Forgive my lengthy silence--gasp--have I really not posted since September?!? Be that as it may, blog checks are speeding breakneck pace towards us, so I'll try to drudge up some leftover creativity. Humm...no artistic enthusiasm surfacing. Aha. Below is a link my fellow APers might be interested in:
http://www.freerice.com/
This website began about a year ago. It works like this: you get quizzed on obscure vocabulary words, and for every word that you get correct 20 grains of rice gets donated to disadvantaged people in third world countries--thus the website's name. The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose unobtrusive ads appear on the webpage, so everyone benefits. Hungry people get fed. Advertisers drum up business and receive a charitable public image. And your vocabulary increases. So why not play?
3 comments:
Interesting. I just accumulated 1500 grains. There were lots of words I didn't know or had never even heard of, so I was guessing a good. This is where all the Latin study helps, to be sure.
Hey, what a great site -- and David, I'm very impressed. I petered out around 300. I'll have to visit again.
Hey thanks for posting that, it's a very cool site! It helped me with my Spanish, too!
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