Der Die Das

My favorite feature is collecting “favorites” so I can review past mistakes. I’ve definitely seen improvement in a couple months of using the app. It also exposes me to new words but I wish it had more complete translations and/or example sentences. I’d also like to see it tell me more about my progress… what’s my average score, not just my latest score? Within my favorites, how often have I gotten each word correct vs. incorrect?

This app has helped me learn the gender of some nouns I’m unfamiliar with, but in its current form it’s a little too bare-bones to be helpful. I know the app is not meant mainly to help with vocabulary, but it would be helpful to see the English translation to jog my memory or help with words that I don’t know. Also, the words seem to lean too heavily on words that follow consistent rules in their genders, like words that end with -in or -ung and are always feminine. I can see how this app could help with learning this pattern, but once you know it, it becomes repetitive to have so many nouns with the same endings, especially in the “advanced” and “expert” difficulties, which I hoped would include words that have genders that are more difficult to predict and have to be memorized.

This has been extremely helpful in memorizing the gender of nouns. I favorite the nouns I am learning and play the game often to instill the gender. I gave it only four stars because I would like to be able to easily see the English translation of the noun. Some words I learned last year, but do not regularly use, I have forgotten their translation. I do, however, remember their gender;)