How playing games is driving academic excellence
As exam results roll in, games are shown to boost performance In the UK, it's the season for academic results...students opening letters followed by squeals of delight or moans of despair. There is a lot of post [...]
10 Compelling Reasons to learn French
English shares many words with French. Indeed French is considered to be the biggest influence on English with up to 30% of English words stemming from French origin.
How 70 words turn into 7 million sentences
That's over 7 million sentences from about 60 words. That is why Einstein said such growth is the most powerful force in nature...and we should harness it.
Video Game v Board Game – how board games fought back
For a long time board games were in terminal decline. "The Video Game killed the Board Game Star" as it were....except it didn't. Board games have more than bounced back. In 2009 board game sales started to rise again - and have been doing so every year since.
The many surprising benefits of playing board games
WHAT CAN THE HUMBLE BOARD GAME DO FOR ME? Those old board games are sooo last century right? Adults learn French by playing KLOO's Race to Paris Board Game Well no, they're really [...]
Helping your child learn a language – when you’re not fluent yourself
Research has shown that even if you don't know a second language, learning alongside your child is often more effective than your child learning on their own. What's more, with the right materials, it's actually easy to help your child really improve - and a lot of fun too.
Helping your Child to Revise for a Language
Kids can see learning languages very differently...for many it's a drag, boring, too difficult, unnecessary. Unless..... Unless, Unless...
Research on how Games improve Language Learning in Classroom
A Study of The Power of Games to Motivate Learners Teaching languages is no easy task We have a lot of empathy with language teachers. MFL is, without doubt, a difficult subject to teach - more difficult [...]
Why students are learning languages faster with this game
"My students beg to play this game" That's what Debbie, a US Spanish Teacher, said about KLOO on Amazon. She also has a blog where she writes about KLOO: why she "fell in love with it!"
What aspects of language do you learn when playing KLOO?
When we created KLOO we wanted a game that went beyond the basics of language - a game that helped learners to really start speaking the language properly; a game that used words as building blocks and rewarded players for making proper sentences; a game that made learning easy and fun.
