Every word is a painting, and every noun has a colour.
NeoWords teaches vocabulary six words at a time. Each one arrives as a watercolour illustration with the article and the plural attached — because learning Katze and learning die Katze are not the same thing, and only one of them is any use in a sentence.
Three genders, three colours, and eventually you stop translating.
German gender is not guessable and not optional. So it is never printed in grey next to the word — it is the colour the word is wearing, on every card, in every exercise, from the first minute.
der Hund
der ApfelMasculine. The blue you will come to read before you read the word.
die Katze
die SonneFeminine — and the plural of everything else, which is its own lesson.
das Buch
das HerzNeuter. The one learners drop first and miss longest.
You meet six words, then you are asked for them six ways.
Recognising a word is the easy half of knowing it. Four of these six steps make you produce it — pick it out, build it from letters, type it, and then do it again cold at the end.
Painted, not stock. Spoken, not synthesised twice.
Every illustration is a watercolour made for its word. Every word is read by the same voice, checked clip by clip so that no row is narrated by two different people.
Three genders, plurals that have to be learned one by one, and country names that carry an article of their own — im Iran, in der Türkei.
Two genders and a plural article for each — los, las — on the same 248 rows, with every accent the words actually carry.
The same 248 rows, rebuilt in French: two genders, the indefinite article taught rather than the elided l', and its own recorded voice.
Four article forms for two genders — il, lo, la and the elided l' — drawn in the colour of the gender they mark.
European Portuguese, with os and as in the plural and the tildes and cedillas that make pão and maçã typeable.
The de words and the het words, which is exactly how Dutch is taught — and exactly the thing nobody can guess.
The complete picture course in English, with natural pronunciation, plural forms and examples — without pretending English nouns have gender.
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The words are German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch or English. Everything else — the meanings, the example sentences, the whole interface — is in the language you already think in.