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Posted by predictand 10/29/2025

Show HN: Learn German with Games(www.learngermanwithgames.com)
I just started learning German, and it has been a frustrating experience, to say the least. There are so many seemingly arbitrary rules that make pattern recognition very difficult. Therefore, I have been looking for ways to make memorization a bit easier and fun. So, I came up with a bunch of games to make learning German a bit more engaging. Hope you find it useful as well!
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rcarmo 10/29/2025|
Nice, but as someone who can read some German but not write it accurately, I found it rather hard to type any accurate answers. Having some sort of multiple choice options would be very useful to begin with.
predictand 10/29/2025|
Thanks! I definitely want to implement it as well to also make it more mobile-friendly
jjuliano 10/30/2025||
I did something similar back in 2019 but for learning Dutch with games, which I made originally for my child but this kinda helps me remember many A2 words and helps me with the exams. Now I have the Dutch citizenship.

Not as extensive as the site but with the images, interactions, it helps with remembering the vocabularies. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Joel+Bryan+J...

predictand 10/30/2025|
Very cool! I really need to work on my mobile development skills.
schluete 10/29/2025||
Native german speaker here, this is pretty nice!

One mistake I found though: in the clock game the game's solution for one o'clock times is "eins", like "eins Uhr dreissig" for 1:30am/pm. That's not correct, you'd use "ein" instead of "eins", so the correct solution would be "ein Uhr dreissig"

Keep up learning german, I know from non-german coworkers how hard the language can be to get a grasp on!

predictand 10/29/2025|
Thanks for the correction! That's good to know. I also noticed it isn't dreizig but dreissig, whereas it is vierzig (and not vierssig). I have to double-check whether it is my source that's wrong or just another exception to memorize.
1718627440 10/29/2025||
> dreizig but dreissig

Actually it's 'dreißig'. It can't be 'dreissig', since a double consonant like 'ss' indicates a short vowel, which a diphthong like 'ei' can never be.

chmod775 10/31/2025||
A hundred years ago you might've still commonly seen it spelled "dreiszig".
1718627440 10/31/2025||
They are the same thing, when you don't use latin characters.
chmod775 11/1/2025||
Interesting nitpick, but I must be missing your point somehow.

>They are the same thing

No, that's in fact not the same characters (obviously?), even if they can be used to represent the same phoneme and could thus be viewed as interchangeable. I've made it explicitly clear my comment concerned spelling though.

>when you don't use latin characters.

I have no idea how to parse this, given that all three of them are letters used in latin script. I suppose one of them wouldn't be considered part of the basic latin alphabet, but then your sentence still doesn't make sense to me.

1718627440 11/2/2025||
In German characters, there is now difference between 'sz' and 'ß'. 'ß' is in fact just the concatenation of the glyphs of 's' and 'z'. 'ß' only became relevant when the glyphs switched to Antiqua.

I don't know it German characters are considered to be Latin script or not. The number and meaning of characters is mostly the same, besides stuff like 'ſ', but the glyphs are all different.

1718627440 11/2/2025||

    s/now/no/
    s/it/if/
donq1xote1 10/30/2025||
Got some problems opening your site. Love to see more such Gameficition Apps in the education area.
predictand 10/30/2025|
There was a small problem with the redirect after registration, but it should now be fixed. Thanks for trying!
anakaine 10/30/2025||
These are flashcards at best, and thus become memory tools. There's little no no learning occurring here for someone who wants to learn German, but has not yet started. Sorry.

The layout looks nice.

8mobile 10/30/2025||
I tried the app because I'd like to improve my German. The UI is well-designed, but it would be nice to have prompts like Duolingo, as this is a bit too difficult.

I'll test it more, congratulations.

predictand 10/30/2025|
Thanks for trying! I have been using Duolingo as well and I definitely am considering to add more click-based games.
ghufran_syed 10/29/2025||
fyi, the account confirmation email redirects and ends up on a tab with address localhost:3000. looks like it did work, i was able to login after that, but many users may assume it failed and give up
vr46 10/29/2025||
Took me to my local grafana instance, which was a surprise :D
predictand 10/29/2025||
oooo, good to know!
fnands 10/29/2025||
Nice!

It's a bit similar to Grammatisch, although that just focuses on the grammar.

fainpul 10/29/2025||
https://www.languagetransfer.org/courses#german
1718627440 10/29/2025|
For 'Numbers to Words' you could display the summary ordered by value instead of time. I guess that's more useful for a learner.
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