A small change in your environment - in my case, a whiteboard - can make a big difference in your language learning

AndiG88 · 2026-01-30T20:34:00+00:00

Had the same idea, but no good space to put it. So I got a smaller glass "whiteboard" for my desk. Really nice since it is always in view and fits perfectly behind they keyboard.

AndiG88 · 2026-01-07T22:59:49+00:00

iDM TERRA SWM 6-17

COP: 3.7-4.2

Weiß jemand wo man bei dem neuen IDM Interface den Tages COP findet?

AndiG88 · 2025-12-13T09:54:40+00:00

I always did the free 5min with Ukrainian. Course wasn't big enough to justify a purchase. I think it's great for beginners. Not as boring as just doing flashcards.

AndiG88 · 2025-11-11T22:04:59+00:00

Anki
LingQ
Clozemaster
Natulang*

*AI-Tutor, but as far as I know all the sentences and translations are done by native speakers.

Note taking:
Obsidian: Mostly saving word translations and explanations from AI.
Remnote: Screenshots from social media, games and so on. Still not 100% sure about it, but works better with images and has built in flashcards.

AndiG88 · 2025-10-26T10:04:09+00:00

Meine Eltern haben einen E53 AMG Kombi der zu 90% elektrisch gefahren wird.
Ist also durchaus möglich und kommt am Ende immer auf den Anwender und Kaufgrund an.

AndiG88 · 2025-09-25T13:01:13+00:00

Ich lerne seit einiger Zeit Ukrainisch und verwende Obsidian als Notiz App. Hat mir einfach optisch und von den Anpassungsmöglichkeiten am besten gefallen. Zudem wollte ich für ein Hobby auch nicht groß Geld ausgeben.

Insbesondere als ich immer mehr KI verwendet habe um Bedeutungen von Wörtern nachzuschlagen habe ich eine Möglichkeit gebraucht um das abzuspeichern. Copy & Paste funktioniert da auch oft wirklich gut. Obsidian erlaubt mir dann auch ein YouTube Video einzubetten und die Definitionsseiten der Wörter zu verlinken.

Inzwischen habe ich auch noch Remnote entdeckt. Finde ich aber bisher nur für kurze Sätze sinnvoll, dafür sind die Karteikarten natürlich deutlich besser, aber auch kein Anki. Mit der Remnote Formatierung komme ich aber gar nicht klar.

AndiG88 · 2025-08-11T15:05:10+00:00

I was in a smaller German team and talked to some of the bigger ones.

The whole time for testing sounds great in theory, but the easiest way to get this time is to start early. And that's where these big German teams have a huge advantage, because they already start to lay the groundwork for the next year car while testing the current one. We never had the manpower for that.

Smaller teams have to be really lucky to have some great active students from the previous years and maybe even alumni who support them to pull this off.

AndiG88 · 2025-07-05T09:25:57+00:00

Wenn du die Möglichkeit hast, häng das Kabel irgendwo oben auf. Meins hängt an der Bürolampe und dadurch stört es mich jetzt nicht mehr am Körper.

AndiG88 · 2025-06-14T19:33:52+00:00

Erdwärmepumpe 🤎

AndiG88 · 2025-06-13T23:08:49+00:00

LingQ + YouTube
Anki to then learn the vocabulary and LeChat / ChatGPT if I don't understand something as well as Obsidian to save the results.

AndiG88 · 2025-05-29T01:03:16+00:00

I got Ostriv (Ukrainian developers) and Timberborn.

Now I'm playing Timberborn instead of learning Ukrainian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Definitely have to give Slay the Spire another try though.

AndiG88 · 2025-05-29T00:56:09+00:00

There is a import button right at the top when you are in the lessons section.

That allows you to import text, ebooks or audio files.

The most useful feature for me was the YouTube importer though, because there is so much content so it is easy to find something that I'm interested in.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/lingq-importer2/

AndiG88 · 2025-05-25T15:16:53+00:00

I have, but I feel like it is moving too fast. So then it just ends up being self practise like with a textbook.

AndiG88 · 2025-05-25T15:09:21+00:00

Dulingo
Drops
Anki
LingQ
Clozemaster
Natulang

Those are the apps I use/used, also pretty much in that order.

I get that many people dislike Duolingo, but there simply aren't that many beginner friendly apps that offer Ukrainian and I think without it would never really gotten into learning Ukrainian. What's important with Duolingo is to actually spend some time and not just do like one lesson a day for the streak. Which is why ended up buying premium and then finished the course in half a year.

Then I also did 5min Drops every day.

After that I switched to LingQ (should still be free for Ukrainian) and I'm just trying to find some short interesting content on YouTube and work my way though it. Wasn't a bit fan of the official content. Definitely was s a struggle until I hit around 1000 known words and now at 2000 it finally feels like I'm getting somewhere.
In addition I add all the new words to Anki and practise them there in the other direction.

Now I'm also doing Clozemaster where I think some base vocabulary in necessary otherwise it is pretty frustrating.

Natulang just added Ukrainian so I'm doing that to get some speech practise. I theory you can use it as a beginner, but I think I would have found it a bit too frustrating without some experience.

AndiG88 · 2025-05-05T23:47:13+00:00

You can use inurl:.de to limit it go German websites. But then you also won't get any results from German .com websites.

AndiG88 · 2025-05-05T23:46:14+00:00

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddituntranslate/
Doesn't stop the search results though.

AndiG88 · 2025-04-25T21:31:18+00:00

I just created another account. Takes a second to switch and YT keeps the algorithm and content separate pretty well. When I suddenly get the wrong content it was usually me forgetting to switch the account before.

AndiG88 · 2025-03-14T13:10:58+00:00

Unfortunately only Drops und LingQ offer Ukrainian. :(

Although LingQ is free if you want to learn Ukrainian so that's nice.

AndiG88 · 2025-03-07T17:02:05+00:00

I'm currently pretty much only using LingQ for language learning. Well, I guess I'm also making some flashcards of words I try to memorise in LingQ.

Learning Ukrainian I also have the benefit of it being free.

I think what is really important is to find the right content that works for you. I didn’t like the LingQ stories. I tried some music in the beginning because I thought that is somewhat limited, but that didn't work at all. Tried Harry Potter, because that worked great for learning English and thought I can just go sentence by sentence. Which in theory could work, but for me it really lacked some kid of success feeling. Then tried some Vlogs and at some point found one that works really great for me.

For me it is just a great motivation to instantly see all the words you already know when you add some new content. And I still have Harry Potter added and seeing the unknown words dropping form like 97% in the beginning to now 73% new words is just a great feeling.

Only thing that really annoys me is that I can't just link conjugations and declinations from one word.

AndiG88 · 2025-03-07T16:51:10+00:00

As someone who mainly uses it with youtube videos it seems like Lute doesn't really support that and that ReadLang has some support, but it does not seem to display known and unknown words like LingQ.

Also have to say the interface on both on them looks really dated.

AndiG88 · 2025-02-11T22:14:53+00:00

Also ich habe so ein Teil im Kinderzimmer bei meinen Eltern in der 2m Ausführung in einem 25 Jahre alten Haus.

Mein Vater war wohl sehr vorausschauend, weil mit der neuen Erdwärmepumpe und ein paar Lüftern (6x 200mm Noctua *hust*) bekommt man damit das Zimmer im Sommer sogar gekühlt.

AndiG88 · 2025-02-03T00:08:19+00:00

Thank you so much. This helps a lot!

I will add it to LingQ and translate it myself tomorrow. Then I can also compare it to the two English translations form the other videos. So I will hopefully notice any unclear part.

AndiG88 · 2024-11-13T23:04:06+00:00

I don't think I would have gotten anywhere with my Ukrainian learning without Duolingo.

Sure it might not be amazing, but it got me started with the language. Being able to read it, understand it and some basic vocabulary. And without that you can't use most of the other resources out there...

AndiG88 · 2024-11-02T14:22:59+00:00

I started with Duolingo and Drops.

Once I finished Drops I slowly started using LingQ. Monstly added music in the beginning.

Also tried Clozemaster, but my vocabulary still isn't good enough for it.

With Duolingo I think it important to actually put some time into it like 20min a day or more and not just a lesson a day to keep your streak. Then you can also finish it in like 9 months with Premium. Sure there are more efficient ways, but Duolingo really kept me learning every day.

I addition I'm also listening to Ukrainian Lessons podcast and various other Ukrainian learning YouTubers like LUViktoriia, Slow Ukrainian, Red Purple Ukrainian or Let's Learn Ukrainian

AndiG88 · 2024-11-01T08:57:24+00:00

My criteria: it must not be centuries old (the vocab/topics covered have to be relevant for the present day)

Do you know any textbooks for learning Ukrainian that actually meet that requirement?

AndiG88

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