D&D Teaching English?

[CéPé]

Ultradan wrote:

CéPé wrote:

Just like Ultradan, I live in Québec... Et un gros salut à mes concitoyens!

-CéPé

What part of Québec do you live? I'm in Montréal.

Ultradan

I'm also in Montréal, on Nun's Island actually (that's just south of Verdun!)

-CéPé

[Ultradan]

CéPé wrote:

Ultradan wrote:

CéPé wrote:

Just like Ultradan, I live in Québec... Et un gros salut à mes concitoyens!

-CéPé

What part of Québec do you live? I'm in Montréal.

Ultradan

I'm also in Montréal, on Nun's Island actually (that's just south of Verdun!)

-CéPé

Incredible!!! I live in Lasalle, just ten minutes away!

Ultradan

[CéPé]

Well Ultradan if you want to chat sometimes, you can have my email:

[e-mail]

See ya

-CéPé

[Ultradan]

CéPé wrote:

Well Ultradan if you want to chat sometimes, you can have my email:

[e-mail]

See ya

-CéPé

(Sorry you all for this interlude...)

Sure. Here's mine (at home) [e-mail]

(You all can have it too!)

I'll contact you next time me and my group have a boardgame day.

(And now back to your regularly scheduled program...)

Ultradan

[Gray Eminence]

I live in Hungary, and I must say that my English would be nowhere without D&D (or, to be more precise, without AD&D :-) ). RPG books in Hungarian started to appear on the market only sometime 10 years ago, and most of them have a terrible translation, so even if it costs more, I always buy the English version. And for D&D, only 3.0 was translated into Hungarian.

But it was not good only for my English, it also improved my German too. I remember when my father told me when I was 16 and I accompanied him on a business trip to Vienna: "OK, my son, if you can buy that book all by yourself, you may have it." Well, I had the book in less then 5 minutes (it was a PHB).

[Dryder]

Just saw this thread:

Yes, D&D teached me a lot and reading/speaking english was the first thing. Today I have no problem reading english books, even if I learned (a couple of weeks ago), while writing an adventure with a couple of guys from this boards, how far from being perfect I am.
Farewell2Kings, Steve Greer, GGG and especially Ashavan showed me how to shorten sentences, how to changed the flow of words, and how to come more directly to the point I want to.

Through D&D I even learned about herbs, poisons, some cultures and architecure (all out of books I've read to get some info to use in my RPGs). I am no specialist in any of the above fields, but I learned quite a bit to use it in my games!

But the most important thing I learned from D&D is TO LISTEN to others! I became a huge bit more tolerant!

[Alasanii]

Sexi Golem 01 wrote:

Whoops guess I should have read all the posts first.

Good job! Now come to my school.

Well that will be a bit difficult, but I can send you a copy of the document. send me an email at [e-mail]

Be glad to help your cause.

later

Also glad everyone else is very happy :)

[Garm Sumner]

Alasanii wrote:

Sexi Golem 01 wrote:

Whoops guess I should have read all the posts first.

Good job! Now come to my school.

Well that will be a bit difficult, but I can send you a copy of the document. send me an email at [e-mail]

Be glad to help your cause.

later

Also glad everyone else is very happy :)

I know that this thread is very old, but I'm planning on integrating some form D&D or Pathfinder into my future classroom (in teaching program right now), you wouldn't happen to still have a copy of the proposal would you? That would be awesome to look through and take some points from.

Your successfulness gives me hope! Do you still do your sessions with the kids on the weekend?

Also: Reading the D&D Players Handbook 3.5 (as well as the DMG and Monster Manual) when I was 13 years old gave me a big head start on others in Middle and high school. There are so many words, lots that people don't use everyday, that helped expand my vocabulary immensely!