I fully agree with you, but Anki (with pronunciation) got me 12k German words in...

forkrulassail on Feb 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A game to learn a new language

I fully agree with you, but Anki (with pronunciation) got me 12k German words in 12 months with 40 minutes daily where Goethe couldn't give me a functional understanding of German whilst travelling. Grammar and the functional language comes ter with constant translation or immersion with sites and experiences like the excellent DuoLingo.

forkrulassail on Feb 10, 2014 [–]

A specific problem I have with this very fun (I must say) site is that gender isn't shown with nouns.