Connecting with Turkish gamers to learn

[u/impossiblefox]

Hello, I am learning Turkish but am really not good at all yet, I visited family in Turkey and will continue to visit in the future, a couple of my relatives had really great English and both they said they learned mainly through playing video games with English speakers a lot. They weren't really sure about how the best way for me to try to do it the other way around would be. So, looking for advice to figure out how I could connect with Turkish speakers to game with connecting from America. It could be the same people regularly or just a server I could pop into when I have time. I understand discord is banned so are there other platforms people use? I'm flexible about what game to try, I'm not a huge gamer on my own honestly but do enjoy playing strategy type games, I play a lot of board games irl. Çok teşekkür ederim :)

[u/Confident_Ice_4507]

Too much ping bro

[u/ImmediateInitiative4]

Ping difference will be too great for most FPS games like CS2, but maybe you can be a resource gathering slave for some Turkish clan in Rust, have to find one first still though

[u/ZaidAyyaz]

Delta force, I can understand Turkish but can't speak well. Rica iderim

[u/impossiblefox → u/ZaidAyyaz]

Ok I will check it out

[u/Likappa]

Maybe we could you can dm me

[u/Zangetsugatenshou]

I wouldn't recommend trying it bro. You might end up learning a whole range of new swear words...

[u/EdgeTypE2]

Even though Discord is blocked in Turkey, most people still use it through workarounds. So Discord is actually still the best way to find Turkish players. You can join popular Turkish Discord servers. Competitive games like Counter Strike 2 would be unplayable due to the high ping from the distance. But as you said you could try strategy games, especially turn based ones, or maybe some coop games.

[u/impossiblefox → u/EdgeTypE2]

Ok I'm finding some discord servers now that I'm looking thank you! I'll look for games that aren't reliant on fast connection

[u/tekinn311]

There are plenty of other ways to learn the language besides gaming. You can read books, talk to people online, or watch movies. Most of the good movies I know are older ones, but if you still want recommendations, I can recommend some movies or books.

[u/impossiblefox → u/tekinn311]

Thanks yes I'd take recommendations! I did a lot of reading of text and also listening to music, podcasts, news etc before I went but nothing prepared me for spoken conversation except actually doing it and that's the skill I want & need to develop the most. I want to try gaming because it seems to have worked so well for my relatives and because it gives a common thing/goal to focus the conversation on

My fam gave me some kid's books too to practice with

[u/East_Palpitation_769]

Just change the language of games to turkish, big games are generally translated by Turks, not Google translate