Language games

LeapFrog Fix the Mix!
$21.99
I bought this toy for my 4 year old grandson's birthday. He is able to do the activities "solo" with no difficulty. My daughter tells me that she has to take it away form him when it's time for bed... he loves playing it so much. That's good enough for me!!

LeapFrog Leapster 2 Learning Game System - Pink
$69.99
My son has used his leapster for about 1 year now. It started freezing up 2-3 months after we bought it. This wasn't happening too much, as we would just restart it and it would work fine. I should have sent it in to get it replaces but I didn't. We are having problems with it right now as it restarts with cartridge games for some reason. I have submitted a question to leapfrog and am awaiting an answer. I suspect we need to buy him another unit.

My 4 year old son loves it and plays the games all the time in the car and at home. It keeps him busy in the car on long trips too, or if we are in a restaurant and he gets bored. The cartridge games are a bit expensive but it gives the unit some flexibility from the rather boring built in games it comes with. The games are easy to lose as well for young children, as we have lost one of the cartridge games that we bought. I would definitely suggest buying the AC unit to plug this in when you can as it goes through batteries VERY quickly. Besides the games being expensive I would suggest this unit very much. I am not sure if my problems of freezing and restarting are a normal complaint with this unit or not, but with the education and enjoyment my son gets out of playing it I will be fixing it or buying another one for him.

Language Detective
$21.99
Grades 4 & up. This excellent proofreading game helps students look for mistakes in spelling, word usage, capitalization, and punctuation. With an easy-to-follow scoring system, this self-correcting game is vital to all language development programs. 2-6 players.

100 Games and Activities for the Introductory Foreign Language Classroom
$29.95
100 Games and Activities for the Introductory Foreign Language Classroom offers a wealth of stimulating, enchanting and effective games and activities that students of a foreign language can engage in rather than learning by rote or performing drills. All exercises can be adapted to classes of any foreign language. Each activity lists its central topic for quick reference, the required materials (which are always inexpensive), the lesson objective, instructions, and spare notes. Individual activities range from simulating a catwalk from a fashion show to have students practice the names of articles of clothing, to a silent pantomime game for reviewing vocabulary, to a "total body ball" game for reviewing different body parts by calling out which parts of the body a student is allowed to receive the rubber playground ball with. Especially recommended as a shake-'em-up supplement for teachers of grade school and high school foreign language classes.