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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7297557" data-attributes="member: 6777696"><p>The difference is, if you know it's preferred to present actions as, well, actions, that never changes. It's a constant. If you try, you will succeed. If you are making assumptions, even if you are trying to make good ones, you will end up making bad ones, because you don't know what the players intentions are if they aren't telling you.</p><p></p><p>I mean, I'm not saying everybody should do it Iserith's way. His approach seems very .. committed. But it is consistent.</p><p></p><p>I used to work at a residential language school (students lived on campus in dorms). We had students ranging from college age to professional (lots of law enforcement and state department types) to retired. The program's schtick was that, for 10 weeks, the students spoke nothing but the language they were learning. Even if they had arrived at the beginning of the program without a word of the language they were studying, once we started classes, all conversations, in or out of class, had to be conducted in language. Students speaking English could be expelled from the program. This was extreme, and often absurd, but the benefit was that, after several weeks, students achieved a kind of immersion they wouldn't have achieved just speaking Russian in front of their teachers during class. And yes, a good portion of them went a little bit crazy by the end. (Imagine thinking only in Russian, except the only things you know how to think are, "I have two brothers. I like soccer. I want to eat.") But it wouldn't have worked without that enforcement that <em>you have to do this.</em></p><p></p><p>That said, most people do not choose to go through this experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redrick, post: 7297557, member: 6777696"] The difference is, if you know it's preferred to present actions as, well, actions, that never changes. It's a constant. If you try, you will succeed. If you are making assumptions, even if you are trying to make good ones, you will end up making bad ones, because you don't know what the players intentions are if they aren't telling you. I mean, I'm not saying everybody should do it Iserith's way. His approach seems very .. committed. But it is consistent. I used to work at a residential language school (students lived on campus in dorms). We had students ranging from college age to professional (lots of law enforcement and state department types) to retired. The program's schtick was that, for 10 weeks, the students spoke nothing but the language they were learning. Even if they had arrived at the beginning of the program without a word of the language they were studying, once we started classes, all conversations, in or out of class, had to be conducted in language. Students speaking English could be expelled from the program. This was extreme, and often absurd, but the benefit was that, after several weeks, students achieved a kind of immersion they wouldn't have achieved just speaking Russian in front of their teachers during class. And yes, a good portion of them went a little bit crazy by the end. (Imagine thinking only in Russian, except the only things you know how to think are, "I have two brothers. I like soccer. I want to eat.") But it wouldn't have worked without that enforcement that [I]you have to do this.[/I] That said, most people do not choose to go through this experience. [/QUOTE]
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