Show HN: Learn German with Games

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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dravenCore 11/1/2025|

Learning German can feel tough, but turning it into a game makes it way more fun and less scary.

tEMporality7 10/29/2025||

Looks like this been made with AI. It seems too "clean" and simple and others have pointed out some issues.

predictand 10/29/2025|||

Yep, I definitely leveraged AI when building it; however, it is still built by me. So far it is a weekend project, not meant to be a production-grade app with polish.

whatamidoingyo 10/29/2025||

Vercel, React, Tailwind, and Supabase. Most likely made with AI. The hover animations area a giveaway too.

Panzerschrek 10/29/2025||

Your answer: fünfundzwanzig nach elf. Correct: fünfunddreißig vor zwölf.

Your answer: mittag. Correct: punkt zwölf.

Your answer: acht Uhr. Correct: punkt acht.

Was zum Teufel?

elaus 10/30/2025||

Yeah the clock game is weird. One solution was "fünfundzwanzig vor zwei" which I never heard in my life (native German). At least in my region one would say "fünf nach halb zwei" or "Ein Uhr fünfunddreißig".

1718627440 10/29/2025|||

Interesting. 'um X' gets labelled wrong as well. I guess at least with times OP needs to throw away the notion of the single correct answer. But yes a lot of these 'correct answers' sound uncommon in talking or in general.

1718627440 10/30/2025|||

A thing that OP might also not know: 'punkt acht' is 'precisely at eight', if you want to say 'eight o'clock', that's 'um acht'. The literally meaning of something being 'um' is, that something has passed fully, or is completed.

chopin 10/30/2025||

Your first one gets me puzzled. Normally, you take the shorter time to the full hour. Nobody says 'fünfundvierzig vor zwölf', for example. I never said or heard 'fünfunddreißig vor zwölf'. Before half past an hour everyone says '... nach elf'.

JayDustheadz 10/30/2025||

I apologize for an offtopic but...anyone happen to know anything similar for Ukrainian?

layer8 10/29/2025||

The Time Short Form Game image has a spelling error, and also the clock time doesn’t match the words.

This smells too much like AI slop.

predictand 10/29/2025|

I am a beginner to the language, and it is helping me remember the artikels and learn new words.

1718627440 10/29/2025||

How do you know it's correct.

predictand 10/29/2025||

I am going to the course at the same time and live in a German-speaking country. So, I am able to contextualize and cross-reference my learnings.

jimmydin7 11/1/2025||

thats very nice! i tried it! maybe a leaderboard would be cool

martin1027 10/30/2025||

It looks interesting!

ixxie 10/29/2025|

Sprachspiele!