How to learn a language from the things you listen to and watch — songs, stories, YouTube, shadowing — and how to keep the words you meet there.
LatestSongs
German genders don't follow logic, but they do follow melody. How songs make der/die/das stick — with real numbers from a German frequency list.
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Songs
Why songs beat flashcards for German vocabulary, and how original songs written around the most frequent words make it systematic.
Tools
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YouTube
Browser extensions, mobile apps and all-in-one tools for learning a language from YouTube, compared: subtitles, dictionaries, flashcards, retention.
Spaced repetition
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