May 21, 2008
New Online Video Game Teaches Students Chinese
A professor at Michigan State University has created a free online video game to help students learn Chinese.
The multi-player role-playing game, Zon/New Chengo, allows users to choose Mandarin phrases to converse with other characters in the game about exchanging money, buying breakfast, and other activities visitors to China would experience.
The game was created by Yong Zhao, University distinguished professor of educational psychology and educational technology, who runs the university’s Confucius Institute.
Check out the game free here, or view a video demo of it here.—Catherine Rampell.
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This looks like it could be a great teaching resource — thank you Prof. Zhao for developing it and making it available for free. Unfortunately, neither the registration system (required to get the free game) nor the video download work via my computer (an Intel Mac). The “video” comes through as gibberish text.
— Kathlin May 22, 11:00 AM #
Very refreshing. Will the amount of English stay in the video games?
— leeann chen May 22, 12:10 PM #
The application works for me. It would be great to see something like Loqu8 (http://loqu8.com) for mainstream MMORPG built primarily for Chinese speakers.
— tim Jun 3, 05:17 PM #