{"id":53247,"date":"2025-10-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=53247"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:10:27","slug":"japanese-secondary-school-students-learn-english-by-playing-hideo-kojimas-p-t-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-secondary-school-students-learn-english-by-playing-hideo-kojimas-p-t-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese secondary school students learn English by playing Hideo Kojima\u2019s P.T. demo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interactive language learning is already fear-inducing enough when you have Duolingo\u2019s Duo breathing down your neck<\/a>, but an assistant language teacher in Niigata Prefecture\u2019s Tsunan Secondary School recently decided to take this sense of dread to the next level \u2013 by using Hideo Kojima\u2019s P.T.<\/strong> demo as teaching material. As written on the school\u2019s official blog<\/a>, students were prompted to play and progress through the Silent Hills interactive teaser entirely in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By pausing the demo at certain sections, the teacher would ask a class of fifth-year students (roughly high school sophomores) which course of action to take. Everyday phrases such as \u201cwalk around the room,\u201d \u201ctake a stroll,\u201d and \u201canswer the phone\u201d were used, whereupon the students would verbally dictate what the player would do next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"P.T.<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to the school\u2019s blog, several students were \u201cstartled by the sudden ringing of the in-game telephone.\u201d-If you ask me, the jumpscares seem to be part of the learning process, as P.T.\u2019s penchant for scaring the pants off of people<\/a> would ingrain the phrases into the students\u2019 minds and incentivize picking the correct phrases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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