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 #17 (permalink) Wed Feb 20, 2008 18:14 pm Do you like RPG games and want to improve your writing skills? |
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Underdog
You can meet me at english-test.net
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
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| #18 (permalink) Fri Apr 25, 2008 19:24 pm English Thinking Practice & Conversation - RPG Method |
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The reality is that the game will never start unless everyone is in the same room together. That knowledge is from my 20+ years' experience as an Role Playing Gamer. I am also a native English speaker in Poland. I live in Warsaw now going on 8 years. And I use RPGs to practice English: Cyberpunk 2020 for modern English usage in legal, business or medical structures/vocabulary; and D&D (or AD&D if you want the true Gary Gygax experience: RPGs from 1975) for general English structure/etymology.
The fact RPG worlds are based in fantasy/literature, signifies a great way to test comprehension. Travelling The Net in 2020 is not like surfing porn today - LOL - and it requires the ability to think and visualize in English. Students keep Blogs about their character's experiences and practice their writing also.
I have been using this RPG method for more than 4 years. If you live in Warsaw, Poland, contact me. office/at/crowcommunications/dot/com. My rates are very affordable and the experience is good fun. I even have a Polish actress in my English D&D sessions.
Google me, "Richard Whipple+rpg" and you will find much publicity about my RPG conversation practice.
I am trying to put the student Blogs onto a password protected Forum. I dislike the hassle of having to subscribe to every student Blog. This will be a one stop shop and eventually form a coherent story written in the first person. This will be the space when it gets sorted: http://crowcommunications.com/rpg/blogs It will give you an idea. (Mods - the forum is not competing for members so relax please. It is open for posting only to my students.)
fiplv.org/WC06/documentation/English/AugustynSurdyk.pdf is a link to a study on my English practice method written (in English) by a Ph.D. in Poznan because Poles LOVE academics. I am not an academic. But I know what works just the same because I just do it. |
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English Rpg Gm
I'm new here and I like it ;-)
Joined: 25 Apr 2008
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Location: Warszawa, Poland
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| #19 (permalink) Wed Jun 25, 2008 14:25 pm RPG: English Thinking Practice & Conversation |
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Just giving a shameless plug to what I do with RPGs in conversation class. I will be on a panel in Warsaw at Awangarda, 4 July 16:00. This is an RPG hobby enthusiast convention (so, yeah, Spock, Gandalf and the Smurfs are expected). I probably won't wear a tie. You can visit the site here http://www.ava.waw.pl/?a=program&graf=default&PHPSESSID=a2a1936984738766405182c4a02df63c but you will have to scroll down halfway down the page to find a panel named "RPG od strony naukowej". My part will be in English but the majority of the panel will be in Polish with important people supporting the value of RPGs in mastering language. Press may also be invited so, if you're in Warsaw, you might catch the panel on the news. Doing native English-thinking practice is a new technique and it is all mine in Poland.
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English Rpg Gm
I'm new here and I like it ;-)
Joined: 25 Apr 2008
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Location: Warszawa, Poland
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| #20 (permalink) Wed Jun 25, 2008 14:27 pm Do you like RPG games and want to improve your writing skills? |
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What makes you think that nobody reads your post?
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Location: EU
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| #21 (permalink) Sun May 17, 2009 17:11 pm Do you like RPG games and want to improve your writing skills? |
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| Torsten wrote: |
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Hi Torsten. First, let me thank you for such a great site as this one. You, and your team, have a very useful place here. I do not hang out here much but I even notice you are paying attention to those with learning differences and I am very much personally pleased by that.
You asked the question of me way back and I must have missed it. My bad. Unfortunately, as you can see, there has not been very much interest. So, apart from the kindness of yourself, no-one who has read the post found it interesting enough to comment.
Sadly, I returned today after learning that Dave Arneson has recently died. He was very instrumental in bringing RPGs to the educational curriculum. Along with Gary Gygax who passed away in March 2008, he was the co-father of RPGs. I just read about his passing in the group we shared on another social network, and I remembered about my posting here so long ago.
In a way I have lost my childhood with the passing of these two men, only one of whom I really knew. Much goodness is associated with them and RPGs in general. So I am kind of sad not to see more of a response to my post here.
Thanks again for providing this space and for your time and effort to make it the success it is.
If anyone is interested in the WIRED obituary on Dave Arneson, it is at this URL: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/04/rip-dave-arneso/ |
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English Rpg Gm
I'm new here and I like it ;-)
Joined: 25 Apr 2008
Posts: 16
Location: Warszawa, Poland
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