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Having retaken Basic 1 for French, I have concluded that actually it's not that bad, but I get screwed up most by est (and) and a (has) sounding a lot alike when the voice speaks those words

I wonder when education is going to finally start learning some things from games. What's taking them so long!

I think teachers have incorporated games into the learning process, but only the good ones. Otherwise, learning packets and reading straight from the book for all, I suppose.

I think there's so much potential there for engaging students and making learning faster and more thorough with games. Take a subject and play with it, create a game with it, and you learn it really well I think,

Yeah, I've often thought my math skills would be better if I were more into RPGs. Then again, we did have Math Blaster, but I wasn't that into it. Different strokes I guess.

It's been looked into for sure, though. One of the research papers I wrote this semester was about how uses and gratifications research is applied to studying Internet communications. Uses and gratifications is basically where they survey people to find out why they use a certain type of media, and what they seek to gain from it. One of my research articles talked about using that research method to study the benefits of E-learning (electronic/online learning) for students. 

Kids do amazing stuff on their own too, though. My mom had me edit together a video for her after one of her students made a LEGO robot that could solve the Rubik's cube. It was inspired by some guy named David Gilday, and the robot uses sensors to find out whether or not all of one side is the same color, and its arms move the cube until it's solved. 

My only real experience with edutainment was the Mavis Beacon Typing Tutorial. Aside from just drilling certain key combinations, there were games. I learned to touch type in just a few weeks and never lost that skill. It was fun too. There was Typer Shark on Popcap and Typing of the Dead of course. Those games were more visually interesting, but Mavis taught me a real world skill, and for that it gets to be best of the bunch.

I played a few typing games as well, since my mom was the computer teacher. Somewhow, I've learned to be proficient (average 40-50 WPM) using only my right hand for the mostpart. I'm also an amazing hunt-and-pecker. 

After learning it, I don't even think about my keyboarding anymore. It's effortless. 

Buena suerte con el español Joe

By the way, French has always been a bitch to me. Then again, I have some of that fault for being a bit lazy at some French classes at school.

Good luck on the Spanish, Joe? Did I get that right? I don't want to look it up yet.

Gracias, Alex-C25. Et oui, Francais est dificile. 

I'd type the correct accent marks in there, but with an English keyboard, it's a bit of a pain. lol

Yeah, you're right on that one.

De nada Joe. Oui, francais est tres difficile.

No problem, Joe. Yes, French is very difficult. 

Yo escribo blog en espanol una de las dias. 

It's actually, "yo escribire un blog en español uno de estos dias", if you meant to say it in future sence.

Thank you. I looked up how to conjugate in future tense on Google, since I'm not there on Duolingo yet, but what I was wanting didn't pop up write away, so I just said "screw it, I'll write in present tense and see if Alex knows the right way to say it." lol 

Thanks for sharing this. It looks like fun, and I've always wanted to learn Spanish. The only educational game I ever played back in school was Number Munchers. Well, maybe Carmen San Diego if that counts.

Holy crap, I forgot all about Number Munchers! One look at Google Image search and I remembered immediately. I didn't play that quite as much as other edutainment games (my mom was a computer teacher, so I played a good bit of them after school), but that brought back memories. 

I hadn't heard of it.  I'll check it out. 

I love it. I'm still frustrated that French doesn't sound like how it's written, and my mom, who was formerly a French teacher, even corrected some of my pronunciations this morning. At least I'll know how to understand and write it on a basic level, though.

I discovered Duolingo about two or three months ago when Apple was promoting it on the App Store.  It's a great little tool, and makes learning a new language fun.  I'm trying to improve my spanish with this app.

Same here. I got rusty after being five years removed from high school. 

Oh cool. Looks like I'm gonna try my hand at trying to learn Spanish...again. Thanks for the info.

Good luck to you!

I live in Alberta, it there is most French speaking people here along side a growing Philipino population. Plus there are Cree and Dene Natives peoples around my around, but I can barely speak my own language. I'll probably download Doulingo just to see how it works.

No need to download it if you're using a laptop. You can just go to the website. I want to put it on my phone now, though. My mom put it on her iPad when I told her about it.  

ewww! A learning game! take it away take it away take it away!!!

I wonder if it has khmer in there.....

Not yet I don't think, but they are planning on adding new languages.