A PC game based on the popular "Unreal Tournament" is being used to teach American soldiers how to speak foreign languages, such as Arabic. Propellerheads at the University of Southern California, with funding from -- who else? -- DARPA, have been working on the simulation program, which uses virtual reality to put soldiers into situations that help them build language skills. Americans are notoriously bad at learning foreign languages (but we're really good at building and playing computer games!).
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