Games that employ your senses
See the pictures, listen to the sounds, touch the right characters - we use a careful mix of senses to help you create a solid long-term mental image.
Have Fun. Learn Chinese.
The long story
You can skip this part if you don't want to know more about the idea behind HaveFunLearnChinese.
Learning can be hard.
Learning Mandarin Chinese especially so.
You spend a few months memorizing six hundred basic characters just to find out you cannot read a simple note. And to master a newspaper article, you'll have to learn a thousand more.
Your brain is an amazing piece of work. Some say with persistence and motivation you can learn up to 30 Chinese characters per day for months in a row. Your brain can do that, but how bored you'll get. You'll feel like you are trying to stuff your head till it explodes.
And the problem is not with your mental capacity, the problem is your brain won't learn what it perceives as useless stuff. You may be all excited about being able to communicate in what many think is the hardest language in the world, but all your brain sees is an endless queue of stupid black blobs which all look the same and have absolutely nothing to do with the reality, bring no immediate joy, pleasure or satisfaction.
We believe that learning Mandarin Chinese can be fun. Even the hardest part - memorizing characters, words and building vocabulary.
We want to crack the problem of enjoyable learning on the go. We want to create interactive exercises which are fun to use and at the same time unlock your maximum learning potential.
Our goal is to create the most useful apps for learning and we want the users and the learners to be the judges. We create many simple games and let the players decide which ones are good and which are not. You can take part in this quest, whenever you play any of our games and publish a high score, you upvote the game you play and this game and games similar to it get additional development resources.
Games designed to play on the go
Quick rounds, instant feedback, spend a few minutes practicing now and then and your command of the language will steadily grow. Even the tallest towers are made with little bricks.
Games that will make you remember
Using adaptive spaced repetition and analyzing your answers, we make you focus on the areas that cause problems, while spending less time on the things you already know well.
The games
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Dragon Snake
#phrases #hsk3+
Learn 3000 words and 500 phrases in Mandarin Chinese playing the classic Snake game. Build the phrase by eating characters in the right order. Control the SnakeDragon by swiping your finger up, down, left and right. Swipe repeatedly to move faster, swipe backwards to slow down. Adjust your level and learning mode using the buttons below.
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Emoji Words
#words #pictures #beginner
Learn basic Chinese words with emoji flashcards. Just spending a few minutes a day you will build a strong link between the objects, characters and their pronunciation. This game supports HSK1-3 words and several learning modes.
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Measure
#grammar #pictures #hsk3+
Improve you handling of Mandarin Chinese measure words in this little game.
Using correct measure words is an often overlooked part of learning Chinese, but in this game you can teach yourself to associate the right measure words with three hundred most commonly used objects.
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Find Pair
#characters #beginner
If you are just starting with the Chinese language, you can use this little game to get comfortable with identifying the characters, and get some idea about their meaning and pronunciation. If you are more proficient in Chinese, you can select a harder level to show more complex and rare characters.
To play just find and tap on all matching pairs of characters, this simple game doesn't even require any prior knowledge of the characters themselves.
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KangXi
#radicals #beginner
Improve you knowledge of Chinese characters in this little game. Knowing the KangXi radicals will help you memorize and understand the Chinese writing and how the characters are composed. In this game you can teach yourself to associate the right radicals with three thousand most common characters.
To play just tap on all words which share the same radical. You can also tap on the radical tile to get help.
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Word Match
#words #pictures #beginner
If you are just starting with the Chinese language, you can learn to match characters and corresponding pictures in this little game. If you are more proficient in Chinese, you can select a harder level.
To play just find and tap on all matching pairs of pictures and characters.
Our educational videos
You can find the latest versions of our educational videos here.
FAQ
Why are there so many games? Do I have to play them all?
Our goal is to create the most useful apps for learning and we want the users and the learners to be the judges. We create many simple games and let the players decide which ones are good and which are not. You can take part in this quest, whenever you play any of our games and publish a high score, you upvote the game you play and this game and games similar to it get additional development resources.
And of course you don't have to play all of them, only play those that you like. That's the idea behind pleasurable learning.
There is an error in a game, how come?
Errors do happen, but if you report it, we'll do our best to fix it. Also, the first person to report an error will get a preview of one next game, before it's released to public.
If you have questions, you can contact us on Facebook or Twitter, or you can write us an email.
Google Play availability
The Android versions of our apps are not yet ready. You can follow us on Facebook or Twitter to get a notification when they are available. If you happen to have an iPhone or iPad, you can download our apps now.
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