#clozemaster

[neristudy]

If you haven't used Clozemaster before, it may be time!

Semi-recently, they added two really interesting and useful decks - “German idioms” and “ (German) everyday phrases”. Both are very useful and really use grammar and words you might hear in everyday life - which is very useful for foreigners/fellas who just wanna learn better german!

A few examples?

Here's German Idioms:

And here's Everyday life:

As you can see, no “Ich bin ein Apfel” and other useless/random/silly phrases that only waste time. Only the stuff that can be really used in life!

Very helpful to develop your vocabulary! owo

[my-language-voyage]

[sololangs]

I'm sure many people are familiar with this resource already but I wanted to share it in case it could help you!

Clozemaster is language learning gamification through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. Great post-Duolingo app and useful for languag

Clozemaster is basically a fill-in-the-blank game where you can do thirty questions per day and build your active skills + use the language in context. You can choose either multiple choice (I do this for Russian because I'm still a beginner) or type the answers (I do this for French).

I really like the UI design!

(Literally just made an account today lol)

[wes-breaks-your-kneecaps]

A sentence I got on Clozemaster a while ago

[nearlydark]

I just went down a rabbit hole of new (to me) language learning resources since I’ve been away from the community for some time and holy shit there are some really cool things?? This app/site Clozemaster seems pretty helpful; you fill in a word in a sentence, each language seems to have 10k+ sentences, but I guess it’s better to know the basics in a language before doing this (I can get by in Polish on there rn basically from knowing Russian and Ukrainian lmfao but otherwise I would have no clue on most of the words). I also found Readlang, which would be pretty helpful when trying to read an e-book bc you can see the translation right there on the page (I was basically doing this for Russian; downloading pdfs of books and highlighting words I didn’t know and then looking them up lmfao fuck). Technology is amazing sometimes

[the-era-of-sad]

🤨Some strange sentences from my duolingo lessons / clozemaster.

[der-schmetterling15]

What I learned after doing Duolingo, Busuu, Clozemaster and Babbel lessons every day for 60 days

So, a few months ago I realized my skills in German actually suck because I'd been using A1 language most of the time (I teach beginners up to B1 level), and I had not been reading or listening to spoken German other than movies and series. As a result, imposter syndrome and terrible self-esteem hit me really hard, and I decided to take action. At the moment, I can't afford conversation classes or a German course to get my B2 certificate (and I clearly wouldn't pass a B2 test). I had been doing Duolingo for years and I managed to achieve a streak of 784 days, but the German lessons were too boring for me (I had finished the entire German course, but they added new content). I didn't want to lose my streak, so I decided to start another language there just for fun (I was tired of Spanish as well), then I chose Italian, and it's been amazing so far.

After searching for some materials online, I decided to download Busuu again. I took a placement test and they told me to do the B2 course. However, I felt like I needed a recap on some topics, so I started B1 course there (I'm finishing this week!) and it helped me a lot. Interacting with others while having your exercises corrected is actually great, so as correcting people's exercises. Besides, I started a list on Quizlet to help me memorize new words and expressions.

As for Babbel, I paid for one year of German because the price was really good, and they sent me to B2 as well. I finished all the B2 contents and did the B1 courses as well, and they gave me two live classes for free. I was terrified of participating in them because I wasn't very confident I could speak to foreigners, but I did it and it was really nice. The teacher and the other participants were amazing, and the cultural exchange was very beneficial.

I discovered Clozemaster after interacting with a polyglot girl I follow on Instagram. It may be simply "fill-in-the-blanks", but it really helped me memorize some structures and also review stuff I hadn't seen in a long time.

I was feeling so awful before that I considered quitting German and doing something else (new information: I monetized my hobby and now I hate my life lol), and of course the impossibility of moving to Germany made me feel even worse. I can't apply for DAAD scholarships because I am not interested in academic studies at the moment, PLUS, I'm not getting any younger... A friend and former student recommended the Bundesfreiwilligendienst, and I am doing lots of research on that.

In conclusion, after doing all this for the past 60 days, I felt that I really improved my writing and listening skills (I had also stopped watching German tv shows because this made me really sad). I've been also searching for upper-intermediate books that can help me until I can pay for a course. Maybe next summer I'm going to Berlin for an exchange program, and then I'll try to travel to other cities and speak German there as much as I can.

[ruhua-langblr]

Clozemaster Pro-Tip:

Might do a long post on how much I like this app (esp as an anki-disliker), but what people NEED to know is that the radio mode is great but you have to unselect 90% of the English voice options because they sound so cursed. I don’t know why they have a death rattle option, but it is absolutely frightening. Save yourself the nightmare when thinking of falling asleep while studying and turn! them! off!