noya Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 the administrator in the discord advised to write here Hello dear administrators/supports, I do not speak English well, but I am trying to learn it by communicating with others, I fully understand what you are speaking, but I can’t say much, can I play on the server? I understand all the rules of the rp, and I will play an emigrant with poor knowledge of English, so as not to strain the players, but, on the contrary, amuse them with funny situations Link to comment
Entity Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 We do not require anyone to be a native English speaker but we do expect people to be able to write correctly, use grammar, punctuation and capital letters. We do have to focus on this because we are, after all, a heavy role-play text-based English server. Link to comment
Jorgensen Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 It's advised that you're able to speak enough to be able to communicate with others. Even if you plan on RPing a character that has limited English. But, if you feel confident. Then you can try. Link to comment
Shakesbeard Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 I have learned more English by playing on RP servers than at school 1 Link to comment
Paenymion Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 I have seen people with much worse English so you might be okay. Some practical advice though: you will have to be extra careful in your behaviour, more so than somebody with good English. If you get into an OOC disagreement which leads to reporting, the other player might use your less-than-perfect English as ammunition against you and it IS something admins will pick up on. So my advice is to try to avoid even getting into those situations or if you do, just be very polite. Basically, borderline-bad English + bad attitude usually equals ban. A good attitude can save you 🙂 1 Link to comment
Petey Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Paenymion said: I have seen people with much worse English so you might be okay. Some practical advice though: you will have to be extra careful in your behaviour, more so than somebody with good English. If you get into an OOC disagreement which leads to reporting, the other player might use your less-than-perfect English as ammunition against you and it IS something admins will pick up on. So my advice is to try to avoid even getting into those situations or if you do, just be very polite. Basically, borderline-bad English + bad attitude usually equals ban. A good attitude can save you 🙂 ^. You'll eventually improve. Not a big issue if you ask me. Link to comment
For Ever Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Some people may be angry about it seeing your English be "bad" or "sub-standard" for them, but in the end, we all understand each other and even if we do not, we try to understand and see what exactly you propose with what you write. I suggest you improve yourself mostly reading and trying to understand other people. You don't have to be a phenomenal English speaker, you can adapt to what other people do and learn from it. You just need to know the basics, like how to greet someone, how to hold a basic conversation etc, but all that is easily learnable from different workbooks and even youtube videos. Link to comment
lost in the sea Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 Just keep on improving as you go. Try typing and learning new words that people use in sentences, try to make your own, read and you'll be fine. Learnt all my English mostly from SA:MP-GTAVRP anyway. Link to comment
Supernova Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 On 4/19/2021 at 11:26 AM, Shakesbeard said: I have learned more English by playing on RP servers than at school This is something I'm researching in my Master's dissertation, productive vocabulary knowledge vs receptive knowledge Link to comment
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