One of the best ways for kids to learn is through playing games. Which kid isn’t fascinated by playing a game? It’s not the easiest feat to teach a child a new language. Learning a new language takes time and a tremendous amount of effort, but it can be done! Having your child play translation games is a fun and easy way to help them learn a new language.
You’ve come to the right place if you aren’t sure what the most suitable games might be. We’ve compiled a list of translation games your kids can play to get them started on their language journey.
Translation Games for Kids
Hangman
As a timeless, enjoyable language game, hangman is always in style. Your kids can start playing hangman as soon as they are old enough to read and write, regardless of the language they are learning.
Hangman can be turned into a translation game by simply coming up with a word or phrase in the language the kids are learning and then outlining each letter with a blank space. The kids guess letters and add them in the appropriate spaces if they’re correct. If not, you draw one piece to the man’s body. The children win if they guess the word before you draw the stick figure meeting his demise.
This is a fun way to get your children to learn new words and phrases in different languages while comparing them to their mother tongue.
Guess Who?
This game is useful in helping your kids to hone their question-answering skills in another language. It primarily concentrates on vocabulary for describing people, but even that might be helpful. In particular, if you’ve ever needed to describe someone to a sketch artist.
They can focus on different details of the pictures to describe them to the person you’re playing with. You can also swap out the cartoon pictures on the cards for celebrities they like so they can refer to their lives and careers. This can be a fun language learning game helping kids to develop more extensive knowledge about whichever language you want them to learn.
20 Things
Do you wish to test your children’s vocabulary and memory simultaneously? Here’s what you need to do- search your home for 20 basic items; these could include a ball, book, bottle, and pen.
Now arrange the items so that your children can examine them for three minutes. Next, cover the items. The twist is that children are required to write down in the second language they are learning the names of every object they can remember.
To check if they identified the items correctly, call out their names. The child who scores the highest wins!
Word Search
Have you ever considered converting the classic word search game into an entertaining translation game for your kids? Put as many words as possible into a grid of ten × ten squares. Letters can overlap to be used more than once, and words can move up, down, or diagonally.
List the words in the second language your children are learning that correlate to the words you used in the grid on the side or bottom of the page. The aim of the game is to find the corresponding words as quickly as possible. This game will help them to identify words in the second language they are learning and develop better literacy skills.
Word Unscrambler
This is another classic that will make a fun translation game for your children. Write a list of words in the second language your kid is learning on paper and scramble the order of the letters while writing.
Your kids will need to look at the letters, guess what the word is, and then write the English equivalent after each word is successfully unscrambled. Set a timer and have them compete to complete before it expires to add even more excitement.
Consecutive Storytelling
Here’s a fun game with simple rules. The first player constructs a sentence in the language they are learning. The next player comes up with the next phrase, the third player comes up with the next sentence, and so on. The game continues for as long as you can until the narrative becomes completely ridiculous! Once the story is finished, you can have fun trying to remember all the lines and translating it into your mother tongue.
A Final Thought on Translation Games
Learning a language shouldn’t feel boring for your kids. Introducing new games that will help them learn languages more fun and interactively will yield better results. These translation games are suitable for children and perfect for the entire family to participate in. If you’re interested in hiring a company that provides professional translation services for any industry, Day Translations is your most reliable and efficient option! Contact us today and let us know how we can help!