Studying for long hours and sitting at a desk can be exhausting. Playing games is one of the funnest ways to learn English. It will keep you learning while you feel excited and amused.
Using games can give you a break from conventional learning methods. Plus, research shows that humans are actually more likely to remember information learned through an entertaining process.
You can enhance your language learning by playing games and using apps. These are totally helpful learning tools for practicing and strengthening your knowledge. Besides, you won’t even notice all the learning you’re doing while playing!
There are a huge amount of English learning websites with games, but today you will learn about some options you can play with friends and family, as well as some apps you can easily access through your phone.
Let’s dive in!
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It’s time for kids
Generally, kids get more easily bored than adults. That’s why we believe learning English should be more than conventional lessons at school. We are in the era of technology, and we should use all we have at our fingertips to make things easier.
Also, kids love to share with family and friends, and what would be better than doing so by playing? Leveraging technology and outside school practices will help kids to be at their best at English learning!
We have reviewed and selected our top games for kids to learn and stay on track with English in an easy, fun way.
Fun English by StudyCat
The StudyCat apps are designed for children up to 10 years, but they’re also useful for beginners that need to start from scratch. These apps are intended to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Also, they are meant to build confidence in using a language in real-life situations.
They offer a selection of learning games and activities with colorful themes. Games include mazes, matching games, spelling games, coloring activities, and more. These games will teach kids basic vocabulary like colors, numbers, animals, etc. We promise nobody will ever get bored!
Mussila Wordplay
This is one of the best reading games we have found. It teaches children to read and spell while playing. This will help kids to strengthen their vocabulary, memory, listening skills, and speech. The complexity of the vocabulary will be increasing while they learn more and more and have some real fun!
The app is really creative. They have a colorful interface that will catch the eye of the kids!
Charades
Charades is a multiplayer acting and speaking game that can be adapted. It can be played with different modifications for a better learning experience.
You have to form two groups among the players. Usually, every child is given a word, and they have to communicate the word by enacting it. Here is where you can add whatever change you can think of: words by specific letters or groups of objects, etc. Kids must be familiar with the vocabulary to act the words out. If not, an adult may step in to help.
The rest of the players must guess. The process of acting and guessing is what gives you all the fun! The team that gets the maximum correct guesses will be the winner.
You can play this game with as little as a pen and paper or by using an app. This one is also playable by grown-ups!
Learn English For Kids
This is an interactive English learning app for kids. It is really easy to use. It helps introduce young children to the basics of the English language and a bit more. This app helps kids to feel more comfortable when speaking English.
Additionally, Learn English For Kids has a great YouTube channel for more content and fun!
For the Grown-ups!
Scrabble
Don’t you know Scrabble? This is a classic board game where players must form words out of 7 random letters per round taken from a bag of 100 letter tiles (for the English version) and then place the words on the game board cleverly to earn points.
With this classic game, players will practice their vocabulary and spelling while earning points and competing with their opponents!
Pictionary
This game is similar to charades: there will be two groups. The difference is people will need to draw the word instead of enacting it! This is a great visual game to learn new vocabulary and to laugh out loud with all the funny drawing and guessing!
Have you seen the series Friends? Do you remember the chapter when they all played Pictionary? That’s the kind of fun you may have while learning English at the same time!
FluentU
This is not a game in itself, but it is definitely a really entertaining and useful tool! It allows you to learn English – and other languages – with movies or music videos fitted out with interactive tools such as clickable subtitles and multimedia flashcards.
Fluent U is a video-based language learning program that provides personalized quizzes for users. This is a great option for grown-ups learning!
Additional recommendations
We can’t say no to these two additional friends! One is a website/app and the other is a gaming platform. Both of them are in our hearts as helpers in learning English with a high dose of fun and entertainment!
Duolingo
This is the owl website and app. Have you heard of it? We are sure it can help kids and adults develop or strengthen their English language skills!
It is a friendly space to learn with content for all levels! It also has available English proficiency testing. This is really a nice fit for people of all ages.
Digital Dialects
Although it is not a game itself, Digital Dialects is a great platform for beginners that teaches the basics of the language with a bunch of really great games. We encourage you to give it a try!
Why play games?
These games and apps will probably not replace the hands-on learning experience, but they are for sure a great tool for learning a language!
Learning isn’t restricted to the classroom. In fact, a significant part of what we learn is taken outside of school. Therefore, everything we can use to learn, including games, is welcome!
Finally, games are generally accessible anywhere. They can be played online, at home, at school, you name it!
Wrapping Up
It is not easy to choose only a few games, but the ones we have mentioned are totally worth your time. They will improve your English skills while you get entertained. The options are endless. Let’s play!