CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@larozeppeli thank you!! This is what I was aiming for!

@conniptions please do and let me know the results!!

I am definitely going to continue accepting the British spelling, if only because I am someone who both uses it (coming from Singapore) and uses the word "workweek" (for whatever reason, I don't feel like it's ever not been in my vocabulary).

@Ruhrnalist @pentup Excellent!! The 3rd mode, which has zero hints, even free ones (except for "next letter please") is currently the "challenging" mode

@conniptions Interesting! Do you use the term "working week" instead? If it's any consolation I accept British and American spelling! If they have a different number of blanks that's a bit harder to support though...

@pentup Ah yeah, I was looking for a more direct translation of the German I had there, and I think that's how most English speakers quote it! I might say "Translate word by word" or something like that and be less snarky about how no one says "nor any", because clearly someone does!

@divVerent Thank you! I'm not sure about the "how well it works" either, but teaching German isn't the main goal, it's to have fun exploring a new language without needing to memorise a lot of words and having a bunch of little epiphanies along the way Thanks for the -ieren examples, I should definitely include some of those cognates in a future level!

@pentup You're probably right there that people might think that there'll be a leaderboard for competitive. I was just looking for a C word that fit in between haha. Maybe "classic"? I will wait for more feedback before changing it but thank you for flagging it!

@pentup Thanks for your feedback! I'm using a simplified version of what I believe to be the standard syntactic analysis. Where it may seem not to be explanatory is the fact that "beer" is currently stipulated to be before "drunk". We can tell that that's the case when we start looking at the subordinate clauses where the verb doesn't move at all, though. We haven't gotten there yet! I'm not sure if this entirely addresses your question, but I think I get where you're coming from

@Sharonybaloney if you tap on a word (e.g. ich) and then the first blank, does it move?

@Oelnbod you need to put another noun in the first positions! Click on the current noun to return and try a different one! Same for both clauses.

@rubyjones you need to put another noun in the first positions! Click on the current noun to return and try a different one! Same for both clauses

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