Activities & Games

Girl Saves Universe, a text adventure game

In our seventh interactive text adventure game for learning Chinese, your fate becomes linked to your mysterious uncle's cat, enabling you travel to a distant place in the universe, where you must attempt to restore the connections that bind the universe together.

Adding visual context to an adventure game

Our fifth text adventure game, The Magistrate's Gallery, has illustrations throughout the game that add visual context to aid your Chinese learning.

The Magistrate's Gallery

The Magistrate's Gallery is our fifth text adventure game for learning Chinese. In this game you are an artist who must help a professor find his daughter. It seems she has been trapped inside a painting. But which one? And how can you get her out?

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.

Text Adventure Game: Wandering Cat

Practice Chinese reading and listening on a strange adventure to find your cat.

Pepper & Carrot: Episode 1

Practice your Chinese reading and listening through the fun, magical world of Pepper & Carrot: Episode 1

Pepper & Carrot: Visual Context for Chinese Practice

Practice your Chinese reading and listening through the fun, magical world of Pepper & Carrot.

You smell a strange smell...

Burning Building is our fourth text adventure game for learning Chinese. In this game you begin the game at home in your apartment when you notice a strange smell. A fire! Can you get out safely and alert the fire department in time?

Your new job at the zoo

In this game, it's your first day on the job as an assistant zookeeper. Can you manage to follow the instructions of your boss on how to feed the animals and carry out other tasks around the zoo? Beware though, this is not an ordinary zoo!

The magic of learning Chinese through games

There is something magical about learning through games. Why is it so effective?

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.

Into the Haze

Into the Haze is our second, and most sprawling text adventure for learning Chinese. It takes place in some post-apocalyptic Chinese city. Your brother has gone missing, and you need to make your way into the city, survive the poisonous haze, and rescue your brother.

And now for a little friendly competition

What better way to motivate yourself than stoking a bit of your competitive instinct? Our Quiz Tournament activity offers a few rounds of short, multiple-choice reading comprehension questions.

Chinese listening through adventure games

Listening comprehension is one of the most important skills when learning a language. With the audio available for our text adventure games, you not only get excellent listening practice, but you'll know how well you're understanding things based on whether you can make progress in the game and avoid mishaps.

Pronunciation Recall

The Pronunciation Recall activity is one of the best ways on WordSwing to review words you have been learning. It pulls words from any combination of your word lists, and drills you using a spaced-repetition algorithm.

Our text adventure game, Escape.

Escape is an interactive graded reader that begins with the main character (you) trapped in a room for unclear reasons, and you must find a way to escape and avoid getting caught, all the while exploring the world of the game in Chinese.

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.

Learning Chinese characters, the most common first

With thousands of Chinese characters to master, it can be daunting to get going and plough through them. But an efficient strategy can make a big difference. In our Written Word SRS activity, you can learn characters in frequency order while practicing them using words composed by these characters.