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If you are reading this, if you can give as much detailed answers as you can, it can definitely help me on my college research paper for next week. I hope a lot of you can aid me here.

By the way, welcome to the thread talking about the lessons gamers like some of us here on Pokeheroes can learn from video games like the Pokemon Franchise.

Before I delve into the questions, one thing that I can share to you is the concept of Tangential Learning . If you don't know what that is, it is a modern teaching approach and game designing approach where people can learn any kind of lesson by doing hobbies that they want that is "enabled", NOT "enforced." If the video game enforces learning, Tangential Learning doesn't happen. But if it is "facilitated" or "enabled". I suggest that you watch a video about Tangential Learning by Extra Credits on youtube to have more details.

Just to give you an example as to how video games have enabled Tangential Learning in my experiences, here are two examples:

a. In the Pokemon Franchise, Jirachi is one of my personal all time favorite Pokemon. Due to how curious I was on her characteristics, I searched online and found more on her cultural origins on bulbapedia. That research lead me to learn more about the Tanabata Festival of Japan which I had come to learn to truly admire its lore. As a little fun fact, just a few weeks ago, I reported on literature class about Chinese Literature and also discovered that the Tanabata Festival's original source came from a popular Chinese Fable called The Weaver Girl and The Cowherd. Another element comes fro the Regi Challenge for I never knew how to solve those braile letters back in the day where I actually had to research about Braile writing just for me to solve the puzzle vack in 2005.

b. Another video game that got me a little bit inspired to learn about some iconic historical buildings come from the Assassins Creed Franchise where I take summary lessons about the iconic locations such as the Rome Coliseum, various churches, learn and appreciate the legacies of Leonardo Da Vinci,and learn more as to what made the Renaissance such an iconic historical era.

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So now here are my questions:

1. Can you name any video game title that you played or watched a lets play on Youtube in the past that made you interested on learning any kind of topic? What topic have you been able to learn or make you search about it?

2. Have you played any video game that drove you to learn any kind of language? Or have you learned words coming from a specific field of work, practice, business, or culture?

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