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 Chinese: 文字冒险游戏及其在对外汉语教学中的应用 https://www.hackingchinese.com/wenzi-maoxian-youxi/ Link to article in English (including separate podcast episode 78a): Text adventure games and how to use them in the Chinese language classroom https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-play-adventure-text-games-with-a-chinese-teacher/ 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)

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