Knowing relations between words can help understand their meanings and build a more connected vocabulary network. Here, you can explore parents and offspring and discover the whole family.
- shows how many children or parents the word has
- get the translations and a link
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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "namlich" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "namlich" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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Obviously, one of the best things about your site is your humor. In particular, you have great intonation. It would be nice to be able to download your audio examples and then be able to listen to them on repeat. A better version of Glossika or Speechling which have boring sentences. But when I right click on an audio example, I can’t download your audio. Maybe I’m doing something wrong? Maybe an additional feature you could add at some point? Sometime could like download all the sentences they liked as short mp3 files and then use the “shuffle” function to mix them up. A nice way to review. You could also slow down the downloaded audio too, which is often useful.
Offering a download button isn’t a big problem, I’ll think about it!!
But as for slowing down the audio… I actually have that function on the site, but I just realized that it’s not showing here on dictionary entries. I’ll add that in the coming days.
Awesome!!! I just meant that if I downloaded the files I wanted, I could adjust the playback speed myself.
Your speed button is working on my end, even in the dictionary entries. I’m using Chrome.
Yes, being able to download the mp3s would be a big help in being able to easily review material.
I’ve tried putting the sentences I like in Anki and using autogenerated audio, but your delivery (the way you speak) definitely makes things way more memorable and enjoyable.
Also, Anki is boring. But listening to audio files on repeat while you take a walk is an easier thing to do.
I think mastering a whole lot of cool sentences is probably a good way to improve one’s language ability, so …
Also, on the topic of speed, I think it might not be a bad idea when you make new entries that you record the sentences one time normal speed, and second time slow speed.
Yes, you can electronically change the speed, but then things sound robotic.
One of the problems that I have with the recordings of Speechling, Glossika, and even Anja’s course is that things are said so quickly that you don’t catch every detail.
If you use the Ouino program, which you suggested, one of my favorite features of their program is that every sentence of theirs can be played slowly or quickly. And the slow version is a professionally done recording where every case ending, conjugation etc. can be detected.
So, yes, I think in my ideal world I’d download the slow & fast versions of tons of your amazing examples and listen to them on repeat.
Thanks again! Your site is amazing!
“Your speed button is working on my end, even in the dictionary entries. I’m using Chrome.”
Yeah, I put it up yesterday :).
You’re totally right that having a slow and a normal version would be helpful, and I have thought about this, too, but I’m not going to do it, because it would take even longer to finish one article. And that would mean that I post even less than I am at the moment. I don’t really enjoy doing audios, to be honest. I like the speaking but all the post production, cutting it up and putting it into the post is some of my least favorite activities.
Awesome! Thanks for adding the speed button.
I totally get not doing a slow version.
It sucks that the audio is the hardest part, but I super appreciate the effort. I think most your subscribers do too.
But if it’s easy to enable downloading the audio files that would be an amazing upgrade. Thanks again!
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