Looks like this been made with AI. It seems too "clean" and simple and others have pointed out some issues.
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#33Nice, 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.
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#34Somewhat related: if you think German is hard, prepare yourself for the friendly and talkative culture :)
You're doing the Austrians and Swiss Germans a disservice :)
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#35The 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.
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#36I've tried lots of German text books, and 99% of them are essentially very easy grammar tests, which you quickly learn to fill, without actually learning to speak. In Goethe Institut's courses you also simply fill many tests, but in a group. This may help preparing for an exam, but not to learn anything.
That said, I'd love to see excercises on a really hard matter: verb controlling the noun. E.g. ich vermeide . And not just random verb + random object, but sequences of the same verb, to get it remembered.
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#37Your answer: fünfundzwanzig nach elf.
Correct: fünfunddreißig vor zwölf.
Your answer: mittag. Correct: punkt zwölf.
Your answer: acht Uhr. Correct: punkt acht.
Was zum Teufel?
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#39Native 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!
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#40Somewhat related: if you think German is hard, prepare yourself for the friendly and talkative culture :)
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 every syllable correct and they will still find a way to laugh at you. Ask for help in Germany and you will be ignored. Or better yet, "I don't want to help you." Then they wonder why people fail to learn their language. Frankly I wish I could unlearn the language.