{"id":2347,"date":"2019-03-11T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/2019\/03\/11\/der-die-das-app-practice-german-articles\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T10:56:14","slug":"der-die-das-app-practice-german-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/2019\/03\/11\/der-die-das-app-practice-german-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Die Das App &#8211; Practice German Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humankind&#8217;s last mystery resolved: the correct use of der, die, das in German. A fun, hand-drawn app that makes you a pro in no time! Your favorite <\/span><b>Der, Die, Das<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> iPhone app &#8211; promised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Der Die Das App - German Article Rules\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cH_DkiKDrms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><b>My Story<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am Norbert, and even as a half-German, I struggled with der, die, das. As my daughter was born and I started to talk in German with her, I wanted to make sure, she hears the right articles from early on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grammar books are not much help, and even if you find some rules, they are incomplete, dry and hard to remember &#8211; and the idea of the best ever Der, Die, Das app was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Die App (or das, both are correct \ud83d\ude42 )<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn 40 secret rules that even your German teacher doesn&#8217;t know about. We created the &#8216;Zoo of Rules&#8217; &#8211; where walking across the zoo, you will find hand-drawn images and rules. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tig<\/span><b>er<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rule: Did you know that 70% of nouns ending in -er are masculine &#8211; meet the tiger rule! All colors are neuter and most fruits are feminine &#8211; and a lot more!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>A Fun game<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Play across beautiful hand-drawn scenery visiting the most iconic places across Germany, Austria and Switzerland:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brandenburg gate in Berlin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Baltic Sea (Ostee) in Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Belvedere Castle in Vienna<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neuschwannstein Castle in Bavaria<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swiss Alps (Matterhorn)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The app, which has been downloaded over 80,000 times, was transformed into a book in 2024. <a href=\"http:\/\/derdiedasbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Der Die Das book<\/a> has since been ordered by people globally to aid in mastering the rules. For more information about the book, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/derdiedasbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">derdiedasbook.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/id1456718449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8513\" src=\"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/apple-store-120x40.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humankind&#8217;s last mystery resolved: the correct use of der, die, das in German. A fun, hand-drawn app that makes you a pro in no time! Your favorite Der, Die, Das iPhone app &#8211; promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":{"first_post_thumbnail":"","post_thumbnail":"","home_slider_image":2351,"custom_class":""},"featured_image_big_url":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/apple-der-die-das.jpg","featured_image_url":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/apple-der-die-das.jpg","date_formatted":" 11, 2019","month_number":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}