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Poll: Do you play language games, either for fun or to improve your skills?
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Davide Cavanna
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German to Italian
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Mondly language learning Dec 11, 2016

I find Mondly language applications can give you a good first impression of a language you do not know at all.
After that you can decide whether to pursue it further.


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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English to Portuguese
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Not very often... Dec 11, 2016

... because it's kind of an addictive little game: Letroca

 
EvaVer (X)
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Czech to French
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I answered not very often Dec 11, 2016

(thinking just of the Merriam Webster games), but I play online Scrabble all the time. To me, it's a logical game, not a language game.

 
Michael Harris
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Germany
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German to English
Language games? Dec 11, 2016

Never, do not have the time for such.

I want to change myselt to anonymous as well, how does that work?


 
Noni Gilbert Riley
Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
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Spanish to English
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Ever since I was a child... Dec 11, 2016

...I have played mental word games to get myself to sleep. Of the "how many words ending in -and/-end/-ind/-ond/-und are there" type. As I learned other languages, this extended to "how many verbs do you know beginning with b in Italian" etc. Still do variations of all, although finally in middle age I seem to have got over my problems with getting to sleep and tend to fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. Bad for my vocabulary practice, good for my health.

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...I have played mental word games to get myself to sleep. Of the "how many words ending in -and/-end/-ind/-ond/-und are there" type. As I learned other languages, this extended to "how many verbs do you know beginning with b in Italian" etc. Still do variations of all, although finally in middle age I seem to have got over my problems with getting to sleep and tend to fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. Bad for my vocabulary practice, good for my health.

Apart from this, crosswords, preferably cryptic, boggle etc. And a game we used to play at Christmas: find an odd word in the dictionary and challenge people to come up with the word immediately after/before it - the closest wins. You can't play that one with on-line dictionaries.

Edited to remove those typos.


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cloudhunter (X)
cloudhunter (X)  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 22:51
English to German
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Does scrabble with kids Count? Dec 11, 2016

I play scrabble with my kids and so I learn the 10-years-oldish

 
Seham Ebied
Seham Ebied  Identity Verified
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 00:51
English to Arabic
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Sometimes Dec 11, 2016

A game (Editor's Choice) which is part of Lumosity brain games.

 
Natalia Pedrosa
Natalia Pedrosa
Spain
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English to Spanish
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The Wheel of Fortune on TV Dec 11, 2016

Although after 8 years of watching it, it has become far too easy. Maybe I should give it a try.

Happy Sunday untranslating!

Natalia


 
Natalia Pedrosa
Natalia Pedrosa
Spain
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That must be very funny Dec 11, 2016

Noni Gilbert wrote:
And a game we used to play at Christmas: find an odd word in the dictionary and challenge people to come up with the word immediately after/before it - the closest wins. You can't play that one with on-line dictionaries.


I will give it a try too!

N.


 
Giuseppina Gatta, MA (Hons)
Giuseppina Gatta, MA (Hons)
English to Italian
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Not sure of what it is exactly meant with "language games" Dec 11, 2016

If with language games is meant something that is already there and you play it, then no. Otherwise, I used to play this game with my son, since we are both multilingual: While we talk, we try to use and mix up as many languages and words as possible, we had a lot of fun doing it with English, Spanish, Italian, some words in Japanese (for him) and German (which he doesn't speak but mysteriously enough understands, maybe because when I was pregnant I was in Germany).

Now he is in co
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If with language games is meant something that is already there and you play it, then no. Otherwise, I used to play this game with my son, since we are both multilingual: While we talk, we try to use and mix up as many languages and words as possible, we had a lot of fun doing it with English, Spanish, Italian, some words in Japanese (for him) and German (which he doesn't speak but mysteriously enough understands, maybe because when I was pregnant I was in Germany).

Now he is in college, so we can't play that verbally anymore but we do that while we chat
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Linda Miranda
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Portugal
French to Portuguese
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Not very often Dec 11, 2016

I play Scrabble with my family at Christmas and New Year. We're close to

 
Michael Harris
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Germany
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Member (2006)
German to English
Puzzled Dec 11, 2016

Why is everyone referring to scrabble as a "language game"?
Scrabble is a word game

Maybe anonymous could enlighten us?


 
Yaotl Altan
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Mexico
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Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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Yes Dec 11, 2016

Yes, I play Word Crack, which is called Apalabrados in Spanish.

 
Mario Freitas
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Brazil
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English to Portuguese
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Games?? Dec 11, 2016

Are you serious? I've been refusing translation jobs. Whatever spare time I have after eating, sleeping, fixing the house, etc., I'll use reading or watching a good movie. No games.

* 8th anonymous in a row. I think users have stopped posting questions.


 
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