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I have a long-running background process of trying to learn German. I can understand a fair amount, but have difficulty calling to mind the words when I want t say or write something.

I wrote a Monkeybars app to do a sort tof flash card thing with German vocabulary (see my IBM devWorks article), but for whatever reasons I don’t run it much.

I do, however, have a Twitter client running most of the time, and I figured I should be able to get Twitter to teach me German: http://twitter.com/teachmegerman

If you follow @TeachMeGerman you’ll get a tweet every hour with a vocabulary item.

I may adjust the interval, but so far this seems OK.

I’m not sure how many words are in the list; maybe 100. Each tweet is randomly selected.

Now the experiment is to see how well this sort of ambient education works out.