I know Anki is the most popular by far, but what else does everyone else use? I’m currently listening to a Mass Effect Legendary playthrough in German. I use https://yourdailygerman.com/ to learn grammar. And I made a custom app to help me learn vocabulary in a way I find a bit easier than Anki.

What does everyone else use?

  • emb@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    For Japanese:

    • Genki I & II grammar textbooks (w/ corresponding TokiniAndy YouTube lectures)
    • Anki to drill the vocab
    • JPDB (less great at spaced repetition than Anki, but easier making cards plus it bridges Kanji)
    • Remembering the Kanji book for learning Kanji, w/ Kanji Kohii companion app
    • Tadoku graded readers and NHK Easy News for reading
    • Comprehensible input Youtube channels and podcasts

    I’ve also used HelloTalk before to talk with native speakers (but only for Spanish so far). In the future tho I think italki (paid private tutoring) might be worth pursuing instead of language exchange.

  • suff@piefed.socialDeutsch
    2·
    1 month ago

    For Mandarin

    • Pleko = Swiss army knife for hanzi: dictionary, optical character recognition (OCR), vocab trainer, writing trainer, additional paid content like lessons, exercises, books
    • Anki = FOSS vocab trainer
    • Chinese In Flow = a fun gamified vocab trainer; Google removed it from the Play Store recently IDK why… time to release it on F-Droid
    • ChinesePod = daily in different flavors: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced (also available in your podcatcher)
    • Craig’s list, ebay or your local shop platform for finding online teachers or tandems.

    I cannot really recommend Duolingo as you’ll stop making progress at some point due to stacking repeatitions.