Der Die Das - German Grammar

I bought the book and paid for the upgraded app. I’m not really loving either. The explanations aren’t very good, and it’s not always clear how the rule relates to an item guessed wrong on the app. The word lists are full of exceptions that make the “rules”seem more like guesswork based on loose patterns and statistical likelihood. It seems like progress is less a matter of learning rules and patterns and applying them and more a matter of learning each individual word through trial and error. The app is proving to be a very frustrating experience and not much fun to use despite the attractive graphics. If I’m being honest, I don’t believe this approach has really succeeded in “cracking the code”of gender in German. It’s just providing a more focused, gamified opportunity to practice memorizing nouns with their articles the old fashioned way. Also, if you buy the book, the app should be free as a supplement.

I am appreciating this game and it was worth $3 for the adless version! A couple suggestions: • The new noun appears as a layer underneath the Der-Die-Das buttons, and has an ease on its upward movement which creates some drag in the game as I have to wait to see the word and especially its definition. I would love if the new nouns were positioned to be fully visible right away. • there’s also a lag issue for me as the more complex (yet very beautiful) scenes load, such as the Brandenburger rainstorm. • if the game could tell which nouns you got wrong at first and show those more often than the ones you always get right, this could be a more helpful study tool. • I like that levels are gradually unlocked. Further motivation could be created by the words moving faster as the points go higher, as well as a definite end to each round. When I got to the third category in a set, I played it way longer than was fun because I was waiting for another “unlock” reward that didn’t come. This game is well on its way to be one of the best in its category in the app store, and a few of these gameification tweaks would really help it shine and solve the big issue foreigners face learning noun genders! Thanks for you hard work!

Genders in German is one of the hard things that you just need to drill to get good at, so having a simple game like this that lets you do that in short bursts, and explaining WHY each word is what gender, is pretty great. The only improvement would be to add audio too, even if it’s just a robotic voice generator. Those sound bits get stuck in your head like music does, which can help you memorize words and their attached articles better. I hope the developer adds that at some time. But despite that one thing, for the one time price of $3 this app is deserving of 5 stars. I highly recommend it to any German learners. The free version is also good for the price, so you might as well try it out.