{"id":896,"date":"2010-10-08T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2010-10-12T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:59:16","slug":"online-vocabulary-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/online-vocabulary-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Online vocabulary learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing games is a fun way to improve in your target language. Someone recommended to me the language game website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldialects.com \">Digital Dialects<\/a>, and I thought I\u2019d share the tip!<\/p>\n<p>The site features interactive games in 60 languages, from Afrikaans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/zazaki.htm\">Zazaki<\/a> (spoken by Zazas in eastern Turkey). As well as the languages you\u2019d expect (French, German, Spanish), it has some other more unusual ones \u2013 Tibetan and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cebuano_language\">Cebuano<\/a>, to mention a couple. <\/p>\n<p>The games are suitable for learners at beginner to intermediate levels, and are fairly simple, focusing on word categories such as colours, food and clothing. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldialects.com\/Spanish.htm\">Spanish section<\/a>, which I\u2019ve been using, there are also a couple of activities for more advanced learners and some verb conjugation games. <\/p>\n<p>Give it a try, and I\u2019ll be on the lookout for some more online game sites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing games is a fun way to improve in your target language. Someone recommended to me the language game website Digital Dialects, and I thought I\u2019d share the tip! The site features interactive games in 60 languages, from Afrikaans to Zazaki (spoken by Zazas in eastern Turkey). As well as the languages you\u2019d expect (French, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,40,44],"tags":[336,872,867,868,802,871,869,870],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-language-acquisition","category-words","tag-afrikaans","tag-cebuano","tag-digital-dialects","tag-games","tag-language-games","tag-tibetan","tag-vocabulary-games","tag-zazaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}