Language-Learning Games

Games are a fun way to engage with almost any activity, whether frivolous or serious. Language-learning games can help us to acquire new words, along with their meanings and pronunciations, in a second language, and can make exercises feel like less of a slog.

These games have been developed to help learners of Korean, and make use of English and Korean translations and audio recordings. Since many Korean words can be analyzed as multicomponent constructions, useful hints and explanations are also offered as to how the meaning of the whole arises from the meaning of its parts.

Word Snake

Word Snake is a language-learning variant of the classic Snake (or Viper) game in which the player manoeuvres a snake around the screen, eating words and growing as its goes while avoiding the poisonous mushrooms. You are what you eat, and playing this game will help eat up and learn a wide variety of Korean words and phrases.

Hangman

Hangman is also a second-language variant of the classic Hangman paper-and-pencil word game. Players receive clues in English and must complete the hanging man's last words in Korean before the gallows gets him.

Cross Words

Cross Words is yet another second-language variant of a classic word-game format. Here the clues are English words and phrases and the solutions are their Korean translations. Clicking on any clue will reveal a useful hint, but at a cost!

Hangman's Cross

Hangman's Cross is a blend of the Hangman and Crosswords variants, in which players must complete the hangman's crossword to cheat the gallows of its next victim.

Word Fall

Word Fall is a word stacking game in which tall stacks are bad news. Drop English words onto their Korean translations (or vice versa) to make the bricks disappear, otherwise they will pile up and reach the ceiling. Flip the bricks from horizontal to vertical alignments to make more room on the bottom, and don't let those bricks pile up on you!