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Online Games – Spanish Games Online?
September 21, 2011 | 
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Playing online games in Spanish can be beneficial for kids and adults alike. There are numerous benefits to learning Spanish, like improved test scores for children, or job opportunities for adults. Online games in Spanish provide one of the best ways to learn Spanish, and the best part is, the best (and most beneficial) games are completely free.
First I need to explain how language is originally acquired. As a child, you picked up your first language in about two years simply by being immersed in it. You heard it everywhere you went, and eventually your brain “solved the puzzle” and figured out the language for itself. Learning your second language shouldn’t be any different!
I highly recommend starting with vocabulary games. I paid for a software program to do this for me because it’s a lot more fun, but you can create these games yourself using free word lists online. Simply find a way to score yourself or your kids based on retention of Spanish words. Try to beat your score every time you play.
A game I play with myself, and which my child has been playing now that he’s learning Spanish, is finding a Spanish article (news, kid’s story, whatever) online, and seeing how well I can translate it without errors. For example, I start with 100 points. If I mistranslate a word, I lose a point. If I leave a word blank without trying to translate, I miss two points. And so on, and so on. This forces my brain to adapt and try to figure out the meaning of words.
I also pull up videos on YouTube and play the exact same game. I listen and try to translate what’s going on. Again, I play this kind of game with my kid… and he usually beats me!
Find ways to immerse yourself in Spanish and make it fun. That way you aren’t following a lesson plan, but you are picking up lots of the language. These are some of my favorite online games in Spanish. Try them out — they work surprisingly well!
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Games – Adult Party Games
As social morality began to loosen (what many call a decline) the big rage among adults was the adult party games. One of the first ones was “Bottoms Up” but it didn’t end there. Today, there are more adult party games than you can shake a stick at. But what exactly IS an adult party game? Well, for those of you who have been living in a cave for the past 30 years, we’re going to give a brief overview of the various types of adult party games that you’re likely to find.
The first adult party games were probably the most dangerous because they involved drinking. Lots of it. One of the early adult drinking games was “Bottoms Up”. The premise of the game was basically pretty simple. You went around the board by roll of the dice and did whatever each square told you to do. If you landed on a Bottoms Up square then you took the shot glass off the square and drank whatever was in it. The variety of drinks people used for the game were numerous. Those who were not so daring would use wine or even soft drinks. But there were some pretty hard core drinkers in these games and it was very easy to get very drunk, very fast. The knock offs of Bottoms Up came fast and furious, all focusing on the theme of drinking.
But drinking games were not the only adult party games. From drinking we moved on to sex. There were about as many titles of adult sex games as their were drinking games by the time the adult party game craze got into full swing. One of the most popular adult sex games today is “Monogamy”. It was actually voted adult game of the year once. The game itself is a board game where the couple moves around the board and follows the instructions on the cards that are turned over whenever a square is landed on that indicates to pick a card. There are cards for him and her. There are also fantasy cards.
The game is a mixture of conversation and activities. Some of the activities are relatively tame while others can be quite steamy, depending on what level you play. Since the game is only for 2 people, it is usually played between husbands and wives or at least a couple who are together. The board itself is very colorful and the “track” on the board is shaped in the form of a circle or wheel. There really is no winner or loser in this game, as with most adult party games. It’s simply getting down to the object, whatever that may be for each person.
While “Monogamy” is for 2 people, there are many adult party games involving sexual activity that are for groups of people where you could end up with just about anyone in the game, even if they are the same gender. Some adult party games get pretty wild.
If you are new to this sort of thing, you may want to start slow by getting Monogamy and playing at the lowest level, then working your way up. It’s a great way to get your feet wet, among other things, in the world of adult party games.
Download PS3 Games For Free!
What happens when you go to the video game store or the video rental shop and they don’t have what you want? Or what if you find a game that you really want, but the stores still consider it popular and you pay out the nose for it. With the PS3 and the XBox 360 being the next big things, prices have sky rocketed to over $60 dollars for a new game, and over $45 for a used game. The process of downloading your games will be able to save you a lot of money. You can have games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Ratchet & Clank Future, Assassin’s Creed, to name a few, for a one time fee which is half the price of one game.
It’s a simple point and click navigation system, and makes loading the games onto your PS3 really easy. You need to make sure that you have room on your PS3 hard drive to support the games, because Blu Ray discs can hold up to 26 GBs, and some of the hard drives are only 20 GBs. And with the new multimedia features the PS3 offers, you can download more than just games, you can download movies and music to put on there as well. Imagine this scenario, you go to the video rental or the video game store, and you buy one game/movie, and when you’re done with it, take it back and get a new one for free, no questions asked. Or if you bought one game/movie and when you were done you decided you were going to take home everything you wanted for your collection, for free.
Enjoy!