I was on the Clinton School of Public Service blog yesterday and found the neatest thing: freerice.com.
FreeRice.com is a click to donate or CTD site with twist: vocabulary lessons. Each time you correctly select the meaning of the given word, 20 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Programme. When you get the definition right you get a harder word (and the WFP gets rice). Get it wrong an you get an easier word. It's addictive, so be careful. As with other CTD sites, advertisers donate money for rice based on how many visitors test and improve their vocabulary. Yesterday 369,007,280 grains of rice were donated.
Every little bit helps. So visit freerice.com and learn a little to give a little. It's a win-win! Have fun!
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Words from my most recent session:
horseplay
voluptuous
philatelist
consumptive
fecundate
wizened
heterodox
badinage
falciform
cognomen
tautology = redundancy (I missed this one)
Grains of rice donated: 200
Here's the story from the Christian Science Montitor. It is perhaps not surprising that the developer of freerice.org is the same guy who did the quintessential CTD site: thehungersite.com.
Enjoy!
Want more ways to improve your vocabulary? Check out the ideas here. Now imagine how much rice you'll be able to donate! Have fun!
Improve your vocabulary.
I love freerice.com.
I discovered it a few months back and since then I have learned hundreds of new words and given thousands of grains of rice.
Marie
Excellent Maria! It's win-win. Thanks for your comment and for reading. Please come back again soon, and spread the word.
Thanks BlueSky for the link to aidtochildren.com/. I'll do a post on it soon.
I hope you enjoyed your visit to So What Can I Do. Please come back again soon, and spread the word!
Research has shown that the best way to learn vocabulary is to see the word used in context many times. Each time we encounter a word, we incrementally build word knowledge. After many encounters, we find that we naturally understand the word.
There's a site that mimics the natural way the brain learn words. It's called dictionarysquared and the homepage is a cool reference that finds contexts. The vocabulary building program is now only available in the SAT's, but check it out anyway, there are words on it I've never even heard of.
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