Welcome to Area 10

Any Language to English

"Any Language to English is a relatively-new area at Project HappyChild, and replaces "Build Your Own Website", written in the fledgling stages of this site, when building a website at all was a major undertaking, and we needed to explain "how it was done" for the benefit of schools and charities taking their first steps in pagebuilding.

Much has changed since then! and, seven years down the track, in 2005, it became time to launch a new concept that, ironically, only the mind-map-structure of this website and the Internet itself makes possible.

"Any Language to English" is a huge area with over 800 worksheets, that maps out the basic structure of English vocabulary themes and links them together in a format which allows the worksheets to be used for teaching English from any other language worldwide.

This should be possible for *any* html-compatible language in any country where the "teaching-of-English-to-children" is required.

We've already completed the basic French dual-language area - all the English-to-French (and French-to-English) verbs and vocabulary worksheets are already on line *here* and a number of other languages are now scheduled or in progress.

Free worksheets for Russian-English vocabulary and Romanian-English verbs have now gone up on line - latest addition Polish-English vocabulary on 7th July 2007 - and we hope to be able to upload more dual-language worksheet sets within the next few months.

The possibilities are endless :) All that's required to add this entire resource in a "new language" (for example Greek) is for one individual who is fluent in both Greek and English, to offer to translate the vocabulary or verb content (around 4000 words or phrases in each) from English to Greek and enter the words into an already-prepared database.

The translations need to be checked by a professional linguist (for accuracy and for suitability for children) then an entire set of English/Greek dual-language worksheets can be generated more-or-less-automatically, and uploaded to this site, for use by children and schools anywhere in the world.

With many schools now experiencing huge influxes of children of other nationalities, we'd like to request help with this project from any of you "out there" who could translate or check any languages for this resource. The "Translators" page gives details of offers made so far, and languages currently in progress. Please e-mail penny2008 (at) happychild.org.uk if you're able to help.

To minimise work for all the translators/checkers, we've created a separate-but-linked "overview" area where the entire vocabulary of any single verb conjugation or vocabulary theme is mapped out on a single webpage. All that needs to be done is to print off the pages (less than 70 vocabulary categories, and about 50 verbs), "fill in the blanks", put them on the database and e-mail them across - just contact us for more details of how to become part of this huge project.

Our deepest thanks to Mario Becroft in New Zealand for all the programming work enabling this resource to be created.