Language Learning

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31122420

Moved to sundays since it seems saturdays don't work well for people (including me) :)

Anyone has experience speaking without someone to correct your mistakes?

In the past I’ve mostly done Anki for Chinese and Japanese but am looking for something else since I’ve fallen off Anki.

For Chinese I really need a service that I can read and OCR words to easily identify in a dictionary. I’m at a high intermediate or low advanced level but looking up words is annoying.

For Japanese I just need input for an intermediate level.

• Clozemaster?
• Italki?

Listing services I’ve found

• Clozemaster (but has a bad model now)
• tutor with something like italki
• Anki
• busuu
• librelingo

I have been using video games as a mean of learning German and it works pretty well. I just wanted to share a few titles that work nicely for me.

• Epistory (typing game) great to get used to writing simple words but the story can only be listen to in English.
• Knights of honor (a grand strategy game), nice to expand vocabulary and seeing over and over again the same words, can be easily paused to translate stuff
• the curse of monkey Island (point and click), the vocabulary is much harder here, but the voices and text are really well made.
• I have not tried it, but I also saw Wonderlang which is a RPG specifically dedicated to language learning.

Does anyone have other recommendations, for German or for other languages?

Hallo!

So I thought that maybe we have people here who can help me with this:

I'm having a lot of trouble understanding when to use Dativ vs Akkusativ in German. I understand that specific prepositions require specific cases, but in general I often find myself applying the wrong case in a sentence.

In some sentences it is quite clear:

Ich habe den Stift gekauft. (Pen being the direct object that is being bought)

But there are cases like this:

Ich schlafe in meinem auto in meiner pause (I know the order is wrong, but the cases seem to stay as they are even if you change the order)

Here I would have thought that the car is the direct object. I struggle with this a lot and often apply akkusativ case wrongly.

I would appreciate if someone could help me with understanding this better. For example: Why is the car not the direct object in the above example?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27560930

Late by two days 😎

Currently, on Steam we can search by "Language" but it does not have any option to search by "Language Audio". Came across this site SteamDB that solves that.

This is really useful for people looking for games that have audio in their target language. There is option to search by subtitles too. You can also exclude english to find game that are only in your target language

I found out about languagedrops in this post: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23380411

And was wondering if it's any good?