Lalla Mira’s Multilingual Blog

Interesting concept and the site is very usable, this should help in attracting more people

Jad’s last blog post..30 minutes experience at Civil Status Department

@Bakkouz: And what level could you reach?

@Jad: I like FreeRice’s design, and the whole website is user-friendly.

@Bouba: Ads are everywhere, but nobody ever came up with such an idea before.

@Tazart: Allah ybark f lalla Tazart.
Walakin 3la yash?

@Diana13: Thank you! :)
I hope this website will help us both reach our goal about learning languages. ;)

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This is a brillant idea (incidentally this website led me to your blog rather than the other way round ;) that is brillantly executed, I’m only sorry I haven’t heard about it earlier (would anyone happen to know how long it has been running?) And I don’t doubt that the site has been down, from what I hear word of mouth is spreading the news like wildfire (which is awesome :D).

In reference to the reliablilty of the program, I am not concerned. I have checked it out a little and it is linked to some very large and obviously concerned and dedicated programs, and also the fact that it has a lot of major corporations sponsoring implies that is well founded.

I have always had a decent sized vocabulary, and was delighted to find that this site has challenged me quite severely :) I find myself hovering around 41-43 but have only reached a high of 45 :( I make it my aim to reach 50 at least once :D

This is incredibly addictive (SCREW STUDY :P) I have donated 25-30,000 over the past 2 days, if only I could keep it up indefinitely, but unfortunately exams will come around sooner or later.

Yes, I was trying to find out how much rice it would take to make a difference and Google liked you :P

According to their website it has only been going since the 7th of Oct. Have a look at http://www.freerice.com/totals.html
I am struggling to get my head around those numbers…talk about exponential! Now by my calculations, 40,000,000 grains would feed 20,000 people! Which is amazing because FRs sister site Poverty.com says about 25,000 people die every day from hunger, which means that if enough people (give it a week!) started clicking then we could potentially eradicate death due to hunger, and then hunger itself! And all from the comfort of our own homes, through A WEBSITE!!! Mindboggling really

Indeed, they must really be struggling if the above numbers are anything to go by!

40 for a foreigner is not bad at all, well done!

I’ll try to get there, even if I have to memorize or fluke my way through it :P Seriously though I think I can get there with some effort, already I am starting to notice my ability to pick out Latin roots has gone through the roof :) Maybe with some luck :)

Hehe it has been interesting, but I am trying to play less, and console myself my spreading the news to others :)

Thanks :)

By the way, they must have added the ‘totals’ page only today, or yesterday. On the 18th, that banner showed that ‘only’ 3.500.000 grains of rice are donated daily, and now it says that 16.000.000 was donated ONLY yesterday! Tremendous progress! Way to go FR!

@za3tar: I hope you join the campaign against hunger. :)

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Here is where I messed it up:
- My estimation is that we need 20 547 grains of rice donated daily to feed one hungry person all year long.
- On FreeRice, every word that you guess correctly is worth 10 grains, so we need to score around 2 054 *words* not grains of rice per day to reach our goal. It’s here where I made the mistake.
- My average score is 10 words [not 100, my bad again], or 100 grains per minute.
- For 20 minutes daily, we can feed one person if we work as a team of 10 persons.

Thanks a lot for pointing this mistake out, Rory. :)

Thank you Jwala! :)

I see that FreeRice got you too wondering about questions such as how many grains of rice there are in a kg of rice, and how much is enough to feed a person. I receive daily visits from people like you and me who ask such questions.

FreeRice is blooming in a surprising way! Check their totals to see how much people are donating daily. It’s amazing!

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Wow d! I never reached even 10 000 grains at one go. Well done!
Nice to discover these messages. I should try to get there too.

You nearly fed 5 persons yesterday. How generous! :)

THANK YOU! :)

Hmm! Now I don’t know what to think about that script, but it looks interesting.

I read some of your Paris stories, they are interesting. Why don’t you have a blog?

I will make a diffrence

Hey there!

I found out about this game about an hour or two ago from a friend. I got addicted before I even knew what it was really about (I’m a huge fan of words in general, and considering I have SATS coming up…!). I got over 3k grains before I looked around the site and wondered how much of a difference my playing was making. After a Google search, I got here.

Well, as it turns out, I haven’t just fed a person for a year…. But it warms my heart to know I fed someone something for a day. =) And good job with the research!

I found out about this site last night and have donated about 10,000 grains in two tries. I verified its legitimacy by following links provided on the UN website to the WFA site and from there to freerice. WFA also gives the totals received from freerice. Quite impressive. The site began on October 7, just last month and they have given a lot already. I’ve already put a link to it on my website and I plan to pass the info on about it to others, including my students.

It is good to know that they do do something at major milestones of amounts, but some of us can’t do it in one session, so a cumulative totaling method would be nice, but perhaps take up too much bandwidth.

Hi, the boys in my year 5 class found the websire when researching about child pverty. They became so committed to raising grains, we began by using our ICT lessons to play, as well as everyone playing at home and adding their totals each day. They began a campaign to get the whole school involved and we have just had ‘free rice week’. As our school runs from reception to year 12, the primary school each donated a lesson to playing and the senior school opened computing rooms at lunch time so the big boys could play. The year 5’s made badges to reward their fellow students for playing and created a ‘Rice-o-meter” to keep everyone informed of the total. To date, the boys have raised about 350,000 grains

It actually upped in Noevember 2007 to 20 grains per word :)

i did my own calculations and i can feed one person 22,000 grains of rice (amount necessary to survive) for one day by playing for 2 hours. i get 9 words right per minute, which is 562 words per hour, which is 11250 grains per hour. 1 kg of rice is 50,000 grains. 160 kg rice feeds one person for one year. thats equal to about 8 million grains of rice for one year, which is 22000 grains per day. assuming that i get 11250 grains per hour, that means i can feed one person for one day by playing for 2 hours. I am going to calculate the price of 1 kg rice, and see how much it costs. I can also find out how much rice freerice.com buys in one day. Since freerice.com is a non-profit organization, assuming that all the money goes toward buying rice, i can find out how much they are making off every advertisement. kinda cool, eh?

ive donated like almost 60k grains

i love freerice.com because its for a good cause and it benifits you. so far I’ve raised 4660 grains of rice and i played for like an hour and a half. today is my second day using the website and i hope to get more rice!