Additional information for playing the game
The words do not include accent marks; refresh the page for a new word
Palabrale - Test Your Spanish Vocab
Purpose of This Spanish Word Game (SEO Bait)
PLUG-IN Generated Paragraph: Palabrale is a super fun Spanish word game that’s perfect for language learners looking to expand their vocabulary. This exciting game uses only Spanish words, giving you a chance to put your language skills to the test. Get ready to challenge yourself and have a blast with this entertaining Spanish word game!
For the player, the goal is to test your knowledge of Spanish by seeing if you can guess the word with five tries. If you can’t, then you can refresh the page and try again. Maybe you’ll learn a new word or two in the process, and if not, you’ll still have had a quick bit of fun.
It’s a Spanish word game; I’m going to repeat that because repetition is key (to getting a good Search Engine Rank), and I want to succeed. If I do, then I get money.
For my purposes, this game is a proof of concept. The concept is if I can correctly implement a more involved game. Coincidentally, this game also came from a Free Code Camp guide: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-wordle-clone-in-javascript/
Future Plans for my Spanish Word Game
Ideally, I’ll get this game to accept the letter “ñ” and provide the English translation of words. Maybe after I do that, I can provide a sentence to contextualize using the words. In the mean time, I recommend using WordReference if you’re curious about the English translation of a given word. Technically, you could translate it into any other language, but I’m assuming English since essentially this entire site is designed around using English.
Nice To Add Feature 1: Accent Marks
I’m actually not sure how I’d go about indicating whether or not an accent mark is appropriate, and my current word list excludes all words that have one or the letter “ñ”. I’d have to generate a new one, which shouldn’t be difficult.
The difficult part would be ensuring that the website displays the letters correctly.
Nice to Add Feature 2: Contextualize the Word
When learning words, it’s nice to get an example sentence to ground the word in how it’s actually used. There’s a lot of connotative knowledge we take for granted in our native language. A demonstration of how a new word is used provides that necessary context for getting it right.
However, for me to display such an example sentence would mean reconfiguring my word list to associate every single word with an example sentence. To do such an update would require me to have at least have a sentence showing each word being used.
I don’t have that.
Even if I did have that, I’m not sure how I’d go about associating each word with only one sentence; the challenge of figuring it out is intriguing though.
Nice to Add Feature 3: Translation of the Word
A quick and simple way to provide additional learning would be to show the English translation of each word. The problem is that I don’t know the English equivalent of all the words, and I don’t have a handy list providing such information.
The actual coding implementation is probably the easiest part of adding this feature.
Concluding Thoughts on This Spanish Word Game
It currently works, which was not always a certainty, but if I change anything, there’s a good chance it’ll stop working again. Adding any of the features, even after finishing the groundwork of gathering the necessary information, would require a lot more trial and error than I currently want to do. It’d be great for learning more JavaScript, but the frustration is currently not worth it. I’ll probably immediately ignore that thought and work on it anyways, but that’s a future bit of hypocrisy to ignore.
Until then, try this other game of mine; it’s not a Spanish word game but English instead. Eventually, I’ll make a non-word game.
