Vorteile / Nachteile

In our conversation yesterday J correctly used these concepts ("advantages" / "disadvantages") in his own conversation for the first time. I've been actively seeding them for about a year and a half (here and here). 

We were discussing the various strengths and weaknesses of various World of Warcraft classes.

Relative clauses

This morning during our library chat, J was killing the relative clauses. While describing the various tests he accomplished in a videogame this morning, these kinds of sentences were veritably streaming out of him: 

Ich habe alles geholt, was ich holen musste.
Ich glaube, das war der erste Test, den ich geschafft habe. 

I was especially excited about that masculine accusative singular relative pronoun, especially in combination with subordinating word order. There were 3-4 examples of this. I don't believe I heard a single error in basic grammar and syntax. 

By the way, the videogame was "School of Dragons," based on the movie How to Train Your Dragon.

In his description this morning, J was also using a lot of terminology from this book we have just acquired and been reading. 

So today was a very good example of how books + videogames can be used to leverage a lot of active L2 production. I've just ordered a large German World of Warcraft book in order to better be able to do this with that game.  

World of Warcraft quests as bedtime reading

Tonight we read through a couple of quest chains in German that J did together with my wife earlier in the day in English. 

Turns out the quest descriptions, as well as other game information from various sites (tonight we read about dwarves and shamans, since today he started a dwarf shaman), also make excellent bedtime reading. Since quests are, in effect, stories he has "lived" himself, he has a lot to say about them, and he listens with great attention, investing in his future adventures in the game. Again, pure L2 acquisition gold!

Pure L2 gold: World of Warcraft quests in German

I was just lamenting that World of Warcraft doesn't have language settings other than English, because the quest descriptions are linguistically very rich, but too complex for me to spontaneously translate well. Then it occurred to me that there may be a site on the internet where they are translated in to German. Lo and behold, there is, at 

http://de.wowhead.com/quests 

So I pulled up the ones he is working on and read them. They are very well done: 

In our subsequent chat, J was immediately using the vocabulary from the descriptions. Pure L2 acquisition gold.

Update: for bedtime I re-read and we rehashed the four quests in German we did this morning.