#township

You have probably seen this game before, Township. It’s one of those games where you have to build a farm and a city and you have to keep growing vegetables and making different items to keep growing. 

Well, I’m going to share with you something that I have been doing recently to learn my target language, Korean. So I can study and play at the same time

You can download this game to your cellphone or your computer. Whatever you feel more comfortable with.

This is how it looks like. You have the settings to change the language. And you have a helicopter to send items to your citizens, and this is what we are going to work with.

1.Every person has a little dialogue. So choose a dialogue, and then take a screenshot. 
2.Thenchange the language to Spanish.
3.Go to the same dialogue and take another screenshot.

4.Then you can cut the images so you only have the dialogue.
5.Paste the images on your favorite notes application. 
6. Now you can take notes about vocabulary, phrases, grammar or anything else you don’t know.

You can use different dictionaries like, WordReference,SpanishDictorLinguee.

You can compareboth dialogues and look how they translate the ideas and expressions. Of course it is not translated word by word, but the message and the feelings are the same.

Another thing I do is to memorizethe dialogue. This way my brain gets used to the words, and the expressions. If you don’t know how to pronounce a word you can go to Forvo. 

If you have more questions about vocabulary and grammar that you couldn’t find in the dictionaries, you can ask in HiNative. 

I also use Beelinguapp to do exactly the same thing. This is an app where you can find short stories in many languages.

I hope you find this useful and fun! :)

Khayelitsha. Hairbrushing. Township, South Africa, 2004

Photo:Anne Rearick