Comments on: Learning Chinese with StarCraft 2 https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/ A better way of learning Mandarin Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:37:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Learning Chinese by playing board games | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-127637 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:37:18 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-127637 […] several articles about this already, including how to use computer games to learn Chinese (and a separate article about StarCraft), as well as an article about playing word games to improve oral fluency. I have also designed text […]

]]> By: 3 things I wish I had known as an advanced student of Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-124248 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:21:41 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-124248 […] aren’t related to my profession at all, but that I enjoy learning about. Another example is StarCraft, a computer game for which I used to watch hundreds of hours of professional gameplay with…. You need to find your 李永乐老师 or your StarCraft, preferably a whole crowd of […]

]]> By: 陈振华 https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-118632 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:06:34 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-118632 Just in case someone finds this years later, I took some time and updated the deck with audio, images, and bumped it to the new Anki format.

Here’s the download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10z4S5nApc7RwycnftWfA-LsYorUB7OsA/view?usp=sharing

Please reach out at maxfieldchen@gmail.com if you found it useful! Would love to chat. 跟你的中文的学习，加油！

]]> By: Learning with Native Mandarin Chinese Audio: A No-Nonsense Guide | FluentU Mandarin Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-106304 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:50:15 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-106304 […] I have spent many, many hours watching professional StarCraft 2 matches in Chinese. This is actually more or less the same thing as watching sports broadcasts, meaning that there is a small number of words specific to the game/sport, but after you get past the initial threshold, it is all very normal language. Again, let your interest guide you, if you like basketball, check a few channels covering Chinese or foreign leagues. If you like computer games, do the same for whatever game you fancy. If you just happen like StarCraft 2, you are in luck! I have written a long article about how to use StarCraft 2 to learn Chinese. […]

]]> By: The 10 best free Chinese listening resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners - Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-102745 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:18:20 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-102745 […] mostly Starcraft 2 and Valorant matches in Chinese. I’ve written more about games in general and Starcraft 2 in […]

]]> By: 13 Fresh, Useful Ways to Practice Chinese Online | FluentU Mandarin Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-96390 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:30:54 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-96390 […] of Legends and Starcraft are two games that have brief guides available online in English explaining how to get started […]

]]> By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-45963 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:26:45 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-45963 In reply to Angus Macrae.

Anki doesn’t make it easy to share and maintain decks. The CSV file is downloadable, though, and it shouldn’t be too hard to make it work in Anki! I’ll add this to my list of things to have a look at, but it might take a while before I get to it.

]]> By: Angus Macrae https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-45903 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:11:34 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-45903 Hi,

I’m keen to study this vocabulary as I’m a big fan of SC2 and an intermediate-advanced learner of Mandarin. But when I click on the link to the Anki deck I get “This shared item is no longer available”. Any chance you could update the link? Would be much appreciated.

]]> By: NinKenDo https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-45335 Sun, 03 Mar 2019 04:11:57 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-45335 Does anybody know what font is needed, and how to link it, to run the TC version under Wine? I just get boxes for characters, and I’ve linked all the default TC fonts.

]]> By: Lucas https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-with-starcraft-2/#comment-33508 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:24:27 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=1546#comment-33508 In reply to Olle Linge.

You can now change game-specific options such as both the displayed and the spoken language from within the battlenet client. The battlenet client will then automatically download all data required to perform the language switch. I’ve done it and I am now playing Starcraft 2 in Chinese. I have also found strategy related articles on NeoTV, which actually contain a lot of useful, not so difficult language. The Starcraft and strategy-game related terms are of course difficult, but with the help of your vocab list and a pop-up browser dictionary also no problem, since a lot can be inferred from context if you are familiar with Starcraft 2.

Thanks for providing such a specific article! The target audience may not be huge, but for people like me who love both Chinese and Starcraft 2, the article and the vocab list provide insane value!

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