TEST PAGE Kunstkarten
Look up a noun, discover a new piece of art.
I’m learning German! One of my main tools is Spaced Repetition, also known as “hella flashcards.”
I created this tool to learn the 2000 most-used German nouns. Type in a noun, and it will generate the German translation and an associated reference photo from the Metropolitan Museum of Art archives.
Some of the matches are charming, some are esoteric, a few are downright incomprehensible (you’ll see), but all of them are memorable—an essential ingredient for creating enduring connections in your brain.
Don’t like the image? Hit the “Curate” button again for another option. You can even save your favorite cards from your session and export them to an Anki deck.
If you’re wondering why a certain image was generated, you can click through to see the item’s page in the Met Archive, and use the “find” command to see where the word was pulled from. For example, “chunk” actually refers to our pig pal’s decoration—On the pig's back is barbotine decoration inset with small chunks of colored glass—not her delightfully chunky form.
Bonus Content! A weird and unresolved Claude conversation about why it didn’t initially display profanity or the words “sex” and “nipple” (important nouns, culturally and biologically speaking!) in this prototype.