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For German learners and teachers - language facts, grammar, dictionary, verb conjugator and lots more!

GConjugo is free software for learning to conjugate verbs in several languages, all in a simple and appropriate to the level of user knowledge.

web app to practice verb conjugations in spanish, italian, french, portuguese, catalan and galician.

online games to practise the basics: greetings, numbers, time, days and months, to be and to have, fruits and vegetables, colours, numbers, animals, present tense verbs, clothes, infinitives.

In fact, some of the greatest obstacles to world-language education are parents who recall their own miserable experiences. Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills. "Language teaching in the U.S. has been ineffective," Stewart says. "We start it at the wrong age. Teacher skills are not great. There's a focus on grammar and translation." The result: "Adults who took three years of French don't speak a word," she states.\nBut the trend toward competency and away from conjugation is helping create a new generation of language learners, one that gains real-world skills with many practical applications.

the key here lies in the paragraph I clipped: the focus should be on competency rather than on conjugation.

Object Pronouns: Video here In English: me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them 1- THINGS it: le, la them: les I am reading an email: I am reading it Je lis un email: je le lis (the pronoun before the verb) Je lis une carte: je la lis J'ai reçu une lettre: je l'ai reçue J'ai reçu les le

up to 12 faces die-could be used for making up sentences e.g. 1=personal pronoun 2= verb etc...

A superb site for creating a range of English game and activity sheets to use in your class, including word and paragraph scrambles, matching pairs and much more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English