We know that learning a language takes time, so it’s important to make the experience as enjoyable as possible. When you swap monotonous learning for fun language games, it’s much easier to clock up the hours and make steady progress toward your goals.
That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce hosted multiplayer games—a brand-new way to challenge friends, family, students, or colleagues. Read on to learn how to set up your own epic language-learning battles!
Our original multiplayer language learning game matches you with random Drops users to compete in exciting learning challenges. Users race against time to learn and review words and phrases, earning points for correct answers and bonus points for achievements like “Fastest Answer” and “Most Accurate”.
Hosted sessions make our unique multiplayer game even better by letting you battle against friends, family, students, or colleagues. Now, you can compete against anyone and add new levels of thrill to your language-learning experience.
Did you know that healthy competition is excellent for boosting learning outcomes, especially when it comes to languages? Most of us have a competitive streak, and our desire to outperform others pushes us to learn more consistently.
But competition doesn’t only encourage consistency. Competitive language learning games push us to recall and apply knowledge under pressure, which strengthens memory and helps us do the same in real-world scenarios.
Learning with friends also comes with multiple benefits, from increased confidence to holding ourselves more accountable. Multiplayer sessions tick all of these boxes and add fun to the mix, making them perfect for progressing toward your language learning goals.
You can host multiplayer sessions anywhere and with anyone. Here’s how you can bring them into your learning routine at home, at work, or in the classroom.
From chilled afternoons with friends to family rivalries over the weekend, hosted sessions are perfect for bringing some friendly competition to your home. The best part is, you don’t even need to be learning the same language. The host chooses a topic, and everyone can compete in the language they’re learning.
Hosted sessions are an excellent tool for language teachers and a great way to keep students engaged during revision sessions. Teachers can create lessons around the words and phrases in our topics, then end their lesson with a friendly competition to see which students have mastered the content.
Language learning has entered many workplaces, with lots of companies offering lessons to improve their workforce’s language skills. From a quick lunch-break battle to after-work get-togethers, hosted multiplayer sessions let you battle your colleagues and put your new skills to the test.
Ready to host your own epic learning battles? Getting things set up is refreshingly simple:
1. Set up your match
Start a match from the multiplayer tab on the app, and select the game mode you want to play.
2. Choose your topic
Choose a topic for your match. Players can compete in any language, but the topic will be the same.
3. Share the joining code
Your friends, students, or colleagues need to download the Drops app and join the match from the multiplayer tab using the joining code.
4. Let the fun begin!
Battle for the top spot on the leaderboard by answering the most questions correctly within the time limit.
Our multiplayer language learning games are free for everyone to try, but Drops Premium lets you choose any topic for your games. So, if you’ll be using multiplayer to study specific topics of vocabulary, it’s well worth subscribing.
Whether you’re looking for language games for students or fun ways to learn a language with friends, you now know how to host multiplayer sessions to level up your learning. Get started now on the Drops app and show your opponents what you’re made of!
There are many ways to learn with friends, from group study sessions to watching films together in the target language. Hosted multiplayer sessions on Drops are an excellent one to add to the list, as they combine collaborative learning with friendly competition to maximize your fun and focus.
Language learning is becoming increasingly common, so some of your friends are probably already learning a language or could be easily persuaded to start. If you can’t find someone to learn with, you can enjoy regular multiplayer sessions on Drops. We’ll match you with other language learners around the world so you can compete in a friendly competition.
Many apps like Drops gamify the language learning experience, helping you improve your skills and increase your knowledge by playing fun language games. By using spaced repetition and helping you build connections between words, images, and sounds, Drops helps you build confidence in 50+ languages with bite-sized, game-based lessons.
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"I like that you can switch between different subjects and topics constantly and it’s really easy to learn a lot of vocabulary very quickly! This works perfect for me because I can learn a lot of words but then practice sentence structure with my grandmother whose from Croatia"
"Fantastic app great opportunity to learn languages on your spare time. Drops makes it easy to learn and retain words to formulate sentences."
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"Love my fun language learning and practice with daily Drops sessions, and monthly Challenges to participate in, and quiz mode to test contextual learning - brilliant! So much thought, consideration and inclusivity has gone into the design and function of this app, I can't praise it highly enough."
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