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    Let's talk "Language Support" - Because UbiSoft games can be incredible for education

    As the title says - I am convinced that UbiSoft games, especially the Assassins Creed series, can be incredible for education. From a historical point of view as well as from a language learners point of view. See, I had the pleasure to enjoy AC:Odyssey on Stadia. All of those accessibility options, everything subtitled, easily readable, very well voiced - really awesome! Now, we are going into a new generation. Stadia .. from a tech point of view, for now at least, seems kinda left behind. So going with my Playstation 4 (soon 5) might be the way to go. However - AC games are known for not supporting various languages in the west, including, but likely not limited to Japanese.

    Here I ask myself: Why do this? It might not be too many learners. Or not too many that really are interested in languages other then those they did grow up with. However - and this is me speaking out of experience - the number of people using games as a tool of gaining fluence in language is growing. I dunno by how much, but people get into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, they love the sound of their chosen language, they want to immerse themselves in it as much as possible, so .. why not give them the option? I mean the game already has support for all those languages. So .. why not make them available to people everywhere when those people do want to access those languages?

    UbiSoft really does seam to be aware of their games capability of educating in regards to history. But they really, really seem to underestimate their ability to play a big support role in regards to language learning as well.

    With this post, I of course am selfish in trying to convince UbiSoft to maybe implement a feature that I would really like. But maybe others do think like me, do see opportunities that come with multiple language supportet? If so, please do comment here, make this a big thread that maybe even gets an official reply. Who knows?

    Anyway, thanks for keeping up with me for one longer read and thanks for your comments in advance :-)
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    I agree this has always been something I wanted. I usually play games through in English and then French and German where available. I learned so much playing games like Mass Effect and Witcher. In NA Ubisoft is usually only available with English, French, Spanish and Portuguese unless you are on steam I think. It would be fun to play Valhalla and other Ubisoft in other languages like Korean or Japanese or Polish lol.

    I think all language dubs and subtitles should be available to all players in all countries. Why restrict language by region? We should be able to speak and learn all languages together. For ps4 Xbox these are usually separate downloads of 2 gb or more so why not just put them all in the store for free?
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    The main languages of the world are already supported. That's good.
    But expanded it to other languages is a good idea. Promoting multilingualism is my religion too
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    Do you realize that we have more than 7000 different languages in the world?
    Most native speakers speaks Mandarin Chinese. Half of the world speak Mandarin Chinese or English. Only two other languages worth mention are Hindi and Spanish. All other languages will probably die soon or later.
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    Originally Posted by I.z.i. Go to original post
    Do you realize that we have more than 7000 different languages in the world?
    Most native speakers speaks Mandarin Chinese. Half of the world speak Mandarin Chinese or English. Only two other languages worth mention are Hindi and Spanish. All other languages will probably die soon or later.
    French is expected to have more than 750,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 speakers by 2050 (depending of the sources) and thus will become world's most spoken language.
    Just saying...
    Now will it be the 1st, the 2nd or the 3rd I really dont care. It's growing. Dont underestimate the language of love, or a baguette will kill you.

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/...ks-to-africans
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uage-2050.html
    https://mynameisropiquet.com/the-mos...guage-in-2050/

    Besides, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi while important are local languages, not global. In fact, as we speak, and possibly in 2050 too, there are only three global languages: English, Spanish and French. Understand, spoken by a lot of countries, around the world in all continents.

    By 2050, 73% of the world will continue to speak their native languages, and the % of the so called main languages (English, Spanish, French) will drop from 10-12% to 8%.
    Languages are the key to the future. Knowing only one, is being ******ed.
    Kisses from Finland!
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