Deep Dives
The pedagogical value of mapping your adventure
The pedagogical value of mapping your adventure
Our text adventure games often involve exploring a world described in Chinese. Remembering where you've been and how to get around can get tricky, particularly given we (intentionally) don't provide a map. But there's nothing to stop you from drawing your own. And indeed we highly recommend this!
Incremental character learning through games
Incremental character learning through games
Strategically learning characters in preparation for a text game can ensure you recognize a very high percent of the text.
Level up your language learning habits
Level up your language learning habits
Whether you are successful in your language-learning pursuits is heavily influenced by whether you're able to stick with it or not. So we've built some (slightly) gamified tools for helping you build your Chinese learning habits.
Into the Haze is not as hard as you think
Our text adventure games work like a interactive, graded readers But when you first dive into a game, you may find it looks like wall of Chinese, and perhaps a bit overwhelming. But all is not lost! The games reuse so many characters that after a bit of play and some effort you will start to feel much more comfortable and capable.
How does the Written Word SRS character-learning gadget work?
Our Written Word spaced-repetition character learning gadget is designed to leverage the combinatorial structure of Chinese as well as the distribution of word frequencies to optimize your learning and save you a boat load time and effort.