Remember Typing of the Dead? The House of the Dead-inspired typing tutor that ate Mavis Beacons' lunch (and brains) because it had zombies? Typing of the Dead is why I can type over 24 words per minute, but only if I'm about to be eaten by a marauding corpse. Anyway, if you take that concept and apply it to teaching language, you get English of the Dead, a no-doubt Japanese only DS game featured in the latest issue of Eastern gaming bible Famitsu.
In the game, you slaughter zombies by translating Japanese into English. As the undead hordes approach, panels with Japanese text appear over them.You write the English with the stylus, and the zombies die, shouting out the English phrase you just entered.
I am praying--seriously, I'm on my knees right now before my altar to Baphomet--that the franchise expands into other languages. I can't wait to brush up on my high school French by killing ghouls, if only for the fun of watching them scream "Je m'appelle Etienne!" before they expire.
IGN.com: Learn English Through Zombies
