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.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean?
What do I mean? Where to start. Interact with some people from the region and you will find out. As most learners of German know, the hard part of German isn't der die das, it's the exclusive culture. I have C1 in German and have been told "You sound unnatural like a Turk" (I am not a Turk) and "Children sound more natural than you" (of course - they are native speakers). You can get every case, every article, and ev…
That's a sample size of 1.
When we moved to a German speaking country from the US some years ago, we didn't have that same experience at all.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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.
A hundred years ago you might've still commonly seen it spelled "dreiszig".
Re: Show HN: Learn German with Games
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
A hundred years ago you might've still commonly seen it spelled "dreiszig".
They are the same thing, when you don't use latin characters.
Re: Show HN: Learn German with Games
#105Learning German can feel tough, but turning it into a game makes it way more fun and less scary.
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#106thats very nice! i tried it! maybe a leaderboard would be cool
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
A hundred years ago you might've still commonly seen it spelled "dreiszig".
They are the same thing, when you don't use latin characters.
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.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are the same thing, when you don't use latin characters.
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 le…
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.
Re: Show HN: Learn German with Games
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 le…
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.
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