Pedro's Adventures in Spanish [Learn Spanish]

Игра по большей части нацелена на пополнение словарного запаса. Вы просто проходите квесты и все. Из плюсов: абсолютно все, включая меню игры, на испанском. Также присутствует озвучка. Можете кликнуть на любой предмет во время сцены и закадровый голос его произнесет. Из минусов: если вы хотели прямо с нуля тут чему-то научиться, то не получится. Диалогов много, чтобы понимать хоть что-то, у вас уже должна быть база, по ощущениям уровня около А2. Повторюсь: игра нацелена на пополнение словарного запаса. Но с другой стороны - если вы уже знаете времена и понимаете хоть какую-то грамматику, то вряд ли вы здесь откроете много новых слов для себя. Но для практики и просто чиллового времяпрепровождения - игра отличная

If you are questioning whether to get this game, just do it! We need more thought out games like this to learn languages.

I learned about this game from Dreaming Spanish and got it because I wanted a little variety in my comprehensible input options. I had about 300 or 400 hours of input when I started playing. I'm a pretty casual/infrequent gamer in general. I had a blast playing this game. Nothing in it it super sophisticated, but the characters and gameplay are fun. I Loved that there was no translating between a native and target language and the experience was completely immersive. The language was simple and accessible to an advanced beginner. I think it might be overwhelming to an absolute beginner, but for me it was perfect. I learned a TON of vocabulary and it was a super nice change of pace from watching videos. I did get stuck two or 3 times and had to refer to a walkthrough on YouTube to get past a couple of the obstacles. I was pretty thorough in exploring everything it took me about 18 hrs to complete the game. I'm sure a more experienced focused gamer could complete it much more quickly, but my primary goal was language acquisition and I wasn't in any hurry. I would love to see more games like this one.

I won't spend time here evangelizing for the comprehensible input method of language learning. You can do your own research on that and decide on its merits for yourself. If you [i]do[/i] use the CI approach, and this is at the correct level for you, I wholeheartedly recommend it without reservation. If you are a kindred point and click adventure game geek, it could hardly be more ideal. This is only a "language learning game" in the sense that it provides a large amount of interactive comprehensible input at a late beginner/early intermediate level of lexical complexity, but is otherwise nothing more nor less than a charming and well-executed little adventure game. This is exactly what CI is meant to do: engage you with material IN your language rather than ABOUT your language, and keep it entertaining enough to maintain focus and stave off fatigue. I have done a fair amount of research and I'm not aware of any product that directly competes with this one: Most games that purport to be for "language learning" utilize conventional instruction methods like vocabulary lists, flash cards, clozes, etc and contribute little more than time-wasting brightly colored wrappers for these materials that actually makes them even less effective in terms of efficiency. On the other hand, in principle any game in your target language could be used for input, and many fully-voiced narrative games (especially AAA titles) [i]do[/i] have multi-language support. However, they are usually written at a [i]native[/i] level and thus are only appropriate for advanced students (for CI to be effective you must be able to understand or infer at least 90% of what you hear, according to the best available research). Games like Stardew Valley can be great at teaching a huge number of common nouns, but don't help with pronunciation, and the level of dialogue and other text varies, so that each game must be evaluated on its own terms. Publishers provide lexical scores for scholastic books, but no such thing exists for games. As you can see, most of the games that are commonly recommended can be quite suboptimal in one way or another. That leaves seeking out fully voiced textually rich games in your target language that are aimed at kids or have very simple language for stylistic reasons, but which an adult would actually want to play (Peppa Pig anyone?) As you can imagine, this is a small pool which is pretty difficult to search (but please recommend some to me if you know any!). SteamDB search tools are not quite up to the task, and the AI slopification of the web makes using a search engine to find editorial lists of recommendations actually written by humans with something between their ears next to impossible. The pressure to market games internationally means studios will often do an English-only audio track even when it is not their native language (or even the language the game was originally written in), which is a sad commentary on the cultural and economic hegemony of the anglosphere, but I digress. The really clever game designers find ways to exclude language altogether. So despite games being an ideal vehicle for comprehensible input, it's actually very difficult to find games that are appropriate at lower levels. All this means that this game is surprisingly unique and extremely useful if you are in the target demographic, and I would love to see the developer apply this formula to a whole series of adventure games in this style. Minor criticisms: 1) Fullscreen can only be enabled using a keyboard shortcut (alt+enter). This is likely an unavoidable constraint of the game engine, but the shortcut should be clearly described on the title screen rather than left to the user's own research. 2) I encountered repeatable memory leaks that seem to crash the game after a couple hours of continuous play; this is pretty inexcusable but it is mitigated by the fact that the game seems to autosave with every screen transition, so you never lose any significant progress.

My family lived in Spain for a year, and this game was perfect continued practice for my ten year old daughter. Highly recommend this game for A2/B1 speakers!

amazing game to learn spanish.... I loved the story and how it was a point and click game (easy controls)

This game is great! Not for someone who just started learning (unless you want a real challenge). I have some basic spanish down and still have to look up a bunch of words, haha. But that's how I know I am learning! Immersion is the best way to improve your foreign languages and this game focuses on that. The pace is a slow as you want take it with text that stays on the screen so you can really pick apart the sentences as far as you want to. The conversation is generally simple but the vocabulary is diverse enough that you'll be learning new words. There are some good puzzles not related to language, too, which I always enjoy. Language would be easier and more fun to learn with more resources like this! I already suggested this game to everyone I know learning Spanish

There's nothing else like it!

a fully voiced/narrated medieval fantasy point and click game with plenty of detailed input for spanish learners. perfect supplement for any normal studying. there's also french and english versions of this game.

This is actually pretty fun. For someone who only knows basic Spanish, this game is easy to play and I follow along with the Spanish used in the game pretty well. The graphics are excellent and the animations are great. This has been a good way to explore a little more Spanish and cement what I already know. The Spanish used is very simple, so don't expect anything complex. This game is useful for people who feel comfortable reading simple children's books in Spanish, such as the Curious George series. It's not to the level of a novel, so if you can read the Curious George series in Spanish, you can read the text used in this game. Just make sure you have some basic reading ability or you will get lost, as the entire game is in Spanish. However, everything is labelled with Spanish words, so if you look at anything in the game, such as a tree or an object, the game will tell you what the word for it is in Spanish. That feature will help grow your vocabulary quickly and easily. Anyway, it's a nice little game, with very simple and easy to play game mechanics where you move from one scene to the next while interacting with the environment. Very fun and good for practicing simple Spanish. A tip for total beginners wanting to play this game: Learn the basics about the language with an APP on your phone, then get some bilingual children's books in your native language and study them until you are comfortable. I recommend the Curious George series as a starting point, because the series introduces you to basic and repetitive language that actually gets you understanding Spanish without frustration. Other children's books may confuse and frustrate you, as they will likely contain more random and specific words. The Curious George series is simply great at covering what you actually need to know to succeed in a language. For English speakers, Curious George has a wide selection of bilingual books in Spanish, so it's a great way to begin your Spanish journey. But once you've read some Curious George books, you should be able to take on this game without a problem. That's how I learned basic Spanish, and I play this game pretty much just fine, I think. When I encounter words I don't know, simple assumption helps me along enough to get through it.