In my last post, I stated that gaming can have positive effects on one's vocabulary. A specific type of games who will definitely help a language learner, are word games. A crossword puzzle can be seen as a word game, but nowadays, many more animated games are at our disposal.
An example one one of those games is Word Challenge. This game can be added as an application on the popular networking site Facebook and is all about vocabulary. The player gets a set of 7 letters and is challenged to make as many words as possible with them as fast as possible. Words which you would have never expected to be English pop up and find the way to one's memory. After all, a player will need them again when the same set of letters appears ever again.
I must admit though, this kind of memory game is not the best way to build up a vocabulary. Sure, a huge amount of words passes by, but you cannot see them in their context and often don't even discover their meaning at all. So perhaps a good old fashioned crossword puzzle with only 15 words, accompanied by their explanation might do more for us.
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