Many of the kids today are failing english because their vocabulary has been comprimed. Words such as alright, and converse has been changed to fit todays way of speaking. Alright has been shortened by many and pronounced as ‘aight’ and people no longer converse, they conversate. I was an English major, I love the English language so naturally my skin crawls when this beautiful language is butchered.
My daughter wanted to get into an honors English class, so she asked me to help her. I was more than willing to do this, but I didn’t want it to be boring for her. So, I searched the web for a program that would keep her entertained and increase her vocabulary as well. I found this program call VOCABOLY at (http://www.vocaboly.com) . This program offers more that 12,000 words all with pronunciations, meanings and phonetic symbols. It also helps you prepare for the SAT, GMAT, TOEFL, GRE and also offers and ESL program.
This program is compatible with microsoft WIN 98, Vista, 2000 and XP. She loved it and to her delight she was able to get the grades necessary for her to get into the honors class. I would suggest that if you need to build your wordpower, or if your child is preparing for the SAT’s, this program will definitely help.
