It's always lovely to be recommended. When it's Amazon that is doing the recommending it's, well, big! KLOO has received the Amazon's Choice accolade. Amazon reserves this for: "highly rated, well-priced products available to ship immediately." Thank you Amazon. We appreciate it. You can also get the same product from the KLOO website :-) Wherever you buy from Make Life Fun.
You can do better than a phrase book Why not take a travel game that packs 6 million foreign sentences inside? Indeed, KLOO's foreign language travel games were described by Conde Nast's prestigious Traveller magazine as the Must Pack items. They also won Dr Toy's Best Vacation Game Award. 6 million sentences and loads of family fun for less than $20. Take a look at KLOO Travel Games. Then play and learn and language :-) Bon Voyage Holidays!! The Best Opportunity to Learn a Language! The Best Travel Games to pack this holiday The Secret [...]
Learn Vocabulary 1000% (10 X) faster by combining the two most powerful methods of vocabulary building. When you combine the power of Discovery Learning with placing words in context and then wrap the whole experience inside a game, amazing things happen. Picking up words becomes automatic and almost effortless. Kids enjoy learning a language with KLOO A Spanish Teacher completing a Case Study for the impact of KLOO in her classroom wrote this: “After playing two or three times with the same deck students have almost magically learned all the vocabulary, not only to [...]
Experience the Eureka moment! I am pretty sure that none of us had parents who, when we were toddlers, gave us lists of words to learn by next week. I don't think so. What generally happened is that we would point at something that we wanted to know the name of, such as a dog, and our parents said “Dog” and we repeated “Dog”. This form of learning is called Discovery Learning. It is the natural way we learned new words when we were small and is the way our brains are hot wired to build vocabulary. Using Discovery Learning creates powerful Eureka [...]
Making it meaningful – putting words into context Young Man learns speaks 11 languages fluently I was struck by the news of a young man who is fluent in 11 languages. There is a lovely video on him on the BBC where he does in fact speak in all 11 languages. It is significant that he said only one thing about what makes it easier for him to learn new languages and I wrote it down word for word. He stated: “The easiest way to learn is from context. I remember what I see or hear [...]
Build vocabulary the No 1 way? No way! Building vocabulary has always been an ordeal for many learners. Long lists of words...trying to somehow memorize them with brute force and repetition...but your mind starts swimming with all the information and you start to tire.... then you test yourself and find that the new information just won’t stick...so you repeat the process. You become more tired and before long, your mind starts to shut down. You feel deflated, demotivated and just plain exhausted. So much effort and so little reward. Rote learning from lists is still the No 1 method for learning vocabulary and, believe it [...]
How important is your method of learning? Learning a foreign language depends much more on the tools you use than your innate “language ability”. Use the wrong tools and you start believing that you don’t have the necessary talent to learn a language (when you absolutely do). Conversely, use the right tools and systems and your natural language ability will shine. Think of a golfer trying to play golf with a cricket bat. Or a tennis player trying to play tennis with a football! Crazy eh? It won't work. And it doesn't work for language [...]
6 Methods of building foreign vocabulary There are six different approaches to acquiring foreign vocabulary. The approach you use will make a huge impact on your rate of learning. As you will see, in later blogs, the method you use is more important than your natural language ability. Proven or guesswork? As you might expect with 6 different methods of learning, some are better and others and some are wildly better than others! What we share in our blog is completely researched, sourced and proven. We will help you to cut through the noise, marketing, hype and guesswork [...]
Language teachers are at the coal face of language learning - and so they know what works best. This teacher wrote a review on Amazon 3 years after she bought the game - because she wanted to share what happened when she sneaked KLOO into her classroom. Here's what she said complete with a picture of her (very tidy!) classroom. "This is such a fun and engaging game that participants don't notice that they're learning!" This is what happened when one teacher put KLOO in her classroom. If you want the same impact [...]
More and more teachers and language learners have been in contact with us about making their own KLOO cards - and could we provide them with blank cards to make them. We thought that this was a great idea. Once learners know all the words in a deck, more can be added in, so the KLOO system can help build vocabulary even further. We have created a "Make Your Own" page on our website which gives instructions on how to make the cards so that they work with your existing decks. We have also provided you [...]
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