Interesting Mandarin course --- Learning from a traditional Chinese game --- Má Jiàng

This is an interesting table game usually played by four people. And according to some research, playing this game may effectively prevent elders from getting Alzheimer’s disease because under no circumstances can one win this game only by luck without frequently brain activities of memorizing, calculating, evaluating, and decision making.

Let’s cut to the chase, the Chinese characters appear in this game are easy. You will learn the Chinese numbers from one to nine and several simple but useful characters as follows,

Traditional	Simplified	pinyin	Meaning
一	一	yī	One
二	二	èr	Two
三	三	sān	Three
四	四	sì	Four
五	五	wǔ	Five
六	六	liù	Six
七	七	qī	Seven
八	八	bā	Eight
九	九	jiǔ	Nine
萬	万	wàn	Ten thousand (I discussed this unit difference in a previous article.)
中	中	zhōng	Middle
發	发	fā	Here it means “發財” = “become rich”.
東	东	dōng	East
南	南	nán	South
西	西	xī	West
北	北	běi	North

Here is a downloadable FREE stand-alone version Má Jiàng software, share with you --- my dear readers.