WordChamp is one of the most amazing language tools I have ever come across. My students have never had an easier (or more enjoyable) time learning new words and conjugating verbs. They enjoy the website's instant feedback, its audio components, and its intuitive interface while I enjoy how easy it is to keep track of their progress.

I truly love WordChamp's versatility. Flashcards can be set up to teach basically anything. My native speaker classes have benefited from a variety of exercises I've created specifically for them. Everything from tonic syllable identification, word syllabification and accentuation, sentence completion, cultural questions, and even listening comprehension questions can be set up via WordChamp.

Thanks to WordChamp's easy importation system, transferring and adapting exercises to WordChamp has been a snap. As an added bonus, WordChamp allows me to save these exercises and utilize them for future classes.

WordChamp has significantly reduced the time I spend grading and correcting papers. We cover significantly more material and students do substantially better academically. Hats off to WordChamp's creators!

WordChamp is the most versatile, efficient, and popular online FL tool I have encountered in my 15 years of trying to successfully integrate technology into the teaching and learning of foreign languages. I particularly appreciate the interesting and demanding collaboration with the WordChamp staff: without question, a curious if not unique bunch of talented ‘computer geeks’, seriously and passionately dedicated to the student and teacher of foreign languages, to FL pedagogy in general, linguistic and cultural proficiency in particular, to today’s curricular demands, and - of course - technical efficacy.

How can you not love a teaching resource that encourages students to become responsible and independent learners? I've been amazed and delighted at the lists and exercises my students have designed for themselves and their classmates with WordChamp. My students in Intermediate and Advanced French eagerly devote more time to vocabulary learning with less fatigue and higher retention than with any other method I've tried. WordChamp makes it easy to track progress — I can quickly see which words and expressions are still causing problems and target my lessons precisely to my students' needs. WordChamp is easy to use regardless of one's level of computer savvy.

Wordchamp's unique ability to integrate seamlessly into our curriculum and offering portable technology to our students has set the linguistic bar even higher. Our students are energized by the prospect of improving their fluency from home and at school. Gone are the days of apathy among students 'forced' to take a second language. Now, we have students who are keen and ready to accept the new challenge. Wordchamp has provided me with the most incredible tool for measuring success. The course management tool allows me to offer tangible feedback to parents and administrators about the effectiveness of this online tool. Thank you to the Wordchamp team for bringing foreign language instruction into the new millenium!

I am pleased to extend and share my experience in using wordchamp.com as one of my Swahili teaching resources. I started using WordChamp in January 2006 and have been amazed at how it has enabled students who had problems mastering Swahili vocabulary do so in a very short time. One of my students commented "WordChamp is the best thing that has happened to me in my many years of language learning". I also commend its hosts for the superb support they give language instructors.

I love WordChamp and so do my students. My elementary class really came to rely on it and it made classtime much more efficient because we didn't have to pause for people checking in the book's glossary for the vocab. The students overwhelmingly loved using WordChamp. I found the variety of drill methods great because they could work on their listening skills as well as their reading skills. I was also thrilled that I could get vocabulary lists customized especially for my classes and textbooks. I don't understand why every language teacher isn't making WordChamp a part of their curriculum.

I have been using the WordChamp website since February of this year (2006). I initially began using it with my Year 10 students for just vocabulary revision, but now I also have them using it for listening practice for pronunciation, kanji revision & grammar, and I have also started my other year groups on it. It is extremely easy to use and the best aspect of the website is that you can make "sets" of flashcards, dividing them into themes or units of work (or whatever else suits your style of teaching). My students love using the website as it makes the repetitive aspect of vocabulary and kanji learning a lot more fun. With the "course management" section, I can keep track of who has and hasn't been doing the revision and it is so detailed you can even see what words students have had the most difficulty with. Another bonus is that students can make their own sets of flashcards and share them with others. The fact that the website is free for high school age students and below is absolutely amazing and if you have college-age students who have to pay for use of the website - it is well worth the money!

I've been struggling for a long time to help students expand their vocabulary. I think that using WordChamp this year actually made a difference. They seem to respond well to assignments that give them instant feedback. As for me, I especially appreciate the wide choice of drill types and the whole audio component.

Student comments from my first-year German course reflect the program’s versatility to accommodate different learning needs. Students particularly liked the audio recordings of each vocabulary item for practicing pronunciation. In addition to using the audio and testing resources, some students availed themselves of the extra features in the program such as the verb conjugation supplements. The reading sections with online access to annotated versions of German magazines helped make challenging authentic texts more accessible to the beginning learner.

The ability to get an instant mouse-over translation of an unknown foreign-language word from any webpage is a fantastic learning tool that WordChamp makes available free to all language learners. In the past, however, I was often frustrated by new (to me) words that did not yet have an English translation available, particularly in the less commonly taught languages such as Portuguese. The latest version (October 2006) of WordChamp's web reader, however, now makes it possible for all users to add their own definitions that are then instantly available to all other users of the web reader. This provides great motivation for students to provide new definitions and for teachers to add them to target texts or create assignments in which students provide missing translations for a given text available on the web. But most importantly, allowing user translations should help to rapidly fill the remaining holes in WordChamp's already extensive dictionaries, making WordChamp's web reader an increasingly useful and indispensable resource for foreign language learners.