Often times when thinking about learning a new language people generally imagine sitting in a classroom with thick textbooks and learning around their contemporaries , grinding through their homework only to wake up and grind through work the next day. Eeeek ! This blog post series is dedicated to showing you Alternative ways to improve your English comprehension and grammar in the most unexpected ways you might enjoy.

Once you have you base English level like A2 and you know some phrases , some grammar , and you have your beginner vocabulary you can start exploring more fun ways to improve such as games , one such game is Sims 4. Now you might say “Games? what am I a child? I don’t have time for such nonsense!” Hear me out.

Benefits of playing a game about an hour a day :

• Massive increase in vocabulary– you will be surrounded with English , from process of building your Sims( a person you choose to create and control) home – to cooking breakfast/lunch/dinner in-game streams of new vocabulary entering your mind. And because playing game doesn’t strain your brain you can get all the benefits without feeling exhausted as you possible would feel had you been sitting with dictionary to get same benefit.

• Comprehension– through context. Sims is full of real life situations as well as fictional ones. You will be required to call plumber to unclog your toilet , you will go to work and have co-workers visit your home. You will host parties and date in game. Through all of those situations you will be presented with “actions to take” options within what makes sense in that setting.

• Grammar– Now speaking of grammar you won’t be learning it in game the same way you would be learning it in our online class there wont be present continuous , present simple or future simple tables. However you will be learning grammar through context. Say your job in-game provides requirements for promotion, if you fit those required then you will be promoted. “If” and “then” are classic form of conditionals. Will be is future tense. Just like that you brain has imprint of those sentences and when you learn grammar in the future your brain will re-call countless examples of what those sentences look like, because you had built that base of examples through playing games =)