Hello, today, I am going to give some impressions and review to the speech that our language learning class heard last class. So the speaker is someone who knew tons of language, including Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, English, lots of European language etc. And he first talked about how he was able to learn English super well through playing an online multiplayer game. I agreed on what he said deeply, but still have some doubts on my own. As for why I agree with him, from my previous entries, I'm sure that you know that I am also someone who learned a whole lot from playing video games when I was small, and he explaining how he got good with the language was somewhat understandable. However, he also claimed that he "mastered" the language and the language thus became easy for him. That's the part I felt like it's a bit hard to believe. Sure, a video game can possibly provide a decent English environment for its player, but it can be severely not enough for one to fully learn English. For example, the game setting that he mentioned was set in a period in history, and that factor along can affected one's learning if the student is only dependent on it, as the dialogue, conversation, and interactions are designed to not be present-like, and that can easily lead one to learn unpractical grammar, words (like the ones he should but no one understood), and sentences. What's more, as it is a multiplayer game, it means that there would be lots of conversations going on between players, lots of "informal" way of speaking to be exact. This kind of incomplete learning to be seems doubtful that it would be a great way to learn a language alone. 

  But for the rest of his speech, I like how his doing great things for the people here in Taiwan, who doesn't quite have as much opportunities to reach other languages. Overall, I like his speech. 

12/ 11/ 2020