Real Life ChineseChinese lessons · Beihai, China
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狼人杀láng rén shā

Playing Werewolf in Chinese

One long class game, played the whole way through in Mandarin. These are the words you need to follow it: the roles, the suspicions, and the phrases for voting someone out.

Beginner · A21 video12 wordstwo drills

The words this course runs on

Read through these first. They are what you will hear in the videos, and what both drills ask you for afterwards.

  • 狼人láng rénwerewolf
  • 村民cūn mínvillager
  • 预言家yù yán jiāthe seer
  • 女巫nǚ wūthe witch
  • 猎人liè rénthe hunter
  • 投票tóu piàoto vote
  • 怀疑huái yíto suspect
  • 相信xiāng xìnto believe
  • 天黑tiān hēinight falls
  • 游戏yóu xìgame
  • 赢yíngto win
  • 输shūto lose

Watch the video

Part 1A whole class game played in Mandarin
13:28

Practise what you heard

Two drills over the same 12 words: type them from the characters, then recognise them by ear.

Word 1 of 120 right so far

Read the word, then type its pinyin. Tones and spaces do not matter.

狼人

werewolf

Where these words get used

Every course in the library starts as something that happened in Beihai — a class, a game, a market stall — and the photographs here are from the same days.

Students visiting the Forbidden City in Beijing
The Forbidden City
Students inside the Forbidden City in Beijing
Inside the Forbidden City
Vietnamese students on a study trip with our school
Vietnamese students on tour
Vietnamese students out on a study trip
Vietnamese students on tour