CONTENT & ATTRIBUTION

A collection you can inspect.

Dictionary-backed vocabulary, original bilingual practice, and transparent learning levels.

Stories: original fiction, transparent review

The Stories library is original adult graded fiction with separately authored English translations, source-linked vocabulary and contextual lessons. Published texts have model-assisted editorial assessments and automated structural checks. They have not received independent human or native-speaker review. CEFR labels are estimated reading bands.

The first benchmark target is five complete stories at each of A1, A2, B1 and B2. A separate 200-story editorial plan contains future outlines, which are not shown as completed books. Reading time and vocabulary exposure do not raise the Reflex Score; active grammar exercises use the existing mastery model.

Phrase lookups use authored translations where available. For other selections, the reader labels the full paragraph translation as surrounding context. Word forms without an explicit annotation are not assigned a guessed grammatical case or tense. Audio controls appear only for approved recordings; no recorded story audio is included yet.

The noun collection

The 235 original nouns keep their stable identifiers. The 1,265 additions use English Wiktionary meanings and inflection data extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract, cross-checked against the German Wiktionary-derived german-nouns dataset. We exclude ambiguous-gender entries, inflected-only entries, and many rare or unsuitable senses, then simplify selected glosses for practice.

Each added noun links to its dictionary entry. A stored plural is a selected dictionary form, not a claim that every noun has a common everyday count use. Some nouns have additional senses, regional genders, or alternative plurals beyond this collection.

The adapted dictionary and frequency data are shared under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0. Credit belongs to the Wiktionary contributors, the dataset maintainers, and the listed extraction tools. Changes include selection, gloss editing, simplified practice metadata, and normalized identifiers.

Levels and practice material

CEFR labels are suggested practice bands, not an official exam list. Added nouns use approximate frequency-based bands; subtitle frequency is only a rough guide. The 300 bilingual sentence templates and 18 passages are authored learning material, with case-specific explanations and explicit target nouns.

Local translation checking

Konjunktionen adds 31 connectors and 37 original situations, each with joining and translation practice. It includes clause-first tasks, curated alternative connectors, and feedback for specific word-order errors. These reviews also save separately from timed drill mastery. Levels are suggested practice bands.

The three teaching patterns distinguish coordinating conjunctions, subordinators, and connecting adverbs. Grammar references: University of Michigan: Konjunktionen and Leibniz Institute for the German Language: connector classes. Examples and exercises in this section are original, not copied from these references.

All exercises work locally without an AI service or API key. Passage feedback compares your writing with model translations and accepted alternatives, then highlights grammar targets. Unrecognized wording is marked for review. It may still be correct German. Passage reviews are saved separately from timed drill mastery.