May 22 2008
Second Language Learning in Second Life
There has been a real surge of interest in Second Life through Twitter recently. I have had an account for about a year now but only occasionally go in. I can see that there is a real potential in Second Life for education but I have not really found enough of interest to keep me going back in that regularly. Still, the other day I decided to hop on and ended up teleporting to an island on Second Life that is a Spanish speaking area. As I am learning Spanish, I thought I would head in there and see if I could try and talk to people in Spanish. I bumped into a nice guy called Angel (in real life – I can’t quite remember his SL name) who was based in Spain. We chatted for a while and he was very patient with my exceptionally broken Spanish! It wasn’t until the end of the conversation that we realised that we were both ICT advisors and were able to share ideas around that topic. I took a snap shot of us having a talk. For anyone trying to learn another language, I think Second Life has HUGE potential. I certainly found it very motivating 
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Hello Suzie
I’m very glad to see that you are exploring Second Life for your Spanish. Virtual worlds are an excellent tool in language learning and it is a rapidly growing area of language education.
SLanguages 2008 (www.slanguages.net) is the online conference for language learning with virtual worlds – It starts tomorrow and I hope to see you there!
Best wishes
Howard
Hi Suzie, next time try ‘Second Spain’ island. Lots of Spanish-speaking traffic there, too.
Kind regards from Madrid, Clint