learn spanish...I've learnt english playing games in original version and its really a good idea

[Sionydus]

(btw, grim fandango is easily available illegally in spanish through a simple google search)

[Sionydus]

what kind of accent would you say manny has? i think it sounds very nice

[deejaydogonline]

This happens because the spanish Glottis speaks in a way that makes it sounds funny / crazy and maybe even illiterate.

I don't know the original english lines of this game because i never played the english version. I'm Argentinian. I allways played it in spanish.

But i've learned some english on the Highschool (called 'Paraná High School') LOL Whtever...

Hope i was useful!

Greetings from Argentina (Paraná - Entre Ríos)

Manuel Alejandro González García (like Manny ^^)

I Love Grim!