KLOOLearn French Board Game “Race to Paris” | Fun for Family Kids Adults | Coloured Vocabulary Word Cards Make Sentences in a Flash | Language Teacher Resource | Boardgame 1–4 Players

My daughter (who's 8) and I have just played 'Kloo Race to Paris' for the first time and loved it.  She really enjoyed that she could score points with each card she played,  and also additional points by knowing the meaning.   It was great that as the word bank grew,  she was able to be more and more successful at this second element,  and could subsequently win points with cards that couldn't initially be translated. She liked it when I landed on a hotel square and couldn't  translate something, and therefore went backwards! When we'd finished playing she said 'can we use a different deck next time? '.  I'm really thrilled she enjoyed it and wants to play again.  We BOTH learnt something and I found the phonetic pronunciation really helpful - I always faltered a little with this at school!  I like the fact that although we have the game board we could easily just play with cards & like the suggested card games on your website videos.  l think this game format is a fantastic way of learning & so much more fun & interesting than workbooks or DVDs (too passive!). And one 'lap' of the gameboard didn't take too long; so easily retained my daughter's interest until she'd made it to Paris!I'm looking forward to playing again; I can see why it's won so many awards!

This is a great game for learning. It is probably best for beginners up to intermediate level. My son is doing GCSE this year and he is both enjoying it and finding it useful. It is a fun way to do some revision as well as learning new vocabulary. By making the sentences it helps with the word order, eg adjectives after the verbs, and the basic set can be expanded to practise different tenses. With repetition the speaking of French seems more and more natural and shyness about speaking a new language will be reduced. We also use it to help writing by making the sentences, translating them then writing them out in French to improve spelling. It is not in itself a French course, but is a very useful addition to the armoury, and one that our son plays with us very willingly, and that is not something we can say about all his studying. I am glad we bought it, and for the price of less than one lesson with a private teacher it is well worth the money.

It's a great game for gaining confidence to speak French. It help you to make sentences with words and you need to translate them. There is 4 set of cards with different topic and you can download more card. I am French and my children (12 and 10) are very shy to speak French so that is perfect for them. I would say it is also perfect to revise for gcse in a fun way. I am a French teacher and will definitely use it for my students

We love this game. It even had my 10 year old (a reluctant learner) grabbing for a dictionary to translate words. By the end of the first game he and his brother (12) knew so many new words it was unbelievable.We have been away for the summer to Africa. Sand and space and no internet access. Guess what we did in the evenings? - Monopoly, Uno, Chess and Kloo! Yes it rated up there as one of the favourites of the holiday, who would have guessed. Wish learning a language had been this much fun when I was young.I have my eye on the Spanish one next as I've been brave enough to enroll in a Spanish language course and my kids (12 and 10) are doing Spanish this academic year at school.It arrived promptly and customers service is personal and prompt.

I’m not a beginner but I would think it could be very helpful. The fact that it’s a board game makes learning much more entertaining, I’m using it to wake up very rusty French and whilst I know most if not all the vocabulary it is making it active rather than passive knowledge.

It has often made my unpopular with my children that I always sneak in the odd educational board game, however when I purchased KLOO's Learn to Speak French Language Board Game - Race to Paris they were actually really happy! This is probably the best educational game we own and I am seriously pleased that I brought it.Learning languages is an important skill so I decided they could start with French as they have some knowledge from school. I was also interested to see how the Kloo game which is a completely different approach to how languages are taught is schools would work for my children. The game itself has a standard counter / squares format and you have to race to the centre of the board using cards to make sentences as you go. There are special squares that add to the fun by bringing new elements into play, but if you want you can ignore these for a slightly quicker game. I think by now we have played it every which way possible and we still love it. The children get really competitive, and this means they are switched on and learning because they need to try and remember the vocabulary translations in order to score the most points.There are 4 different decks of cards and essentially you can play with any number of decks, opting for a broad learning experience or focusing in on one area, the choice is yours. The game is really versatile and even with a great set of rules the children were suggesting new ways to use the board and cards, the best thing being they are continually learning and with repetition it started to stick really quickly. We even had the odd french sentence spoken out of context at the dinner table or in the car.If you find the rules difficult, which to be fair we didn't at all, but if you do, there is a great little video on their website to help you out. The game has different options which mean you can have a shorter game or longer depending on your time limits, and the fact that my children often opted to play the longest version speaks volumes about the quality and interest levels of the game.There is no doubt their french has improved as a direct result of this game, and when the comment was made at parents evening I was straight in recommending the Kloo products to the teachers as a more modern enlightened way of teaching a foreign language. Whether she will take my advice remains to be seen, but my children have definitely benefited and improved their french thanks to this game.