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 Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:15 pm
Not sure how many of you have heard of this, but:
Want to feed the hungry, gain some knowlege, and have fun all at the same time? Play this addicting little game: Free Rice. Each time you get a correct answer, 20 grains of rice are donated to help feed hungry people. The rice is paid for by the banner ads at the bottom of the screen. It's all explained on the website. They have lots of categories: English words, English grammar, French, Italian, German, Spanish, countries, captals, math, even famous paintings.
It's really fun, and it's a great way to help people and help yourself, all while killing time. Figured everyone can use that, especially this time of year.
www.freerice.com
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:15 am
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It's fun. Especially the French one. 'Tis easy. I'll have to mention this to my French teacher next time we're in the computer room.
EDIT: My brain is turning to mush. xD
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:04 am
Oui, je pense que le Francais est tres facile. Je le jouerais pendant mon classe de Francais, mais nous utilisons jamais les ordinateurs dans cette classe. sad
Of course, I'm missing some accents, but I'm not sure how to do it on gaia.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:22 pm
I understood all that. biggrin
Mais je ne sais pas comment dire "understood" en francais.
And I can't do the accents either. Well I can, but I'm too lazy. xD
EDIT: I don't think "francais" has a capital when said in French. Not sure though, so you'd probably better check it... unless you know you're right. xP
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:37 pm
Just donated 10,000 grains of rice.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:37 pm
Way to go Venat!
Well, "to understand" is the verb "comprendre" conjugated like "prendre" if you know that one. It takes avoir in the past tense and the past participle is "compris." Or would that instance need the imparfait tense? Because then it would be "comprenais." I guess it would be, since you understood the whole time, not just at one moment. Sometimes it's so hard to tell with those....
And it probably doesn't have a captial, I've just been having to write a lot of countries in English for a project, so I was sort of in "captialize all countries" mode. biggrin
P.S. I decided this thread fit better here in the subforum, since it's a game and all.
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:28 am
Imperfect is "used to do" or "was doing" so it would probably be perfect tense. Or maybe present as I still understand it now? ...Lol, my French teacher says she'll shoot anyone that says "comprendu"... XD
Good thinking. And well done Venat.
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:17 pm
Who knows. Tenses were never my strong suit, unfortunately.
But I understand your teacher's feelings. Comprendu just sounds... weird.
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:23 pm
freerice.com is really big at my school. Anytime anybody is done with their work in the library, they 9/10 times go to freerice.com. It is fun. You can improve your vocab while feeding a child!
BTW, I hate foreighn languages. I had to cram half a semester of Spanish 2 in 2 days (but exams for each section were in that cram, too!!). I finished with an hour left sweatdrop If there were no such thing as conjugation, it would be fine. But when there are millions of ways to say the same frickin word, it sucks....
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:35 pm
My friends and I were playing it in class this morning, actually.
And yeah, conjugations can be hard to remember. In English we usually only have two for each verb, with only third person singular being different, typically having an s on the end. Plus, there's only one word for second person, so it's weird in french having to figure out whether I need "tu" or "vous."
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