Building Words

I usually look for web pages where I can testing my vocabulary of English, doing a crossword, answering questions and so on. In most cases I find sites for children which I attach to my children's bars in "favourites". Not long ago, I found a full site with a great many things to practise English. Among them there was a kind of game. You have to search words with eight letters which are in a box. Depending on the difficulty you have more or less time. It's amazing how many words you can form in a few seconds. It's a bit easy because you can put the words in singular or plural, in all verb tenses and in first and third person. But, even so, it's so much the pressure, that it's difficult to get the objective. If you find any eight-letters word the mark will be bigger. 

In a recent post by Matt, he mentioned "ortografía horrible" talking about the English. I do not know if awful but, certainly, it is very complicated, a bit disconcerting and I could say a bit "Martian". Languages like Swedish seems to me belonging to another galaxy and languages like Chinese or Russian must be of another universe.

Well, the thing is that, when I have ten minutes to waste, just ten minutes and I can not spend them on writing or correcting something, (I would need more time), I like playing this "game" and the true is that I find it very amusing. I have been with it for about two weeks and I do not know if it's something useful but, for the time being, I have learnt to write correctly a lot of complicated words. I am learning with a great speed to form words which end in -ing, -less, -ness and all roots, suffixes and prefixes possible. 

I had not seen or heard many of these words in all my life but I am able to deduce and write them properly, without having any idea of its significance.

I think this may be useful for something , I don´t know, but I have a great time.