ShonnyS wrote:when i played suikoden for the first time, the game was so cool, so interesting and awesome that i took my english dictionary and began to play because i didnt know a thing about english you know, a THING...
Hahaha, same here!
Suikoden series encouraged me to improve my english. Every time I understood a sentence, I felt so happy and it made me remember the vocabularies.
Aside of English, Suikoden series also taught me to see things from different points of view
I believe in you..always
Because we shared so much..
-Suikoden2Opening-
Yeah it helped improve my english. But i already was able to defend myself with it (I guess it was Zelda in the Super Nes my point for learning english )
Suikoden IS educational. But not for only learning english. It teaches you how to overcome hard times not giving up, it teaches you hate is an unnecessary and dangerous feeling, it teaches you to ignore diferences since all of us are different and a long etc...
Suikoden hasn't helped me that much. I learned the word entourage. Yea, me! It has, however, greatly improved my seven-year-old brother's reading skills. When you learn to read, you learn by reading stuff. For my brother, that was mostly Suikoden IV. Seeing the improvement has been darned near miraculous. It isn't that Suikoden is the only method by which someone can learn, but it is one of many.
I guess it gave me some ideas for storyline and characters but honestly I read a lot of fantasy novels anyways. Although, the suikogaiden games gave me push to learn more kanji. I'm not really into manga and my parents never sent me to Japanese school (a school set up to help Japanese kids living here to learn Japanese grammar and such) like some of my other friends.
strange that so many people did not know the word entourage pior to suikoden. If you want to improve your vocabulary, you might as well read a story book. I thought final fantasy uses some pretty good words occasionally.
Yeah, I read plenty, but I simply hadn't encountered the word "entourage." And Final Fantasy has the occasional vocabulary word as well. I learned both escutcheon and subservient from FF Tactics. One's vocabulary increases in small ways.
Well, personally, Suikoden has helped here and there. It gives you various insights in a very interactive method. It's as if you're reading a good book and actually learning from it xD;
But then again, RPG games in general have quite the extensive vocabulary. Not just Suikoden.
Let's say I wouldn't be communicating with you in this language without the game. XD
Suikoden, SII especially, played a VERY IMPORTANT role in the enhancement of my English lang. knowledge. When I ws around 8, I played SII endlessly- repeating it all over again without tiredness and that's why I excel in Spelling tests till now! Those English texts were a big help!
*sigh* thanks to this thread, I knew how much Suikoden did to me.
I will bring Lordlake's fate... to the entire Suikoden World! weeeeeeh!
well the game's probably not exactly accurate, but it does give you a general idea of the real suikoden mythology. i love mythology, and maybe it was partially suikoden that made me realize that?
math and science? not really, but they are inspiring stories.
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