Beginner · 15 days · ~12 min a day
Chinese for gamers.
China makes and plays more games than anywhere else, and switching a game to Chinese is one of the best ways to practise: the context tells you what every button must mean. This course starts with the menus and ends with the lore.
A day is marked done when you pass its quiz at the end: get 5 of its 8 questions right.
Gaming slang moves fast. The words here were in wide use when this was written. Works from the daily course's first week.
How this course is different
Starts with the screen: the menus you see in the first minute
Voice chat you can actually use with a team
Gacha and shop slang explained, with where it came from
No game or character is named: every example is written for the lesson
Unit 1 · The screen
DAY 1Start game, settings, cancelDAY 2Quests, maps and your bagDAY 3Pulls, pity and luckDAY 4Characters and statsDAY 5Review: patch notes
Unit 2 · Voice chat
DAY 6Calling the playDAY 7Help, retreat, regroupDAY 8Praise and friendly trash talkDAY 9Finding a teamDAY 10Review: a whole match
Unit 3 · Lore and legend