I am really sold on the experience of playing multiplayer video games with someone who only sort of speaks the language you speak and vice versa.
It is hilarious, wonderful and goofy experience that encourages both people to play with a language in an unintimidating way since with a good pinging system like apex legends has you can basically get away with grunting with different degrees of panic in your voice if you have too. Anything else is a bonus.
In the middle of a gunfight if you yell "behind you!!!" in a state of wild panic neither your or the teammate is going to much care about pronunciation or grammar. Having indepth conversation is not necessary and can sometimes just distract you.
It is interesting that video games allow us to play with anybody in the world but we still treat different languages as isolated silos instead of a fun opportunity and challenge to showcase how we are all the same shitty meatbags.
The medium of team based video games also provides a perfect way to establish a mutual trust in communication. Even if you are awful at a language if you keep being a supportive teammate, players who can barely understand you can be assured that you are communicating in good faith and not just making fun of them or being a dick, which removes a lot of anxiety.
No matter how badly you bungle communication, if you try hard to be a team player your teammates likely wont care.
@Alonealastalovedalongthe I usually communicate through a combination of spin around in circles and hopping up and down. That's faster for me than trying to type without a keyboard and people can usually figure out the intent regardless of language.
