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WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance and maybe even your parenting!
I have just discovered FreeRice.com, a delightful non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. They offer completely free educational games, with the goal of providing free education while helping to end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people. I started out with the vocabulary game, knowing that every correct answer I gave provided 10 grains of rice for free to a hungry person somewhere in the world. If you’re curious to know how learning new vocabulary can help you, consider this:
Enhanced vocabulary can help you formulate ideas better, speak more precisely and persuasively, read more quickly with greater comprehension, and be more effective and successful at your job (whatever your job is)! Freerice.com claims that after a while, “you may notice an odd phenomenon. Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words.”
In addition to vocabulary games, they offer art, geography, math, chemistry and foreign languages to play with. Give it a go and let me know how you like it!
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Another great charity site is AIDtoCHILDREN.com. It donates money to children in need through World Vision.
Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com