Women's Community Centre (SA) Inc tests Frog's Princess

Players have often suggested Frog's Princess could be used to improve reading skills for people for whom English is a second language.  So we tried it out!

5 volunteers from the Women's Community Centre (SA) Inc kindly agreed to play the game.  Kathy was hoping they would play for 30 minutes.  After 60 minutes, she was thanking them and offering them drinks.  After 90 minutes, she was explaining they probably wanted to finish up.  After 120 minutes, the battery ran out on the MAC and the session ended.

The verdict was not all positive, however.  There are cultural issues surrounding the frog's request to sleep in the princess's bed.  Also the language is old-fashioned, to suit the fairy tale setting, and therefore difficult to understand in places.  Finally there are no reading education tools, such as allowing a player to highlight a word and read a definition of it.

Here is Kathy surrounded by those of the 5 volunteers who were not too shy to appear on social media.