Mandarin Defense

Learn Chinese characters with a powerful, fun game to maximize your retention.

Bored of learning Chinese Mandarin with books and flashcards? With Mandarin Defense, you can learn Chinese characters and also save the world along the way! A simplistic, yet powerful way to enjoy playing a fun game yet optimise your retention of simple and tricky Chinese characters.

USE THE POWER OF CHINESE CHARACTERS to beat attacking demons who are trying to capture your princesses. Only by knowing the right character, can you stop the hoard!

LEARN USEFUL KNOWLEDGE WHILE playing a challenging fun game! Simple but effect game that will help you recognise Chinese characters!

ACTIVELY LEARN instead of falling asleep while reading a book. Flashcards don't force you to actively learn but games do.

ENTERTAINING STORYLINE to add flavour and excitement to your learning journey.

EXCITING BOSS FIGHTS that will ensure you don't forget what you learned.

LISTEN to each word and learn how they are pronounced!

CHOOSE BETWEEN SHORT AND LONG game durations. You can just practice a few words or go through everything you learned in one game.

A FUN WAY TO LEARN MANDARIN CHINESE! If you are having as much trouble with Chinese characters as I did, this will definitely take you to the next level.

Features:

• Over 1400 Chinese characters categorised and grouped to maximise your memory retention

• 25 levels with an exciting story that will guide you to your maximum potential

• 5 challenging stage bosses that will test your overall comprehension of what you learned

• 4 Levels of Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) Vocabulary for the Chinese Mandarin Standardised test

• 4 engaging teachers that will test you and help you finish the story

• 3 different game modes so you can have a short lesson or challenge your comprehensive knowledge over a test of endurance.

• 2 different characters to choose from where all progress and learning is tracked.

• Options for learning in Pinyin or Bopomofo/Zhuyin

• Options for listening to standard Beijing pronunciation or Taiwanese Mandarin pronunciation

• Listen to words as you play to enhance your listening comprehension and pronunciation

• Track your progress and mastery level for each new word you learn. Keep count of how many characters you learn and earn in-game ranks and badges

• Learn from a variety of useful subjects, word roots, just the most common words, or go through the schooling system up to grade 5

This game and storyline is free to play with all features but it offers in-app-purchases for additional Chinese characters.