WordSwing
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WordSwing offers a variety of activities and games for practicing Chinese and furthering your language-learning efforts. Play our Chinese text adventure games, practice navigating a city by following directions in Chinese, or simply review vocabulary.
12/13/2018
Check out our new blog post about new versions of the apps and all the update features for the website! There are quiz tournaments; fun ways to meet your fellow students, personalized habit tracking, new text adventure game 'Girl saves universe', Pleco integration in the dictionary section, and select your own word lists to review in a more efficient way. We welcome all the comments that you may have to help us improve any features that you like!
The latest and greatest in our... | WordSwing Our quiz tournaments feature general knowledge reading comprehension questions in a friendly competition format. You play against other WordSwing students. Each tournament is a succession of back-and-forth rounds of answering a few questions. When your opponent completes a round, you are notified by...
12/10/2018
There are some tips for using the text adventure games, since not providing a map is by design. Drawing your own map is a pedagogical way to add more fun for learning. Here are some great maps drawn by our students, check out more map examples in our blog post. http://blog.wordswing.com/
12/05/2018
12/05/2018
Looking for a fun way to practice Chinese? WordSwing features a wide variety of interactive text adventure games for intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese. Come explore!
https://wordswing.com/study-sessions?show=text-games&ref=fbx38yg
12/03/2018
All Language Resources wrote a great (and detailed!) review of WordSwing. It goes over how WordSwing works, what activities are available, and how to use it. Come and check it out! Thanks to All Language Resources for the review. And many thanks to all of our WordSwing subscribers, your support and participation really helps us build and grow our content. We appreciate and welcome all of your input!
https://www.alllanguageresources.com/wordswing/
More text adventure games coming up soon! Stay tuned!
WordSwing Review - Study Chinese With Text Adventure Games - All Language Resources WordSwing is one of the few resources to focus strictly on providing engaging content for students with intermediate and higher levels of Mandarin.
05/23/2017
There is something magical about learning through games.
Why is it so effective?
Does the brain learn more efficiently when it's having fun? Or do the games present certain constraints and puzzles that facilitate particularly effective learning? Or is it something more mundane like games are fun and addictive and therefore we spend lots of time playing them; and it's simply the number hours that yields impressive learning outcomes?
While there is likely some truth to all of these, I focus on the last of these in our latest blog post: Games are fun and addictive and thus we're willing to spend lots of time playing them. And in the context of learning Chinese, it's clear that quantity matters.
Read the full analysis on our blog.
http://blog.wordswing.com/2017/05/22/the-magic-of-learning-through-games.html
Our latest text adventure game, Into the Haze, can seem pretty daunting. In particular the game opener can seem like a wall of Chinese text. But the game is probably not as hard as you might think because it reuses much of the same vocabulary over and over. Furthermore, we provide some pre-made word lists on WordSwing that you can personalize to your own knowledge of the language and use in a number of activities to familiarize yourself with the vocabulary. Probably the best strategy is to alternate between reviewing vocabulary and playing the game. After all, you can largely rely on playing the game to learn the vocabulary and use the word list more to get a sense of the scope of the vocabulary in the game, visualize your learning progress, and have an easy way to quickly identify the words you might not be familiar with yet.
Read more on our blog:
http://blog.wordswing.com/2017/05/17/into-the-haze-is-not-as-hard-as-you-think.html
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