Games to learn grammatical cases

Available for free here

  • Each Language comes with 6-15 game modes, a grammar guide, a part of speech guide and an alphabet guide
  • Each game mode comes with 100+ offline (free) questions.
  • LanguageMaster subscribers get access to a much larger pool of questions, which is auto moderated and expanded every day

  • Additional languages will be periodically added.
  • Send a message or comment below if you would like a certain language prioritized, a new game type added or more game data for an existing game.
  • Patch notes below
Updates
  • added Ukrainian and Icelandic case guides and games
  • added more guide examples to Hungarian
  • added more game data to Hungarian, Russian, Estonian, Arabic

  • fixed an issue with the Case Sort game where the same declension is used for multiple cases. (thanks AtsuKoK)
  • fixed an issue with some missing Japanese cases and selection logic
  • added a toggle (default off) to display the case endings in the Case Match and Case Sorter games. (thanks Zorbital) - might expand on that later to show the exact ending required.
  • added more game data for Czech, Polish, German, Russian, Ukrainian.

  • added Romanian, Georgian, Persian case guides and games
  • added a new game type to Finnish - Kirjakieli ↔ Puhekieli (Convert written language to spoken language / vice versa)
  • added a large amount of game data to Finnish, Ukrainian, Icelandic, Estonian
  • Case Sorter game now displays 12 random questions instead of all questions

  • added Chechen, French, Italian, Irish Gaelic, Swedish, Danish case guides and games
  • added a large amount of game data to Latin, Danish, Swedish, French, Italian, Irish Gaelic
  • added more game data to Russian, Chechen, Finnish
  • expanded the Latin cases guide
  • added more Unique games based on language characteristics

  • added Greek, Hindi case guides and games
  • added Alphabet Guides to Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen, Greek, Georgian (Mkhedruli), Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindi
  • added a new Verb Master game to Finnish (choose the correct verb conjugation for the sentence)
  • added a new Rektio & Syntax game to Finnish (Verb Governance, Transitive Object Verbs vs Intransitive Objectless Verbs, Infinitive Structural Rules, Prepositions/Postpositions)
  • added a large amount of game data to Greek, Hindi
  • added more game data to Ukrainian
  • added hint toggle to Word Transform for Georgian, Finnish

  • added Norwegian BokmĂ„l, Nepali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Chinese Traditional guides and games
  • added a large amount of game data to Norwegian BokmĂ„l, Nepali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Chinese Traditional
  • added a new game to Finnish (TĂ€mĂ€/Se/Tuo - Here or There / This or That or It - Locative drills)

  • added a new Sentence Builder game to Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Czech, Polish, Greek, Icelandic, Turkish, Georgian, Irish. (Given a sentence with entirely base form words and an English translation, choose each words correct form to create the grammatically correct sentence)
  • Case Sorter selections are now randomized
  • fixed an issue with ambiguous declensions for Case Sorter in German
  • zdded a large amount of game data to German
  • added more game data to Ukrainian

  • added new Story Builder game to Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, Estonian, Hungarian. (Similar to sentence builder but each sentence connects the previous one to form a short story)
  • added a large amount of new Sentence Builder questions to Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, Estonian, Hungarian
  • added more game data to Estonian, Hungarian
  • changed website to a lazy dynamic loading method because the data sets are becoming quite large

  • added Korean guides and games
  • added more game data to Turkish, Romanian, Japanese, Arabic
  • added Sentence Builder game to Latin, Romanian, Chechen

  • added a ‘Part of Speech’ guide to Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian BokmĂ„l covering 31 different grammatical forms
  • added a new game – ‘Guess the meaning of the expression/idiom’ – to Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian BokmĂ„l (limited initial data - approx. 15 idioms per language)
  • added a new game – ‘guess the punchline of a joke/riddle’ – to Finnish
  • backend is now generating 10 new questions and 1 story set per day for every game/language combination. (awaiting frontend connection)

  • added Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese guides and games
  • added a large amount of game data to Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese
  • added a ‘Part of Speech’ guide to Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Icelandic
  • added ‘Guess the meaning of the expression/idiom’ game to Turkish, Greek, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Romanian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Czech, Korean, Cantonese, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Persian, Estonian, Hungarian

  • added Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Slovak, Belarusian, Swahili, Tamil, Mongolian, Māori guides and games
  • added optional login with backend driven auto expanding data sets to Uzbek, Swahili, Tamil, Mongolian, Māori, Chinese Traditional, Mandarin, Cantonese, Ukrainian, Swedish, Slovak, Russian, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Polish, Nepali, Norwegian BokmĂ„l
  • added Part of Speech guide to Japanese
    Note: 10 new questions are added every day to each game and 1 new story for the story builder game. This will create an enormous amount of game data over time.

  • added Hebrew guides and games
  • added optional login with backend driven auto expanding data sets to Latin, Kazakh, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Hungarian, Hindi, Georgian, Irish Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Greek, German, Danish, Czech, Chechen, Belarusian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Hebrew
  • added a large amount of offline & db game data to Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Kazakh, Slovak, Tamil, Mongolian, Swahili, Uzbek, Māori, Hebrew
  • added a Part of Speech guide to Korean, Czech, Polish, Mandarin, Chinese Traditional, Hebrew

  • added Hawaiian guides and games
  • added a Part of Speech guide to Cantonese, Hawaiian, Māori, Arabic (MSA), Persian, Tamil, Swahili, Slovak, Romanian, Uzbek, Nepali
  • fixed formatting of the Hebrew Part of Speech guide
  • fixed a UI language display problem in Story Builder
  • added Story Builder game to Uzbek, Hawaiian, Belarusian, Czech, German, Irish, Korean, Latin, Māori, Romanian, Arabic, Chechen, Georgian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Nepali, Polish, Slovak, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Icelandic, Azerbaijani
  • added a large amount of offline & db game data to Hawaiian
  • Particle Match / Case Sorter in Korean, Mandarin, Chinese Traditional, Cantonese no longer give away the answer in the selection area
  • navigating to a non existent URL now redirects to home page
  • improved home page

  • added Bosnian guides and games
  • added automated AI driven question review and correction mechanism that samples questions from each game/language pair. This will help to maintain high question data quality over time.
  • added a Part of Speech guide to Mongolian, Latin, Kazakh, Hindi, Georgian, Irish, Chechen, Belarusian, Azerbaijani
  • fixed RTL formatting in the Arabic/Persian Expressions Game
  • removed a number of strange comparisons to Finnish in other unrelated languages Part of Speech references

notes

  • Automated review/corrections will help to maintain high question data quality for subscribers over time.
  • A Part of Speech guide for every language is now available

  • added English (US), English (UK) guides and games
  • English guides and games are available in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese

Fijian, Samoan, Tonga, Tahitian now join Hawaiian and Māori

  • Cases/Part of Speech/Alphabet guides
  • Large amount of (free) offline data

[EUROPEAN EXPANSION]

  • Added case guides, alphabet guides, POS guides, games and a large amount of offline game data to Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Croatian (HR), Slovenian (SL), Armenian (AM), Basque (EU), Serbian (RS), Dutch (NL), Bulgarian (BG), Macedonian (MK)

[ADDITIONS]

  • Added ability to repeat questions that were marked incorrect from the results screen
  • Added ability to flag incorrect game data for Subscriber questions. Flagged questions will be automatically reviewed by AI once per day.

[FIXES]
Server fixes

  • Fixed an issue where a single bad question parse in a requested sample would cause a fallback to offline game data. These are now bypassed, logged and sent for automated review.

Story Builder fixes

  • Hardened Story Builder generations for subscribers
  • Hardened the Sentence Builder/Story Builder automated review
  • Fixed Story Builder game displaying the correct example instead of the English translation in some cases for subscribers in Uzbek, Slovak, Romanian, Swahili, Polish, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, German, Estonian, Tamil
  • Fixed subscriber data not appearing for Story Builder in Samoan, Fijian, Tahitian, Tongan
  • Fixed Korean/Arabic Story Builder games requiring a selection for correct base form words
  • Fixed a graphical error where unselected first token words displayed as incorrect on the results screen (although sentence was marked correct)

Game fixes

  • Fixed subscriber data missing the correct option in some cases for Singular ↔ Plural and Locative Games in Finnish

[UPCOMING]
On the next round of updates I’ll be looking to expand the available Asian and African languages
(ASIAN) - Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Bengali, Thai, Urdu, Tagalog
(AFRICAN) - Zulu, Xhosa, Yoruba, Amharic

Additional games/languages will be added over time and by request


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Thank you. That is very good, I tried it for German

Awesome! Super helpful, I am going to use this when tutoring. Thank you very much.

Mahtavaa, kiitos! This will be so useful for practicing Estonian.

I noticed that you are planning to add more languages later. Is there any chance you could add Icelandic, or do you need to be familiar with the language yourself?

This is great! I am sooooo waiting for Ukrainian. Thank you :star_struck:

I’m looking forward to trying it out in Ukrainian – please let us know as soon as it’s available


@seratra @AtsukoK @BlueBird14

added Ukrainian and Icelandic case guides and games
added more guide examples to Hungarian
added more game data to Hungarian, Russian, Estonian, Arabic

thanks for the replies

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@roosterburton These games are great, I tried all six.

In Case Sorter, I came across a problem when multiple cases share the same declension. When I place one of them in a case, the other ones with the same declension disappear. Could you please take a look :folded_hands:

I’ll definitely be playing these games often :smiley: Thank you!

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This seems neat.

Each choice seems to have sample endings above the case name.
In Russian, they seem to be popular singular endings, even if the current word is in the plural.

I don’t mind, but I’m mentioning it in case that is not what you wanted to happen.

Note

What I mean is visible in the screenshot in the post before mine, showing them in Ukrainian, to the left of the case name.

The nominative says “-а / -ĐŸâ€. I suppose those are probably the two most popular singular nominative endings, as a reminder to the student what “nominative” means, right?

  • fixed an issue with the Case Sort game where the same declension is used for multiple cases. (thanks AtsuKoK)
  • fixed an issue with some missing Japanese cases and selection logic
  • added a toggle (default off) to display the case endings in the Case Match and Case Sorter games. (thanks Zorbital) - might expand on that later to show the exact ending required.
  • added more game data for Czech, Polish, German, Russian, Ukrainian.

  • added Romanian, Georgian, Persian case guides and games
  • added a new game type to Finnish - Kirjakieli ↔ Puhekieli (Convert written language to spoken language / vice versa)
  • added a large amount of game data to Finnish, Ukrainian, Icelandic, Estonian
  • Case Sorter game now displays 12 random questions instead of all questions

** Game data will be greatly expanded for more languages over the next few days
** Additional languages will be periodically added. Send a message or comment below if you would like a certain language prioritized.

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  • added Chechen, French, Italian, Irish Gaelic, Swedish, Danish case guides and games
  • added a large amount of game data to Latin, Danish, Swedish, French, Italian, Irish Gaelic
  • added more game data to Russian, Chechen, Finnish
  • added more Unique games based on language characteristics
  • expanded the Latin cases guide
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Your idea is wonderful! Is there any chance of you adding Greek at any stage?!

Thanks. Yes, Greek is added now


  • added Greek, Hindi case guides and games
  • added Alphabet Guides to Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen, Greek, Georgian (Mkhedruli), Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindi
  • added a new Verb Master game to Finnish (choose the correct verb conjugation for the sentence)
  • added a new Rektio & Syntax game to Finnish (Verb Governance, Transitive Object Verbs vs Intransitive Objectless Verbs, Infinitive Structural Rules, Prepositions/Postpositions)
  • added a large amount of game data to Greek, Hindi
  • added more game data to Ukrainian
  • added hint toggle to Word Transform for Georgian, Finnish

Example Alphabet Guides

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Thank you very much. Should we bother you with errors here? In the sentence “I water the trees in the garden” - trees is accusative plural. If you click that as the answer, it comes up as an error. It is true that it doesn’t change- a neuter plural, so it is the same as nominative (I’m referring to Greek here); but the answer is not false for all that


the plural cases in games other than case sorter was a bug, should be fixed on refresh now

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  • added Norwegian BokmĂ„l, Nepali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Chinese Traditional guides and games
  • added a large amount of game data to Norwegian BokmĂ„l, Nepali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Chinese Traditional
  • added a new game to Finnish (TĂ€mĂ€/Se/Tuo - Here or There / This or That or It - Locative drills)

You have a bug in a German lesson:

meiner Mutter can be dative and genitive. I have no idea how you could cope with such instances.

Really nice work! In the Case Sort game for Ukrainian, the words are all in order of the listed cases, so it’s not a real challenge.

@LeifGoodwin

Thanks, there was multiple ambiguous sort rounds. mainly between nominativ and akkusativ but also that round with dativ and genitiv. Can now put them in either bucket and it will be correct. German data was looking a bit light so I added 600 new questions.

@sraevsky

Thanks, they are shuffled now. Also added 20 more sort rounds to the data.

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Thank you. Very useful tool.

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