kennen — to know, to be familiar with
A handful of words make up a sixth of everything said on screen. Kenne teaches words in the order they occur, brings each back just before you would forget it, and then asks you to produce it yourself.
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Enough to keep hundreds of words alive and meet ten new ones.
How it works
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Words come in the order they are heard in films and TV, so every one you learn is one you will actually meet.
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Left alone, a new word slips away: a week later you have about even odds of recalling it. Kenne brings it back just as it starts to fade, and each time it holds longer — days, then weeks, then months. Ten minutes a day keeps hundreds of words alive.
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Once you recognise a word, you type it from memory — with its article, or its stress — until it is yours.
der · die · das / он · она · оно
In German and Russian every noun has a gender. Kenne shows it in colour on every card — blue for masculine, red for feminine, green for neuter — so it sticks without a drill.
Try it: which gender is each noun? Click a key, or press 1, 2 or 3.
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Jahr
year
In the order people speak
The first hundred words already cover more than half of what is said in films and TV. A thousand cover most of it.
5of every 100 words in films and TV, with the first 1
Tap a card to turn it over, fling it away for the next — or use ← and →.