Syntax Builder Sentence Game
Arrange word tiles into correct Japanese or Mandarin sentences and build grammar intuition through repeated sentence construction.
About the author
Luke McLaughlin created Constructing Language after living in Japan and later learning Mandarin Chinese from scratch. The lessons, games, and guides are built from that first-hand learner experience and checked against native-speaker course work with Hiro for Japanese and Xiang for Mandarin Chinese.
- Lived in Japan and studied Japanese through immersion and structured self-study.
- Learned Mandarin Chinese from scratch as an adult learner.
- Created the Construction Method: audio-first sentence building, grammar graphics, and active recall.
- Built Japanese course material with Hiro and Mandarin course material with Xiang, both native-speaker collaborators.
Sentence patterns covered
The expanded bank includes 270+ Japanese sentences and 280+ Mandarin sentences for word order, particles, aspect markers, questions, time phrases, and embedded grammar patterns.