Kingka Games | Mandarin Chinese Game Review and Giveaway
March 16, 2010 by admin - Jennifer
Filed under Featured, Giveaways
Company: Kingka LLC
Item Reviewed: Kingka 1 Game
Item Given Away: Kingka 1 Game
Start Date: March 16
End Date: March 30
KINGKA’s mission is to make learning Chinese fun and effortless through different games and media. The KINGKA game is a very helpful educational tool for non-native-speakers to teach children Chinese at an early age or encourage the enthusiasm in children to learn Chinese through playing competitively.
KINGKA, the most decorated language board game, is uniquely designed as a multi-purpose toy for all ages. Kids and adults alike find this ingenious twist on a classic game fun and challenging. The abstract lines and complex composition are great brain teasers for 3-99. Once the children have mastered identifying the basic shapes of circles, triangles and squares, they are ready for a KINGKA challenge.
This patented puzzle, Bingo and memory game is easy for parents and teachers who have zero Chinese experience to introduce the Chinese language and culture to their families or classrooms. Based on research, this versatile toy, if used solely as a puzzle, can stimulate visual discrimination, a critical cognitive development in early childhood.
Each KINGKA set can be played by 1-6 players. It is also expandable by adding other sets in the series to increase the challenge and fun, depend upon the size of the group or their fluency. You can mix KINGKA 1, KINGKA 2 and KINGKA 3 to accommodate a larger group or higher challenge for a small group.
- A great game for after school programs, home schooling, and family time.
- You can play Bingo game in four different languages with every Kingka set.
- Content subjects: Numbers (main), animals, body parts, food, nature and daily objects.
With these 54 basic characters, players can create number 1-99 and 160+ new words or phrases in Mandarin Chinese.
- No Reading Required to Play
- Contains no small parts
- Help develop concentrations, fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination for younger kids
- 1 audio CD to help with accurate pronunciation included
- 1-6 players
- Age:3-99
- 6 boards
- 108 Cards
My Thoughts
My daughter is always looking for new games, and although she loves video games she still gets excited when we find a board game that she is anxious to play. That is what happened with Kingka. This is definitely a one of a kind game and one that throughout the process will teach her basic words in Mandarin Chinese. Being a homeschooled student she loves that she can learn another language. After a few times playing this game with her she has picked up on quite a few words and she is so proud of herself. I love that it is an educational game that can be played by her and her friends and they have so much fun with it. A very interesting game and one I recommend to everyone!
And thanks to the wonderful people over at Kingka I am able to host a giveaway for my readers. If you would like to get this game for your child and help them learn a new language then please see rules below to enter to win a game today.
Giveaway
- MAIN RULE – Go to Kingka’s website and find an interesting fact and come back here and tell tell me in comments what you found out. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
- 1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment.
- 1 Extra Entry – Follow me on Twitter (button in header) and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment.
- 1 Extra Entry – Tweet this giveaway. Copy and paste – @Jentifa is giving away a Kingka Mandarin Chinese Game! Check it out here http://bit.ly/cWnVGZ. Then come back and leave the direct link to your tweet (go to your twitter account, click on the words when your tweet was sent (ie. 5 seconds ago) and copy and paste that link in comments.
- NEW – 1 Extra Entry – Friend me on Google Friend Connect on sidebar and leave a separate comment that you did.
- 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog.
This giveaway will run through midnight on March 30, with winner being announced the morning of March 31. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
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