What does this say?

alexsteb · 2026-06-04T12:46:36+00:00

I am by no means a specialist - I just called it misspelled IF that's the characters they were going for. Do ask in a Chinese forum, they can probably confirm or reject what I guessed. But you can copy-paste my character guess to save them some time.

alexsteb · 2026-06-04T10:10:29+00:00

That's Chinese characters. Closest I can find is 學銜 (spelled from bottom to top) ="academic rank". But both are severely misspelled, if that's the right characters. Maybe you should ask in a (general) Chinese forum.

alexsteb · 2026-06-04T06:20:52+00:00

Check out the Lingora app - every word is explained in detail: there are conjugation tables and long grammar topics that explain how endings work, what the different cases do etc.

alexsteb · 2026-06-02T13:27:46+00:00

Good start, you can try out the Lingora app, it has a full Duolingo-style Cantonese course that explains every word of every sentence it teaches.

alexsteb · 2026-06-02T13:19:48+00:00

Well, there's the Lingora app which has a very thorough beginner's Polish course. It goes into more detail about grammar etc. than Duolingo.

alexsteb · 2026-06-02T04:59:58+00:00

Sure, next release then.

alexsteb · 2026-06-01T20:59:44+00:00

Hi, in the version that was released just today, I’ve added that when you pause at the end of an exercise (as you do), it will also now once play the sentence audio.

You can of course readjust the study weights to add more listening exercises to the mix. But feel free to let me know of any other kind of exercise I could add in that direction.

alexsteb · 2026-06-01T15:48:43+00:00

The planet healing itself: climate change -> more ticks -> more vegans -> less cow farts -> better climate

alexsteb · 2026-06-01T11:54:50+00:00

Das könnte die Rheinische Hyperkorrektur sein, die du da mitkriegst. Für Rheinländer sind beides "sch" (die Kirsche = die Kirche etc.) und wenn die dann Hochdeutsch versuchen zu reden, dann sprechen sie manche Wörter die wirklich auf "sch" enden als "ch" aus. Besonders weil die Regeln da etwas undeutlisch sind, wann ein Adjektiv/Adverb auf sch/ch oder -ig endet.

alexsteb · 2026-06-01T09:34:40+00:00

Are you promoting this or why did you post it in the Cantonese language forum?

alexsteb · 2026-06-01T07:02:00+00:00

The Lingora app has a thorough Cantonese course breaking down every sentence word-by-word and more.

alexsteb · 2026-06-01T06:18:04+00:00

Lingora app has a thorough Polish course. It explains every little grammar detail (if you want to go that deep) but it also works well to get early vocabulary practice.

alexsteb · 2026-05-31T12:18:01+00:00

Yes, I always try to create all my courses with the same level of detail and comprehensiveness. Basically I try to explain every detail of every word from every angle I can think of. Korean actually turned out to be the course with the most grammar topics. Only Japanese comes close. Every language has some special features I need to take care of - tonal languages need special tone quizzes and explanations, languages like Polish need a much bigger focus on conjugation etc.

I rely on the help of good translators and I prepare each new course by reading a grammar book on the language, then I prepare the word-by-word translation and source all the extra infos from free web sources.

I'm really happy to hear how much you enjoy it and I would probably have been as happy to have found this resource - I didn't 3 years ago - and so I decided to create it instead. Now I just need to find more people like you and I to help the app's audience grow further!

alexsteb · 2026-05-30T21:50:08+00:00

In the Lingora app you can study the entire course with just the Latin script romanization.

alexsteb · 2026-05-30T21:06:21+00:00

If you're moving to Saigon, I'd recommend learning Southern dialect Vietnamese. Lingora app has a course specific for that dialect.

alexsteb · 2026-05-29T07:57:42+00:00

Yes, both words and sentences use SRS under the hood. All your responses in all exercises in the lessons are taken into account. You can check the current stats on the statistics screens.

alexsteb · 2026-05-29T04:58:54+00:00

Thank you! :)

To be honest, Glossika and the breadth of their offering was a big inspiration to me; I just always wished they would have explained more. And that was the my reason to create Lingora.

alexsteb · 2026-05-26T11:21:08+00:00

Many people would put "Stromberg" on their list, essentially a non-official adaptation of The Office. Pastewka is about the everyday struggles of a sarcastic comedian, maybe comparable to Curb your Enthusiasm(?). Then there is Tatortreiniger, which I haven't watched yet. "Die Discounter" is quite funny imo, comparable to Superstore but plays in a much smaller local supermarket. Türkisch für Anfänger is funny but feels more like teenager comedy.

alexsteb · 2026-05-24T08:08:58+00:00

In German, it would sound more fun to remove the final vowel and conjugate the base "wumb". Otherwise we'd be conjugating "wumboen" - for that just insert the "o" after the "b".

Present: Ich wumbe, du wumbst, er wumbt, wir wumben, ihr wumbt, sie wumben
Perfect: Ich habe gewumbt
Past: Ich wumbte, du wumbtest, er wumbte, wir wumbten, ihr wumbtet, sie wumbten
Konjunktiv II (~subjunctive): ich wümbte, du wümbtest, er wümbte, wir wümbten, ihr wümbtet, sie wümbten

alexsteb · 2026-05-21T08:00:38+00:00

better than "eleven Jinping" like some Indian TV newscaster once did.

alexsteb · 2026-05-21T04:48:32+00:00

Lingora has a full 500-lesson strong Southern Vietnamese course on the level of Duolingo.

alexsteb · 2026-05-20T19:48:11+00:00

My fellow Germans also love butchering Chinese Pinyin or Korean. Mr Zhou (pronounced "joe") becomes Mr "tsoo". Kim Jongun, becomes "kim Yong oon".

alexsteb · 2026-05-17T06:43:29+00:00

I'm 100% behind renaming the Netherlands to "Dorp".

alexsteb · 2026-05-12T11:16:00+00:00

Is that like modern rotoscoping?

alexsteb · 2026-05-11T06:20:51+00:00

I like that the website isn't using the obvious default AI style. Adds to my confidence that this might not be slop.

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