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Newcomer : A Language Learning RPG

✨A language learning adventure where you must learn and communicate in a second language to save the kingdom and befriend its people! 🎮

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Developer
Jason Kappes
Publisher
Jason Kappes
Release
November 20, 2023
2 years and 255 days ago
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Mostly Positive65 reviews78.5%

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About the Game

Language Immersion: Newcomer is a language immersion experience for beginners to learn and practice 9 languages:

  • Latin-American Spanish

  • French

  • Italian

  • German

  • Castilian Spanish

  • Brazilian Portuguese

  • Turkish

  • Dutch

  • Tagalog

Results: In your adventure, you will:

  • learn and communicate fundamental survival phrases with a variety of in-game NPCs

  • gain exposure to thousands of new words

  • start to identify correct pronunciation

  • learn beginner vocabulary

  • encounter grammar naturally

As a Newcomer, you are given a phrasebook and a quest...

You encounter target language speakers and start to communicate using basic phrases...

Your ability to translate your target language makes it possible to understand your new language...

As you travel through new areas, you review vocabulary by battling hostile creatures...

You start using your new language to complete conversation tasks by discussing a variety of people, places, and things within the world...

You level up and unlock new words and phrases, enabling you to engage in deeper and more nuanced conversations...

You start to utilize intelligent translations which explain individual words in more detail...

Your new language takes you to many parts of the open world...

Ultimately, you must learn your second language to defeat the Dark Crimson...

Play and learn many languages...

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