Board games will teach refugee children English

With great admiration I read Victoria White’s article in the Irish Examiner ‘Don’t speak ill of Syrian refugees. Instead, learn their language,

We have developed a bilingual language learning board game that works in both directions. eg. a Spanish speaker wanting to learn English can play an English speaker wanting to learn Spanish. They will learn language and culture from each other and it’s a win win for both parties.

The game is successful, having sold 400,000 units in 28 different language combinations and used in schools, private homes and cafes in Europe.

An Arabic-English version would turn the refugees into an asset from day one.

The game takes the player from zero to fluent conversation and has the EU rating 0 to B1

Please check out http://refugee.newamigos.com/ and let us know if you have any leads that could make this vision come through in Ireland.

Lakki Patey

Founder, New Amigos

The New Amigos Group:

Calle Cuarter III

07320 Santa Maria del Cami

Majorca

Spain