LanguageLearning

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6956399

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Hi everyone. I've joined many in-person language exchanges and always found it hard to get the whole group engaged or get something out of it. Maybe someone is a beginner or they can't really teach their own language well. The idea with this game is anyone from any level can practice both their target language and help others practice theirs. It's free, no ads and currently only on ios. The game is called word head. It's focused mostly for beginners and B1. The idea is, in a group, one person has to guess their target language word from a set list of words in a category. Everyone else has to give hints (in your target language or your native). For example, if they choose an easy difficulty and the category is Food, they have to guess from a list of 20 foods. Afterwards you can swap the language and the other players can practice from the English words.

Languages:

• English
• Español
• Français
• Deutsch
• Italiano
• Português
• Arabic
• 中文繁體
• 中文简体
• 日本語
• 한국어

For now it's only on ios: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6753888185 It's called Word Head.

I'm also looking for feedback:

• I'm considering removing the hard diifficulty level and combining it with Easy / Medium + 10 harder words.
• I'm also considering adding a hint function to give a person a hint in their target language how to give hints for the word. For example, the word is "hot", the hint to explain the word might be "not cold"

As an English speaker learning German, I face endless confusion and frustration with many of the short question words that are "False Friends"

Such as:

Wer (where) - Actually means who.

Wo (Who) - Actually means where.

Wie (We) - Actually means how.

Was (was) - Actually means what.

Also (also) - Actually means so.

Will (will) - Actually means to want.

And the completely arbitrary gender assignments!

For example.

The year is: Das Jahr, a neuter word.

The month is: Der Monat, a masculine word.

And the week is: Die Woche, a feminine word.

And then there's directly counter-intuitive examples of words that seem like they Should be a gender other than what they are, such as:

The little girl - Das Mädchen (Neuter, not feminine)

Breasts - Der Busen (Masculine! Boobs is masculine!)

Person - Die Person (Feminine! Why isn't this word neuter?!"

I know Anki is the most popular by far, but what else does everyone else use? I'm currently listening to a Mass Effect Legendary playthrough in German. I use https://yourdailygerman.com/ to learn grammar. And I made a custom app to help me learn vocabulary in a way I find a bit easier than Anki.

What does everyone else use?

I moved to Germany about a year ago, so my reasons are pretty obvious. Why are you learning your target language?

What languages are you currently learning?

What languages do you speak already?

Hello. I decided to make this community, since I didn't see any that related to learning languages. I currently speak English as a native speaker, and I'm working on A1 German. I made this simple web app to help me practice vocabulary. I find most flashcard apps to lack repetition on weaker words, so I made one that naturally focuses on the words you struggle the most with.