Text adventure games are awesome for learning Chinese, but how do they work and how can you get the most out of them?

Link to article in English: Text adventure games and how to use them in the Chinese language classroom

Link to article in Chinese (including separate podcast episode 78b): 文字冒险游戏及其在对外汉语教学中的应用

Tags: #learnchinese #textgame #wordswing #interactive

Hacking Chinese courses: https://www.hackingchinese.com/courses/

WordSwing: https://wordswing.com/

Escape! (completely free): https://wordswing.com/text-game/escape/

My article about Escape! https://www.hackingchinese.com/escape-text-adventure-game-chinese-learners/

My article about Into the Haze (a longer, a bit more difficult game): https://www.hackingchinese.com/haze-new-text-adventure-game-chinese-learners/

My article about some of the other games: https://www.hackingchinese.com/five-text-games-for-chinese-learners/

Diane Neubauer's article (includes a video): https://tprsforchinese.blogspot.com/2016/09/escape-text-adventure-game-with-ap.html

Student maps of WordSwing games (contains spoilers): https://blog.wordswing.com/posts/the-pedagogical-value-of-mapping-your-adventure/

How and why to teach Chinese through games: https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-and-why-to-teach-chinese-through-games/

Listen to this and other episodes on your favourite podcasting platform, including Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcast, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify and YouTube: https://www.hackingchinese.com/podcast

More information and inspiration about learning and teaching Chinese can be found over at https://www.hackingchinese.com

Music: "Traxis 1 ~ F. Benjamin" by Traxis, 2020 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)