Learn Chinese – learn Mandarin – Learn the names of Chinese games — How to say “Besides learning Chinese, I also love playing Chinese chess game” in Chinese: 除了学中文， 我也爱玩象棋游戏。Chu2 le5 xue5 zhong1 wen2, wo3 ye3 ai4 wan2 xiang4 qi2 you2 xi4.

Learn Chinese – learn Mandarin – How to say “Besides learning Chinese, I also love playing Chinese chess game” in Chinese: 除了学中文， 我也爱玩象棋游戏。Chu2 le5 xue5 zhong1 wen2, wo3 ye3 ai4 wan2 xiang4 qi2 you2 xi4. Chu2 le5 (除了 besides) xue5 (学 learn) zhong1 wen2 (中文 Chinese), wo3 (我 I) ye3 (也also) ai4 (爱 love) wan2 (玩 play) xiang4 qi2 (象棋 Chinese chess) you2 xi4 (游戏game). 除了学中文 besides learning Chinese, can also be expressed as 除了学中文以外。 以外means beyond something that is mentioned already, and in this sentence, it is zhong1 wen2 中文. Thus, 除了学中文以外 means beside Chinese and beyond Chinese. Chess in Chinese, we called it western chess 西洋棋 xi1 yang2 qi2. Go game, another famous Chinese dots game, we call it wei2 qi2 围棋. For checkers, we call it tiao4 qi2 跳棋.