That seems like the best option imo. Just decide on the spot which gender you want the word to be and go with it! I really don’t think it matters if my refrigerator is a man or woman lol.

Yeah, it’s the same in German. You don’t say Seven-thirty. You say Half-eight. A bit tricky. And german is the same qith sentence structure. The second verb always comes at the end of the sentence. Makes it so you literally can’t know the purpose of the sentence until you hear the whole thing. Which, is kinda ingenious actually. Means you can’t interrupt people.

As a German, do you have a difficult time remembering the genders of new words? Or does it come naturally?

That’s a really good point. I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

Really? I was trying to say both with every word to help with association, something along the lines of “I want to say the word Cat, but can’t remember the name for it.” I figured constantly saying Cat and Die Katze together would help associate the two together.

Really good points. I do something like this. I have 2 or 3 sentences in my mind that I use as the blueprints to make more. And for the non-regular conjugations, I have a spreadsheet.

And yeah, speaking out-loud is non-negotiable. Something I like to do, is speak the translation while reading the English word, and speak the English word while reading the translation.

Luckily for me, I have several short conversations in German every time I go to the grocery store, or want to buy a Döner.

Nice! My wife is from Argentina, so she actually has the exact same languages as you. She’s been learning German for about 4 years now. A good channel for German is EasyGerman on Youtube.

I’m struggling enough with German, and they’re in the same language family. I honestly cannot imagine trying to learn a language that shared literally no roots or similarities.

That’s awesome! What level do you think you’ve reached in your years of casual practice?

That makes sense. What language are you learning?

That’s fair. Though it seems like the existing communities are struggling, with mostly the owner posting weekly. And the one on Lemmy.World is dead, with the last post being 6 months ago. I’m going to keep this one going, it seems to be a bit more visible than the others.

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If Firefly is at all a predictor of the future, maybe we’ll all be learning it in the next century.

Goddayumn! Do you do anything other than study languages all day?

Danke schon! Ich bin heute 0!

Damn, I tried finding them but came up with nothing. Oh well. If the community dies, I’ll just migrate there.

I am currently learning German, as I moved to Germany last year. My native language is English. I’ve dabbled in Spanish, French, and Russian, but German is the first one I’ve had reason to really intensively learn.

That’s fair. But if you ever feel like using it, it’s extremely simple. Click on the Import Words button, then copy-paste literally any number of items in the following format:

Word1,Translation1

Word2,Translation2.

etc.

I don’t know if there is a limit to the number of words you can put in, but you can use an LLM to give it the words you currently have, and ask for 100 more all formatted properly. It’s how I’ve been expanding my word list, as I memorize the set.

Anki is admittedly, and undeniably, more powerful than my little tool. My little tool is just very specialized and easily expandable. Literally takes me 20 seconds to give an LLM my current word list using the Export Word List button, ask it for 100 more words, and to maintain the formatting. Done.

I honestly had an easier time making this app that going through the extensive Anki guides and tech manuals. Also, making new cards is easier in my app, in my opinion. I can make 400 cards in about 30 seconds and they’re automatically added to the Tier 1 list.