Learn French Board Game - Race to Paris (All 4 Decks)

Just getting used to the game, but seems very good

The website is very clear and your costomer service agent Mr Andrew Finan has been very kind and has quckly solved some problems about my delivery

Fantastic! As Advertised - you really can begin playing and enjoying it without any French knowledge.

The game is perfect for what is aimed. It clearly achieve it's goal which is, familiarity with everyday dictionary and sentence structure. The last is by far the most useful and rare to see in board games. It lacks in areas like variety in word and tenses but that is out of the designer wishes for that game. I would like to see similar games for b2 to c1 level, to aid language learning.

Fantastic, fun, game. Fantastic product. I love card and board games, and have been wanting to start learning French. This game is a quick fun way of combining these two, and learning useful French. It has a great combination of luck and skill too. Super quick and easy to pick up!

Price and shipping were very reasonable in comparison to North America. It also arrived very quickly from the U.K. I would definitely buy from this vendor again. It's been a pleasure!

A brilliant resource! I purchased this because we are having a family holiday in France later this year and wanted my children (aged 9 and 7 years) to learn some French before we go. We home educate and have been using various other resources to teach French, but the children have learnt more vocabulary from this game than anything else. I was initially concerned that it would be too difficult for my dyslexic child who struggles with reading, but with a bit of support from me she is able play too. The game is so cleverly designed and I particularly love the fact that the children are learning vocabulary within sentences rather than just single words. It's also lots of fun for adults, unlike many children's games!

Grumpy boyfriend had more fun than I did. After I was super excited and he called it silly once I got him to start playing he had so much fun constructing sentences and guessing the meaning (complete begginer) that he wanted to play three games in a row after winning (without the extra rules cuz I know french).
Very fun, love the other card game types suggested on the extra cards.
Certainly got my not interested bf to go through all the cards later on to show me how many words he can guess the meaning off

I am using the game with a range of different ages and abilities. Fun and educational. My students are developing their vocabulary and their understanding of French syntax

Love it. Love it. Love it. It is perfect for our American learning French as a 1st grader.

The game needs to be played frequently in order for it to really impact on learners' language acquisition, so it is hard to see how it could fit in to lessons in most schools as there is usually a very full curriculum. That said, as an activity in an extra-curricular club, or as an occasional treat for students, this makes a nice change from other activities.

When playing with younger students you need to explain that, for examples, the nouns would need an article in front of them, so a little grammar knowledge is required from the lead player.

A fun resource for French learning groups. I have been using the cards on their own with my U3A French Conversation group, and introduced them to the accompanying board this week. People very much enjoy using it. We’ve started off with the most basic version of the game as the instructions seem a bit complicated to get my head around. But I hope to gradually add in the remaining rules.

Excellent Product! I have 2 children and they love the game. We all look forward to play together as a family almost everyday! We are all learning the words quickly and the sentences are easy to develop, even for the young one.

Fun for Learners of all Levels. This game is without a doubt the best Language learning game I've ever used as a Teacher of Languages - we've got a whole cupboard full of expensive alternatives that fail to deliver what this game does in bundles; fun and learning at the same time. All the learners (including my own kids, aged 8 and 11), that I've played it with it have loved it, maybe because it's accessible to everyone whatever their level and satisfying because it allows you to forget whatever worries you might have about not being able to produce anything meaningful in French. It just allows you to get making sentences and using the language. You know you are on to a winner when your pupils turn up to lessons asking "are we playing kloo today?", and at a recent parents' evening I got told that one of my Year 8 pupils had Kloo for their birthday as it was top of his list! I use the board in a carousel of other activities or use the cards as a reward or extension activity; they are great as an additional tool to my teaching.

In the box you get a board, 4 cars to move around the board and 4 decks of cards, of 64 cards each. The cards are also available to purchase individually. There is one on the theme of "People", the second is about eating, the third on everyday places and the last one on everyday objects. You can use the cards with the board or as a stand alone game. Game play is easier to understand than explain - luckily the Kloo website, which also contains extra cards to print off, includes videos which explain the game really simply. It's easy to pick up game play and there's no feeling of failure as you play because everyone can score points. It quickly gets quite competitive and is totally engaging for pupils and adults alike.

The basic idea is to discard cards by building up sentences, starting from a red verb card - if you don't have a verb you just discard one card. The aim then is to translate the sentence, or as much of it as you can into your first Language and scoring points for points' sake or to move around the board - all fully explained in the series of videos. Making sentences sounds tricky but clever design of the cards make it child's play - as you can hopefully see from the real example in the photo at the bottom of this review. Each card is colour coded so red is for verbs, nouns are blue and connectives are green and so on. A red card will have arrows on it showing you what could come next in the sequence - you can't go wrong! The words at the top of the cards have a phonetic transcription underneath them and also at the bottom of the card are translations into English from other cards meaning, if you keep your wits about you as you play even without referring to a dictionary (allowed in the game) you may find yourself recognising and learning new words. There's a good mix of cognates (words that are similar to English words) but also plenty of key vocabulary for each topic.

I've watched pupils play (and found myself joining in), with both the board game and just the decks. The board provides added twists for four players as you move around trying to get to Paris with a little plastic car and finding yourself being asked to translate, but the cards just by themselves can be played with in multiple ways either by groups or individuals. Everything is well made - the cards are proper coated cards and seem to be standing up well to enthusiastic use by my pupils. It all just works and is a successful game, it's very clever and totally absorbing. The game works equally well at home and in a school setting. It is accessible for beginners but equally, and in part thanks to the free expansion cards on the kloo website, interesting for those who are more confident in French too.

With my "teacher hat" on I think the game ticks all the boxes in the new curriculum where's there's a real focus on translation and transactional French. It's great to have in the classroom as an activity for reward, to encourage those who struggle with a Foreign Language but, equally, to make French accessible for those who find it difficult. As a mum I love the game too because I actually find it fun to play (even though I have a slight advantage in translating!) - the luck of the draw and the fact that you can level the playing field by using a dictionary means I can still find myself being soundly beaten by my kids.

I have no reservations wholeheartedly recommending this game - Fun for Learners of all Levels. I genuinely think it's one of the best learning aids I've used in my classroom, it can be used in so many different ways. I'm passionate about teaching and learning languages and this game just makes sharing my love of French and conviction that it can be fun just that bit easier. Every French classroom needs one, it's as simple as that!

I bought this game for my French I classroom, not really sure how well it would go over with my students. It took just a few minutes to explain the rules and my students were building sentences. The best part for me is that the phonetic guides are so good that all of my students have been able to read their sentences with a better accent than when they try to sound out words themselves. There's a nice amount of cognates to English included, which builds confidence when working with a new deck. Expansion packs, please!

Best language learning tool ever! As a French teacher, i am always looking for different material to help in my students motivation. Kloo was played by adults as well as children and they all enjoyed it very much and learned a lot from it. THANK YOU!

Started using Kloo Race to Paris with my son who is about to start GCSE French. It's beauty is in its simplicity - great game and very educational.

I bought Race to Paris to help my 12 yr old daughter with her French at home. It's such a clever design in that you really don't need to know anything to start playing and you learn as you go along so the whole family can join in. It's highly accessible and a really fun way to learn! Customer service with Kloo has also been excellent.

I’m not a beginner but I would think it could be very helpful. The fact that it’s a board game makes learning much more entertaining, I’m using it to wake up very rusty French and whilst I know most if not all the vocabulary it is making it active rather than passive knowledge.

It's a great game for gaining confidence to speak French. It help you to make sentences with words and you need to translate them. There is 4 set of cards with different topic and you can download more card. I am French and my children (12 and 10) are very shy to speak French so that is perfect for them. I would say it is also perfect to revise for gcse in a fun way. I am a French teacher and will definitely use it for my students

I bought Kloo French Decks 1&2 for my 10 year old son who is learningFrench at school. We played the game over Christmas and had a lot offun with it - a lot more than we thought we would for an educationalgame! The game was so easy to pick up and we were learning new wordstogether from the start!

Absolutely fantastic game! My daughter's dad speaks french and my daughter is learning it, so when he comes round we play this. It's great fun, and excellent for learning french! I really hope they bring out new packs that you can add! It says in the instructions that you are not supposed to mix up the 4 card decks, but last night we played with 2 decks up and it was even more fun than usual - you still create grammatically correct sentences, but now they can be quite bizarre and hilarious. Like for example "we spoke to the happy biscuit." etc. My daughter had extra fun always trying to choose the cards that would make the most bizarre sentences. :D

I bought this game with the hope of helping my family learn some French before we went on holiday to France - and it worked a treat! My son aged 10 , myself , my husband and other son aged 5 all had great fun constructing the often hilarious sentences and even the little one managed to absorb the French, repeating it in his little cute accent at random times! Thank you for a great game and I would really recommend it for making French fun.

Received my order very quickly. My kids 7 and 9 enjoy playing this and using the word bank to score points. This game keeps learning fun. Very happy with it.

I have purchased the Kloo Race to Paris game and it is a lovely way to make French fun and interactive for pupils. Encouraging pupils to build sentences in a simple and effective way that helps them retain the rules of word order. Also, very easy to incorporate all 4 skill areas through use of the game by getting pupils to say their sentences whilst having others translate. Get them to write down the sentences they build and work on improving them later. An invaluable learning tool for linguists at all levels!

My son has huge problems with spelling and is struggling to learn French despite a good ear and memory. He fails vocabulary tests every week despite hard work & revision. He wouldn’t let us intervene with the school so in desperation we bought Kloo Race to Paris. It has really helped. Thank you. His eight year old sister has also (accidentally!) learnt French as she wanted to play.

We love this game. It even had my 10 year old (a reluctant learner) grabbing for a dictionary to translate words. By the end of the first game he and his brother (12) knew so many new words it was unbelievable.We have been away for the summer to Africa. Sand and space and no internet access. Guess what we did in the evenings? - Monopoly, Uno, Chess and Kloo! Yes it rated up there as one of the favourites of the holiday, who would have guessed. Wish learning a language had been this much fun when I was young.I have my eye on the Spanish one next as I've been brave enough to enroll in a Spanish language course and my kids (12 and 10) are doing Spanish this academic year at school.It arrived promptly and customers service is personal and prompt.