Mandarin Sentence Builder Practice Tool
Use scrambled word tiles to build Mandarin sentences and practise word order, time phrases, questions, negation, and aspect markers.
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.
What the builder trains
The Mandarin sentence builder helps learners internalise sentence order by making them actively rebuild Chinese sentences from meaning.
How to use it
Start with beginner prompts, say each completed sentence aloud, and move up only when time phrases, negation, and questions feel predictable.