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I was reading that the reddit community "languagelearning" doesn't allow language-specific posts and comments. Fortunately we are not on reddit and we do allow it!

There's quite many of us keeping an eye on this community, so if you've got questions/thoughts/personal wins or losses: don't hesitate to post!

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am using two services with SRS features:

  • Wanikani, to learn new Kanji (Chinese characters) and vocabulary, there is a massive amount of these and it's very helpful to have a service designed entirely for it.
  • Bunpro, to learn grammar and use the words I learned in actual sentences, which is also hard because words seem to have 10 meanings sometimes, or there are words which mean roughly the same but not really.

Wanikani is especially good, because it offers an API. I have a browser extension that marks every kanji red or blue depending on if I theoretically know it. It also shows my notes, the readings, the meanings, and mnemonic for the kanji if I hover over them. Bunpro can work with this API too, so it's all well integrated.

The resources that exist for 日本語 learners are pretty amazing!

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! Honestly this would deserve its own post - hope people learning see this!

I also extensively use browser tools on my learning path and try to read stuff online since I can translate and instantly take notes. Pretty neat that you have an extension to do all that and that there's an API you can use. I use my Joplin notes but might have to consider something similar...

And yeah resources are plenty it seems and that's good. German also has plenty of online resources so I'm happy, but sadly many other languages don't have much yet :(

[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What are a few of the resources you've found most helpful for German? I'd like to dabble in it some day, even though I've currently got my hands full with Japanese.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

One of the online resources that really helped me in the beginning was from deutsche welle: https://learngerman.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-9528

Another one was "coffee break german" podcast on spotify. Slow, easy and enjoyable podcast that helped me get used to speech!

dict.cc has been awesome online dictionary between english and german, and https://www.duden.de/ for e.g. figuring out the article of a noun.