This is a neat website (www.verbix.com) if you like to explore languages and find similarities between language families. The website says “This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages.” You can put almost any verb from many languages and it will conjugate it for you. There’s even a language guesser. Just type or paste in any text and the program will guess the language. That’s not something I need every day but it has come in handy a few times.
This site could definitely have some excercises added to it. However, I think it is doing what they intend -- conjugating verbs. I don't think a lesson could be built around this site, but it could be used by the student to check parts of their work.
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Hi Brett, looks like that site could be handy. I was hoping to try it with Korean, but didn't see it on there. Have you tried a lesson based on this site yet?
I haven't used it in a particular lesson. But I do let my students know about it.
I can't think of a way to build a lesson plan around it. I've only been able to give it to my students as a tool to use when their book is insufficient.
Verbix was my lifesaver when I came to Sweden 6+ years ago. I can't recommend the verb conjugator more highly! When I wasn't sure of a verb, or of spelling, or of inflection, verbix solved the problem quickly. I actually printed out each and every verb I looked up over the first two years and kept one page sheet in a notebook in alphabetical order. I could flip through the pages once in awhile to review the verbs, and I could consult it easily when I wasn't on the computer (but perhaps on the telephone!) Rather than having students simply memorize conjugations, they should use this tool whenever they want to write or speak something and are afraid of getting it wrong! That's basically what I did every time I sat down to write an email during my first year on the job here.
Mary,
That's pretty much what I have the students do -- use it for looking up a particular conjugation.
You've given me an idea though. My students keep a notebook with a vocabulary section. I could have them print the conjugation each time they visit verbix and put that in their vocab section. Maybe even highlight the conjugation they were looking up.
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