Reducing the threshold of Chinese language learning by playing the game mechanism

Duolingo's greatest innovation in language learning is the way it exercises (translate), allowing learners to remember words, phrases, sentences, and grammar unconsciously. But Duolingo has not yet entered the field of Chinese language learning, but instead focuses on the teaching of Latin languages (that is, languages that look at the words), which has also allowed the first group of Chineseskill to come into our Krypton space to see the opportunity.

In short, Chineseskill (IOS) is a Duolingo teaching mechanism for Chinese teaching products, it changes the traditional Chinese language learning is too heavy process-Traditional Chinese learning is the elite learning, to copybook, writing as the beginning, But this way obviously can't adapt to the rhythm of mobile internet. So chineseskill the process of learning Chinese language to do "light", using the game mechanism, each level is designed to be a knowledge point of repeated practice, such as multiple-choice questions, Scrabble questions, translation problems, and so on, so that foreigners to practice while remembering, the threshold of learning is reduced.

Speaking of lowering the threshold, Chineseskill has a very interesting little link, that is, let users in the field of Scrabble--in addition to the radical radicals can not choose the wrong, if the Chinese character of the top and bottom of the structure between the left too far, there will be error prompts. This process is equivalent to the "choice" of the way to reduce the direct "writing" of foreigners difficulty.

Wang Shilong, founder of the Chineseskill team, said that after years of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, they felt that traditional Chinese language learning was too heavy and attracted by its innovative mechanism after contacting Duolingo last year, which formed a team to make the Chinese version of Duolingo, Want to let foreigners in the process of practice, step by step unconsciously to the vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar are remembered, do not cross the high threshold of learning. He said that the current product design vocabulary, so that learners can finish after learning to achieve years level of Chinese learning.

As for the profit model, Wang Shilong said that there was no special idea but he doesn't want to replicate Duolingo's way of earning money through crowdsourcing translations, because the translation of profit points may end up erasing the innovation of learning mechanisms, and he feels that the things that can be done to supplement product teaching with real-language teaching may be a better way. At present, they still want to focus on product optimization, such as the addition of personalized intelligent learning tracking, so that each user can be more rhythmic review.