Green Flamingo

As you may know, I love to review. I love to share my opinions, and I love to see people benefit from ideas and advice I give them. If you would like a review, just contact me (if there are too many, I may have to deny them. They are completely free, maybe in a while I will start charging $$ for them). So, I am introducing you to something I happened to find today: Free Rice.

I think Free Rice is a good program for many reasons, which I will reveal.

How it works - How Free Rice works is that you play a vocabulary game to donate rice. You may wonder how that happens, so we take a look behind the scenes.

There are sponsors, rice companies, food companies, grain companies or whatever that actually give the rice. But to make them do that then you have to get a word synonym correct to donate the rice, and this makes them deliver it (after a certain number of grains have been donated).

How the game works - the game is simple, but difficult. I will give you an example instead of trying to explain.

Indigenous means:

type of tree

native

carriage

wise

You would click on ‘native’ of course, and at the top after finished loading it would say ,”Correct! Indigenous = native.” At the right the little bowl would have little grains of rice in it and on the side it would tell you how much you donate. As you travel through the words the words get harder as your vocab improves. You also are assigned a vocab level, and every few times you get  word right the level increases and every time you get a word wrong your level decreases. I have donated over 3,000 grains of rice and reached a level of about 30.

Why I like it - Free rice is helping to raise rice for those who have barely any. This makes me very happy, for I saw pictures of what some families owned all together, some only a few bags or bowls of grain, a table, a shelter, some blankets,  and that was pretty much it - for a family of about six. I also like Free Rice because it will improve your vocabulary, which can be a very useful thing.  I also like that you do not have to create an account to do this! It will remember you though, if you set it to remember certain things in the options. It is also free!

What I don’t Like - what I don’t like about the program itself is that sometimes the game cheats you. Sometimes there are two words that mean the same thing and only one is right. Some of the words are very confusing, and I hate it when I get a word wrong.

Review - I like the site, the project or program, and the site design. It incorporates green into the design and up close of rice. The site is laid neatly, and not hard to navigate around. The project was craftily created, having people have fun and learn something while donating rice to those who have none. It is not one of those things where you pay some money to “help feed this family type of thing.”

How you can help - you can join in this for a little competition, see how many grains of rice you can donate or what level you can get up to. This will help feed someone who barely eats in a week what you eat in three bites.

This is not something I was paid to do, I just felt like sharing this program with you.