Mandarin Basic: Hold a Conversation

How to play: you are a stranger meeting a stranger, and the whole conversation happens in Mandarin — every word of it already taught by the level you are on. Mandarin partner speaks each line out loud — Mandarin on the card, with the pronunciation guide and English underneath at the easier difficulties — and you pick the reply that fits from four choices. A right reply wins a heart; a wrong one shows you the line that would have worked, teaches why, and the moment comes back around later, so every conversation ends well however it goes. Each level is one short scene built from the words that level has just taught — no new words, only the cumulative ones, with the level's fresh words in the spotlight. There is no losing and no time limit; the clock only remembers how long the conversation took, and the hearts how smoothly you held it. It is the applied rung of the Mandarin course — play the In Class lesson first, and every word here will already be yours.