Thursday, October 13, 2011

Vocabulary Practice


I am sure many of our more Internet-seasoned readers know about Free Rice. It is a website where you can answer questions in different subjects, and each correct answer gets ten grains of rice donated through the WFP.

One of the subjects that Free Rice has available is foreign languages. You can answer vocabulary matching questions in German, Spanish, Italian, French, and English (or Chemistry, Geography, or Math for that matter). If you are just beginning a new language, this can be a good way to build your vocabulary. What I like the best is that the German vocabulary also includes the case with the word, something I have seen other flash-card websites not do. The site also reintroduces words you answered incorrect more often, so that you are more likely to learn those words.

13 comments:

  1. Wow thats an awesome page, Im gonna bookmark this

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  2. An oldie, but still great. I must have donated like 2 pounds of rice (i guess, i don't know how many grains are there), so yeah i played it quite a bit.

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  3. I had forgotten all about this site... super great if you have some free time. I always feel like an idiot when I get to the really hard levels though.

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  4. This is a great thing i never knew about! definitely bookmarked

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  5. This is awesome, I'm currently learning Spanish, I'll have to try this! +followed

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  6. im german, my girlfriends italian, and i have some spanish coworkers...im thinking im gonna be on this site alot

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  7. Nice blog you have. :D

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  8. That's interesting but I wonder if rice actually gets donated.

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  9. Oh damn, I forgot about this site! Now I'm gonna spend all month on it :x

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