A few months ago I started using Anki to fill the massive hole in my knowledge of German vocabulary. I've since studied more than 1600 flashcards and it's helped me immensely. Anki will automatically space out repetitions of the cards for you depending how difficult or easy you found them. This is called spaced repetition and is an evidence based way to remember things in the long term. Just make sure to force yourself to do it every day.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/ It's free and open source

For German learners, here is the deck that's helped me the most: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/653061995

4000 words may seem like a lot but it's worth it. Every word has an example sentence, audio sample, as well as plural forms if a noun and for the verbs some conjugated forms and simple past and past participle.

also it's good for remembering other shit too. med students use it religiously

  • Leper_Messiah [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Hey thanks for the tip! I'm gonna use this to see if it helps me get out of the rut I've been in when it comes to trying to learn Russian :fidel-salute:

    • Mike_Penis [any]
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      2 years ago

      :chavez-salute:

      Good luck. I actually just download an Anki deck of the Russian alphabet because I wanted to be able to read Russian Cyrillic instead of it just looking like nonsense. It ain't easy.

      • Leper_Messiah [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I've got the alphabet down, I'm just nowhere near conversational yet. Got a bit stuck on all the goddamn tenses, then i saw a bit of advice to just ignore that until you build up a decent vocabulary so that was my next step. Been kinda unmotivated tho, hoping this shakes that

        Heres the youtube videos i was using to help with the aphabet btw https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx1Hrg5Bg3xrnm30dNPZ5q2R9J6Zz2vUq