In January 2014 we started our Learn & Play/Skip & Pay Program. While quite a number of users took us up on our offer of free learning with regular practice, we have decided to make our language courses FREE for all users without any limitations and restrictions.
In the coming weeks we will be launching a new website, which won't have a "BUY NOW" button. It will include our now FREE 36-lesson courses, Quick Games, links to other gamified language sites, and more.
We described our CRAZY NEW IDEA in the December 2013 Newsletter. Encouraged by the many positive comments we are planning to start our Play & Learn program in January 2014.
This means that our German 1, French 1, Italian 1, and Spanish 1 courses will be FREE to all users who are committed to play and learn.
We are donating ten (10) 1-year subscriptions to one of our four language courses: German 1, French 1, Italian 1, and Spanish 1. The Giveaway ends on Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM EST.
Here are the results of our language competition in support of the Council of Europe's European Day of Languages on September 26.
All players who scored more than 500 points by September 30 received a FREE 1-month subscription to 10/31/2013 and the top scorers in each language were:
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Perfect Scores
638
695
544
673
1st Place: All with Perfect scores: FREE 1-year subscription
Arno, Carol, Evangeline, Luz, Serenity
Giovanni, Serenity
Carol, Serenity
Serenity, Sam, Carol
2nd Place: FREE 6-month subscription
Emily 634
Brad 687
Adina 536
David 651
3rd Place: FREE 2-month subscription
Anattolia 619
Vanessa 668
Claude 505
Selin 634
Congratulations to all the winners and runner-ups!
We are supporting the Council of Europe's "European Day of Languages" on September 26, 2013. We are offering a FREE 1-month subscription to anyone registering and scoring more than 500 points when playing the two FREE Scenes of one of our four languages - German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Users have until by September 30, 2013 to improve their scores!
Additionally, each of the 3 top scorers in each language will receive
FREE 1-YEAR, 6-MONTH, or 2-MONTH subscriptions respectively.
(Perfect scores will EACH receive a FREE 1-year subscription!)
Gamesforlanguage.com just added a new (free) feature on request: Letting parents or teachers monitor the progress of their children or students who are learning a foreign language with gamesforlanguage.com.
The screenshot on the left shows the scores and time a learner spent on each game and scene, information teachers and parents had asked for.
For further information, how parents and teachers can set up multiple accounts and monitor them, contact peter@gamesforlanguage.com.
Royal Baloo recently reviewed our program. The reviewer commented:
Overall, I think it's a great program. It's fun and inviting, the progress bar makes we want to continue, and I am actually remembering most of what I learned.
During the month of August, GamesforLanguage.com is offering a FREE 2-WEEK SUBSCRIPTION to anyone who scores 500 points by the end of the first 2 FREE Lessons (Scenes) of German, French, Italian, and Spanish. And if you do, you'll also receive the mp3 audio of Level 1 (Scenes 1-6) as well as the vocabulary lists of the six Scenes.
Just by playing one (1) Scene per day (15-20 minutes), you can learn over 250 new words, together with many useful phrases and sentences of our travel story.
And in 2 weeks, you can easily score 5,000 points, and thereby extend your subscription for FREE for an additional month. Read all about our 2013 LEARN & EARN in our FAQs.
The “It takes a village” blog took a look at our program a few weeks ago and the blogger's 7-year old daughter apparently got “hooked” on learning German.
The travel-story based courses also lend themselves to looking at maps, finding the cities our young travel visits and learning more about them.
Playing games and learning a foreign language would certainly have motivated our children as well - if such programs had existed a few years ago...
And yes, raising bilingual children takes a lot of effort - by the children and their parents!
MommyMaestra.com, a site of “Discoveries of a Latina Homechooler” recently reviewed our program and, naturally, our Spanish course. The reviewer found that “Gamesforlanguage is a fun way to complement more comprehensive courses and can be used as a weekly reward or incentive.”
In January 2014 we started our Learn & Play/Skip & Pay Program. While quite a number of users took us up on our offer of free learning with regular practice, we have decided to make our language courses FREE for all users without any limitations and restrictions. 
We described our CRAZY NEW IDEA in the 
Gamesforlanguage.com just added a new (free) feature on request: Letting parents or teachers monitor the progress of their children or students who are learning a foreign language with gamesforlanguage.com.
During the month of August, 
