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Was ist denn das?
Picture-to-word matching
You see a picture and choose the German noun that matches it, round after round. Match a picture to the German noun. The task practises picture-supported noun recognition.
Skip English translation entirely. Pair each German word with a picture or a real-world meaning and recall it under light time pressure. Picture-to-word drills like this game build picture-supported recognition with repeated retrieval cues, which can help you respond faster than translating in your head.
Open this page on any device and start playing. It runs straight in your browser, ad-free. Each round shows you a picture and asks for the German word - a single short session covers dozens of high-frequency nouns and works as a complete vocabulary workout in 5–10 minutes.
Yes. Decades of cognitive research (Paivio's dual-coding theory, 1971 onward) suggest that words encoded with both an image and a label are often remembered better in image-supported learning tasks than words learned from a translated word list.
As rough learner heuristics rather than official CEFR requirements: around 500 words tends to cover basic survival German (A1), 1,500 helps with comfortable everyday conversation (A2/B1), and 3,000–5,000 puts most learners around confident intermediate (B2). CEFR itself is competence-based, not a fixed word-count scale, so treat these numbers as ballparks. Daily picture-based reps are, in our experience, a useful way to grow that base.
Short, frequent sessions tend to beat long ones. Five to ten minutes a day, most days, generally outperforms one 60-minute session a week - that's the spacing effect (Cepeda et al. 2006) at work. Game-based exercise makes it easier to stick to the daily habit.
Yes. The vocabulary set is built from high-frequency A1/A2 nouns, and because the prompt is a picture rather than an English word, you can start drilling from your very first day of German.