ANY LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH

In the years since Project HappyChild first went on line in 1998, we've received many requests for free worksheets for learning English. Often from the tiniest of villages, in countries ranging across most continents .... Africa, Europe, Asia, South America ..... and later, from Iraq, where children were being repatriated from many different countries. The biggest question, here, was 'how could this be done'? But we've found a way.

Using the category structure originally created for our "French" area, we've uploaded a whole set of any-language-to-English worksheets - 800+ free worksheets (linked below), across the whole range of vocabulary and a wide selection of verb conjugations. It only requires *one* fluent English speaker (a native speaker of any other language) to "fill in the blanks" for all the words on the worksheets and photocopy them for immediate use by children in schools locally.

We've taken this a step further, though - language professionals across the world have pitched in to help, and each translated or checked an entire database of all the verbs and/or vocabulary content. So we already have over 7000 dual-language worksheets on line, for the languages linked above. No-one gets "paid" to help - all these people have given up their time and energy free of charge.

If you're a native speaker educated to degree level, or a language professional, and would like to help with translation or checking, please do get in touch - penny2012 (at) happychild.org.uk .

Please see the Translators page for details of more dual-language worksheet sets currently in progress, and of many more languages we're happy to add worksheets for, if enough people volunteer to translate and/or check the content.

Each English worksheet is designed to print onto a single A4 sheet [using IE4/IE5 browser setting for "medium text"], and may be used as a non-commercial education resource, free of charge, provided only that each worksheet is printed / photocopied without modification and includes the whole page as it appears on line.
[N.B. - In "My Computer - Internet Options - Advanced - Printing", de-select "print background colours and images"
so as to be able to print a clean black-on-white copy of each page with less use of your ink cartridge.]

It is recommended, when printing, to use the option "print pages 1 to 1" (rather than "print all pages") as each worksheet is designed to print onto a single sheet ["portrait", i.e. shorter side at the top] but because of the html may sometimes overlap onto a second for printing [the second (blank) sheet should not be required]. Draft quality is usually sufficient for a good copy - however use "presentation" if making originals for photocopying.