Software/Website Title: linguastars
Website URL: http://www.linguastars.com/
Grade/Age Level: All level language learners & Teachers

Language & Content:
Linguastars is a language learning website. Learners can learn Spanish, French, English, Italian, and German here. This website categorizes its teaching materials into different functions such as MFL for early learners, MFL for intermediate level and teacher training material. This website is also a user interface friendly website. As a new user like me, I can easily figure out how to interact with this website. In the greeting page, I see five fishes there and one of the fish carries a label “free previous.” Click the label and you can have a look of the website activities.

This website unlike others, focus on reading skills, you can also practice your listening skills. Materials for early learners will be easier such as single vocabulary or phrases; materials for intermediate learners will have longer sentences. Each thematic lesson will provide a various activities for learners to LEARN BY PLAY. Vivid pictures, interaction activities, and sound effects are all interesting elements to attract learners but what impressive me are the following:

• Culminating Activity- Instead of isolate activities, this website provides a culminating activity “End of Unite Test,” which combines several activities together to evaluate students’ learning.
• Flexibility- Some of the games provide widely flexibility. For example, teachers can pair students and play “Noughts & Crosses,” or Teachers can be the host and the whole class work together to play “Hangman” or “Word search.”
• Worksheet- This is especially useful when there are no computers or internet accesses in classrooms. Teachers can easily print it out and give students as a class activity. Or, teachers can allow students to play games on-line either at home or in the school time so that students will be more familiar with the work sheet.
• Listening comprehension- Usually when I find website like this, they hardly provide listening comprehension, but this website provide role play and listening comprehension check. I tried to learn French in the intermediate level material where I found a role play game. One click and then I can listen to the conversation sentence by sentence. I can even click the question mark so that I can check the meaning in English. I think this is useful especially for students they don’t have chance to listen to the standard French or any other languages.
  
  This website is definitely a great website I ever seen. I will highly recommend you to have a look or even apply this website in your future class. One thing I would like to remind everyone is that it’s not a free website. You have to pay £200 (+VAT). However, it’s an annual site subscription fee and allows all teachers and students from one institution to access the resources both from school and home.