This WB was a little difficult for me as I did not take
either French or Spanish. For this area
of the country, I think a German WB would be interesting. I forged ahead with the French WB. I found I could search using English search
terms. I searched animals, habitats and
houses. The results where about five to
a page with the different source types listed on the left hand side. What I really found interesting was at the
bottom of each article was a link to the same article in WB Kids. This allowed me to check if using an English
search term was helpful in the French WB.
Though I did get some results in the French version, when I searched the
same word in WB Kids I received many more results. I searched for cat in the French version and
got 6 results and in the Kids version and got 70 results. I really liked the
option to see the English version of the article. This would be very useful for those students
working on their foreign language skills.
I then searched using the
pictures on the homepage. It took a
while but was able to find an article specifically on cats which I did not find
in the term search. I think someone new
to the language would be able to use the pictures to search more effectively
then the terms. As one learned more of
the language, then term searching with French words would be more effective.
Hi, Shelley! Thanks for giving the French version a whirl. In this & the Spanish version, you get best search results by typing in the search term in the language of the version. Obviously, if you don't know the word, you'll be stuck, and that's where the visuals come in. You are right about people new to the language using the pictures!
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