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We made a free site for German vocabulary: spaced repetition + a train game. Feedback welcome (vokabahn.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Vokabahn@lemmy.zip to c/german@lemmy.world

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Hi all! We built Vokabahn, a free German vocabulary site, and would love honest feedback from people learning German.

Study: 15,000 words from A1 to C2, ordered by how often they're used. Each card has native-sounding audio, the article and plural, and a real example sentence with translation. Spaced repetition brings words back right before you'd forget them, with a daily goal and a streak.
Vokabahn Express: a 3D train ride across Germany. A German word appears on your train and you switch onto the track with its meaning: https://vokabahn.com/game/vokabahn-express

It's free and stays free, no account needed (Google sign-in only syncs progress between devices). We made it, so criticism is very welcome, especially about the word choices and translations.

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[–] lucg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

Am I correct in assuming that the "we" in the post above is Claude and you, and that that also answers my dodged data source question above?

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[–] Vokabahn@lemmy.zip [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, we use AI tools, Claude and ChatGPT among them, the way a lot of small projects do now. They’re tools, not the authors: a lot of hands-on work has gone into the content, and it keeps being improved. Vokabahn has been in the works for over three months. It started as something to help ourselves and other learners, and grew into a full study mode plus several games.

The sources aren’t hidden either. They’re on the About page (vokabahn.com/about/legal): English Wiktionary for the meanings and Tatoeba for many of the example sentences, credited under their licences.

On blocking AI crawlers: it’s a small, newish site, and bots were hitting it with hundreds of thousands of requests. That slows things down for actual learners and costs real money to serve. Search engines are welcome; scrapers and training crawlers aren’t. It’s free to use, and it stays free. (AI still crawls the site and gets all the data it needs from it, but this reduces it)

Vokabahn isn’t meant to be anyone’s only study material; it’s a helper that makes daily practice fun, especially the games. If someone picks up even a couple of new words, that’s already a win. A few learners have passed 2,000 words each ( Since the 1st of October ) , and honestly, that’s what gives us the motivation, and also the experience of doing something fun for us and hopefully for others.

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