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Fork, spoon, knife, by gender:
German: die Gabel, der Löffel, das Messer
French: la fourchette, la cuillère, le couteau
Spanish: el tenedor, la cuchara, el cuchillo
Same table, three answers. There's no rule here, only memory.
So learn the article with the noun, every time. 2,500 German nouns, most common first: clozemaster.com/l/deu-eng/ge…
Sleeping in, by language:
Spanish: pegarse las sábanas (the sheets stick to you)
French: faire la grasse matinée (do the fat morning)
German: ausschlafen (sleep yourself out)
Spanish blames the sheets. What does yours blame?
An endless radio station of Spanish songs, every lyric written at A2 or B1.
They're AI-generated, so there's always a next song at your level. Read along with synced lyrics and translations.
clozemaster.com/l/spa-eng/in…
Finnish has one word for drinking at home in your underwear, with no plans to go out:
kalsarikännit
Every language has its gaps. What word do you wish English had?
Polish: Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy.
Not my circus, not my monkeys. As in: not my problem.
English borrowed it. Which saying should we borrow next?
Pineapple is ananas in almost every language:
French, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish: ananas
Russian: ананас
Except:
Spanish: piña
Brazil: abacaxi
English: pineapple, a word that first meant pine cone
Three lanes: der, die, das.
A German noun is rushing at you. Get in the right lane before it arrives.
We made der/die/das into an endless runner, with a daily leaderboard: clozemaster.com/l/deu-eng/de…
Phrasebooks for 84 languages, from Wikivoyage's volunteer writers, turned into quick practice rounds.
French and Japanese, but also Tok Pisin, Yucatec Maya and Tunisian Arabic.
Free, no sign up: clozemaster.com/travel-phras…
France: 97 = quatre-vingt-dix-sept (four twenties ten seven)
Belgium and Switzerland: nonante-sept (ninety-seven)
Same language, way less maths. Belgians and Swiss also say septante for 70, and parts of Switzerland say huitante for 80.
Pulling someone's leg, by language:
Spanish: tomar el pelo (take their hair)
French: faire marcher (make them walk)
German: auf den Arm nehmen (take them on your arm)
Italian: prendere in giro (take them around)
How do you tease in yours?
The morning after, by language:
Spanish: resaca (undertow)
German: Kater (tomcat)
French: gueule de bois (wooden mouth)
Swedish: bakfylla (back-fill)
Brazil: ressaca (undertow, again)
What do you wake up with?
French learners: le or la?
The 2,500 most common French nouns, most common first. Pick one, hear it said, and learn the genders you'll actually use.
clozemaster.com/l/fra-eng/fr…
German just says what it sees:
glove: Handschuh (hand shoe)
turtle: Schildkröte (shield toad)
sloth: Faultier (lazy animal)
skunk: Stinktier (stink animal)
fridge: Kühlschrank (cool cupboard)
Now you know five German nouns. Their genders are another story.
der Handschuh, die Schildkröte, das Faultier, das Stinktier, der Kühlschrank. Practice the 2,500 most common: clozemaster.com/l/deu-eng/ge…
Themed vocab lists teach you "whisk" before "although".
The kitchen unit is fun. But the words you'll meet a thousand times aren't in any theme. They're the small, boring, frequent ones.
Learn by frequency first. Themes later.
Clozemaster's Fluency Fast Track starts with the most common words and works down: clozemaster.com/?utm_campaig…
Speak of the devil, and who shows up:
Spanish: the king of Rome (hablando del rey de Roma)
French: the wolf (quand on parle du loup)
Polish: the wolf (o wilku mowa)
German: still the devil (wenn man vom Teufel spricht)
Who shows up in yours?
German learners: the 2,500 most common German nouns, most common first.
Pick der, die or das, hear it said, move on. Learn the genders you'll actually use before the ones you won't.
clozemaster.com/l/deu-eng/ge…