Hello all,
Just as the title suggests, I was wondering if the game VR Chat would be any good for practicing speaking and conversing in Japanese. I have a vr headset and I’ve played VR Chat before although only in English. Does anyone have any experience using vr chat in a way that’s helped their language progress? Are their specific worlds designed for Language exchange as opposed to just hopping into Japanese region worlds?
I’m not very good at conversation yet, but I can read fairly well. I meet with a private tutor once a week for grammer/conversation practice and I was just thinking that maybe VR chat could be a fun way to try to improve my speaking/listening abilities.
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My opinions towards vr chat interactions are roughly the same as my opinions towards real life interactions. I think the improvement they directly led to was very minimal in my case since I’m more focused on just moving the conversation along. The motivation boost to improve from having good interactions was the main thing I think it contributed to my studies personally.
I think there are some language exchange specific worlds but personally I would just go to Japanese worlds. Some of the more popular ones were harder to enjoy since there was what felt like an abundance of low level Japanese learners. It became very hard to have interesting conversations with people since it would be either “talk normally about interesting thing and essentially leave them out of the conversation or have them stopping you asking you to explain” or “合わせる to them and their level”.
My best experiences on there are just when I found a couple cool people and we peaced out to a private world to talk, or we went somewhere secluded.
Anyways, rather than wonder about it I would just hop on and try it out.
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