  Made for the US Military, the Tactical Language & Culture Training Systems teach you what to say, how
to say it and when to say it in Iraqi Arabic, Pashto and Sahel French.
Trainees learn while having fun by playing immersive, interactive courses
based on 3D videogames that simulate real-life social communications involving
spoken dialogs and cultural protocols. Lessons focus on skills relevant to common, everyday situations and tasks.
Cultural awareness covers Iraq’s and Afghanistan’s non-verbal gestures and norms
of politeness and etiquette that are most critical to communicate successfully.
Trainees “win” the games by correctly speaking to and behaving with the
computer-generated, autonomous, animated characters. If the animated characters
trust the trainee, they cooperate and provide the answers needed to advance in
the games. Otherwise, they become uncooperative and prevent the trainee from
“winning”.
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The games have no shooting; trainees must communicate — not shoot — their way
to “winning” the games.
Trainees start learning functional communication skills within a few hours of
play. From the first lesson, they listen to and speak in Arabic and Pashto using
headset microphones, getting immediate feedback and guidance. Many rate the
courses better than instructor-led classes.
The courses are not simple entertainment videogames nor “repeat after me”
training programs. They are “serious games” that combine patent-pending
technologies, including computational models of language, culture and learning;
artificial-intelligence-based psychological simulations and Social Puppets™
Animations that dynamically control the unscripted, autonomous behavior of
the games’ animated characters; and contextual, speaker-independent speech
recognition models for non-native speakers.
This game has some fairly high system requirements.
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