{"id":694,"date":"2008-06-24T20:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/play-and-learn\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T20:58:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T19:58:57","slug":"play-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Play and learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at Michigan State University has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/enterzon.com\/\">free online role-playing game<\/a> that teaches you Mandarin Chinese, as well as introducing you to Chinese culture, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsroom.msu.edu\/site\/indexer\/3423\/content.htm\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Within the game you inhabit a virtual version of China where you can visit markets, read newspapers, watch television, chat and trade with other players and even get a job, and there are plenty of help with the language the culture. Players start out as tourists and can become residents or even citizens of the virtual China.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a good idea that might appeal to quite a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know of games that teach other languages? Have you tried any of them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at Michigan State University has created a free online role-playing game that teaches you Mandarin Chinese, as well as introducing you to Chinese culture, according to this report. Within the game you inhabit a virtual version of China where you can visit markets, read newspapers, watch television, chat and trade with other players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}