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Heading Into Language Land is much more than a game. It’s a collection of resources – and a community – that will inspire you to higher levels of mastery over your TL.

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Practice your language skills and make friends with other language learners from around the world! All levels welcome.

2025

Japanese – First Saturday of every month @ 9am (New York City time)

Turkish – Second Saturday of every month @ 9am (New York City time)

Spanish – Third Saturday of every month @ 9am (New York City time)

Mandarin – Fourth Saturday of every month @ 9am (New York City time)

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After signing up, Matt will contact you when it’s time for the next game in one of your TLs! Want to learn more before signing up? Check out this blog post!

TOP PLAYERS OF 2024

This is the incredible final leaderboard from 2024. Congratulations to Qiao, who was our most frequent player! We will leave this leaderboard up until someone makes it onto the 2025 leaderboard.

(Join at least 5 online games to appear on the forthcoming 2025 leaderboard! At the end of the year, the top player will win a free game deck! Runners up will receive prizes, too.)

Qiao - Turkish (8) Mandarin (5)

Wendy - Mandarin (5) Japanese (4) German (1) English (1)

Larissa - Japanese (5) Turkish (3) Spanish (1) Italian (1)

Air - Mandarin (6) Spanish (3)

Sinan - Mandarin (6) French (1) Turkish (1)

Sudanto - Japanese (7)

Fatima - Spanish (6)

Ruzel - Spanish (6)

Alessandro - Japanese (4) Italian (1)

FEATURED GAME

Printable Game - $19.95

Print this PDF file, cut out the cards, and start playing right away! Enjoy an incredible educational experience at an affordable price.

Virtual Game - $29.95

Play online with your friends and family – no matter where they live – with this virtual game! Printable version also included.

Real Game - $89.95

54 professionally-printed game cards delivered right to your door! Includes the printable and virtual versions, plus one foil card of your choice.

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Matt Boyle here. Language learner and founder of Language Card Games.

I truly believe in your ability to learn any language you want to learn. I also believe that you will find my unique games and online gaming group sessions to be the absolute best out there for the purpose.

And when learning a new game, it really helps to have someone present who already knows how to play, who can introduce the game to you, play it with you, and answer any questions you might have, so that you start deriving value and entertainment from the game more quickly and effectively.

That’s why I’m offering a free, 20-minute online gaming session to you with every single deck of real cards that you buy! You will also receive invites to join my online gaming groups. My goal is to ensure you experience a transformation and get results! It’s simple: after you make your purchase, I will email you more information. No strings attached. You get to decide how far we go on this language learning journey together.

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LANGUAGE LEADERS SAY...

"I'm a fan of anything that facilitates offline language learning. Smartphones and the internet in general are distracting, so wherever possible, I'd prefer to disconnect completely. With Language Guardians, there isn't just one way to play and how much of your target language you explore with it is totally up to you. I find it a nice change of pace from input-based learning. The game is kind of like a really high-quality, wide-angle lens that gives you a huge perspective of the tiny dot that you are in this massive language learning space. There's a lot of potential with these cards. You can even make up your own rules and your own ways of playing."

Lamont McLeod

DAYS AND WORDS

★★★★★ 5/5

"Language Guardians is really cool! It's available in multiple languages. And it doesn't matter what language you are learning as long as, obviously, you can understand the language of the version printed on the cards, so it's suitable for any language. What you have are different colors and categories you can match, and the colors change what your task is. Green is nouns, blue is verbs, black and white is adjectives, and red is sentences.

Lindsay Williams

LINDSAY DOES LANGUAGES

★★★★★ 5/5

"The really nice thing about the Othertongue games is they cause you to think about very specific words that you don’t normally think about. It’s gamification of language learning, which I think is fun. If you’re learning a language and you like card games, you should definitely try these."

Aaron Cox

FINGTAM LANGUAGES

★★★★★ 5/5

"One thing that Phil and I liked about the Language Guardians game was that there were lots of different topics. Motivation and enjoyment are a huge part of language-learning and if you don't have those things, then eventually you're going to fizzle out. I think this is a good way to keep learning fresh, keep it fun, and it encourages you to learn languages with other people who are potentially native speakers of the language you or trying to learn or people who are learning the same language that you are trying to learn. When you go to board games stores there aren't a lot of games for language-learning, so I think there's a pretty big niche for this. I started playing this game with my students for French, and they love it!"

Michael Cristiano

The Polyglot Files

★★★★★ 5/5

"I always say that the best way to learn a language is to speak it and these cards are a great way to do that no matter which language you're learning! It's a very interesting way to learn a language, completely different from what any course book would offer you. The games are challenging for sure, but they're challenging in the right way and they encourage me to learn even more words and sentences. There are different difficulty levels on the website, too. If you're looking for a way to learn something useful while hanging out with your friends, these cards are a great, great way to do that. This is the first time I'm seeing something like this. I've been looking for ways to learn languages for a long time and all I could find was YouTube videos, apps, or books, so that fact that something like these cards exists is a very big innovation.

Agata

TheUNFOCUSED

★★★★★ 5/5

"I love using games as a way to measure what I know and what I need to work on. And this quick, beginner-friendly, and most importantly, customizable game, Language Guardians, is a great way to do just that. This game was so great because we were able to learn something new from each other in Korean even though we were at different levels. And since the game is a study tool, you can choose to work together for the language challenges. Overall, I recommend this game to anyone who wants to add a fun resource to their study plan."

Tiara Youngblood

SPEAK IN SPADES

★★★★★ 5/5

"When I think of these games, I think of classrooms, libraries, game cafes, and language resource centers. They could be used in so many different places! Another thing that I really like is that there are tutorials for how to play these games on the Language Card Games YouTube channel."

Angela Pegarella

PassionforDreaming

★★★★★ 5/5

"One of the things I like most about the Language Guardians card game is simply the visuals. The visuals are really cool, which makes the cards more interesting to look at. I really like the simple gameplay because I sometimes play more complex board games and I don't really have the patience to learn a lot of rules and take an hour to get into it. I would say this game is not for complete beginners, though. There's nothing too extreme, but some things might be a little difficult for complete beginners. But you could just remove those cards from the game. It is quite adaptable."

Kevin Pinho

Kevinabroad

★★★★★ 5/5

"I really enjoy using Language Guardians with my students (some other people even joined us a few times). It is fun, and it sparks conversations organically, which is always amazing for language teachers. You can also try using only certain cards when you are teaching specific vocabulary. It's a tool to have in your teaching bag! My only regret is not having a way to use it with my long distance students!"

Marie Drouvin

JUSTFRENCHIT

★★★★★ 5/5

"Matthew is not only extremely knowledgeable and sensible when it comes to language learning, he also understands the purpose behind language games and how they can serve our skills efficiently. I could immediately feel he put his heart and soul into creating a well-designed, intriguing, challenging game that invites us to practice a variety of vocabulary. I found the cards so pleasant to look at and the game rules so accessible; they can be easily played by different kinds of people. The best part? You can play it using *any* language you're learning at any given moment, which automatically makes me love it! You can play it again and again and still feel you're being challenged. Highly recommend!"

Maria Ines

SMART POLYGLOT

★★★★★ 5/5

"As an educator and gamer, the part I loved most about playing Language Guardians and Fighting Flashcards was the way they ignite your imagination. The game instructions themselves encourage you to try different variations, use only certain cards for certain game types, etc. But just playing the games results in all kinds of ideas for twists on the games, ways to practice different language skills, ways to use flashcards, and so on. Sure, anyone could create their own language learning games with pen and paper, but having these fully realized games in front of you really sets the stage for quickly building on what’s already there with new ideas."

John Pasden

SINOSPLICE

★★★★★ 5/5

"I am so happy with my deck of Language Guardians. In my teaching and my language learning, I like to play games but sometimes I don’t feel like adapting a game to language learning, so I was delighted to come across Language Card Games where all the games are created with the purpose of using them specifically for language learning. What I love the most is that Language Guardians is more than a card game that you have to play with other people, it is also possible to use for self-study, which is something I was looking for. It is so nice to have something that isn't digital to practice languages with too. Nothing beats holding cards in your hand and allowing yourself to step away from your gadgets for a while. If you like card games and you like language learning, look no further. This game is for you."

Vickie Kelty

VICKIE KELTY

★★★★★ 5/5

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