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Posted by predictand 1 day ago

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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xg15 1 day ago|
It's a really cool idea! Watch out for AI mistakes though, especially when generating content in a foreign language. I see one mistake in the "Time Short Form Game" image where the image has "habl" for what should probably mean "halb".

Also, I'm not sure if converting between 5 digit numbers and words is a good starting task, unless you want to dive right in with German's (in)famous word chaining ability.

predictand 1 day ago|
Yep, I noticed AI is terrible with words on images, and that seems to have slipped my attention. Thanks for the callout! I tried to keep the number games tamed by only going up to 3 digits.
donq1xote1 15 hours ago||
Got some problems opening your site. Love to see more such Gameficition Apps in the education area.
predictand 8 hours ago|
There was a small problem with the redirect after registration, but it should now be fixed. Thanks for trying!
8mobile 14 hours ago||
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 8 hours ago|
Thanks for trying! I have been using Duolingo as well and I definitely am considering to add more click-based games.
rcarmo 1 day ago||
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 23 hours ago|
Thanks! I definitely want to implement it as well to also make it more mobile-friendly
schluete 1 day ago||
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 23 hours ago|
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 23 hours ago||
> 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.

JayDustheadz 11 hours ago||
I apologize for an offtopic but...anyone happen to know anything similar for Ukrainian?
ghufran_syed 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago||
Took me to my local grafana instance, which was a surprise :D
predictand 23 hours ago||
oooo, good to know!
1718627440 22 hours ago||
For 'Numbers to Words' you could display the summary ordered by value instead of time. I guess that's more useful for a learner.
fnands 1 day ago||
Nice!

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

fainpul 1 day ago|
https://www.languagetransfer.org/courses#german
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