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Originally Posted by ArcheM
There's more apps than you can shake a stick at, and most of them are a swindle. Just kidding, I haven't even checked that many apps out. But considering, well, you know, the market, which consists of people pumping out as many clones as they can... Well...
Anyway, I still have some hope about the game idea. But beyond the grammatical complications, I still don't have any good idea as to what it could be about. Took a shower with the specific intention to figure that out (if that makes any sense), only got so far as it could be about searching for a person (in a foreign land, I suppose). And also, at the start you get told an absurdly complicated word (which is most of them in German :-)) and have to eventually figure out what and why. Except the problem with this idea is that, depending on your level, it might not be complicated enough... or instead, too complicated... But it's kind of interesting. A mystery...
Oh, about the lyrics. Nothing really wrong with the translation, except I don't see why the word order has to be changed in the third line. It sounds just as fine in English. That is - "It is the brightest star of all".
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The apps I found were a surprise to me, these you don't have to pay for, they're free, but some have ads that make you have to get through before going on to say the next lesson. Hopefully there aren't any errors with the grammar app, but the dictionary app isn't the best, it translated "der" to "that" instead of "the" so it may word for some things but not others.
The song I found the translation on a website that has translations of song lyrics, and for this song there were around 29 translations to it, I went with the first one. It does make more sense to have the third line as "it is the brightest star of all", I even did that translation in my head because it made more sense than "it is the brightest of all stars", but I posted what I saw on the website. Like I said I was able to translate the first, second, ANF fourth lines, but the third I had to look up it was only a couple words I didn't know, I knew "drei" and "Stern" "ist", and "der", "sie" I though usually translates to "she" (well according to Duolingo that is one translation), or "they" so I don't know where or how it translates to "it's". It's like another song that I always seem to have stuck in my head called "Reich mir die Hand" which where ever I look is translating to "Give me your Hand", but "reich" means "rich" and "die" is "the" so how the H*ll is it translating to "Give me your Hand"? These types of translations are also what I'm getting and going to get stuck on.
The ideas you're coming up with for the video game are good, the complicated word idea sounds good, my friend shared with me a word (it was actually a title of a law), and the word had to have been atleast 20 letters long, he didn't give me the exact translation, but it looks like it could translate to a whole sentence, but was all one word (and there was no way in H*ll I could pronounce it). You would probably have to find a word that is inbetween too complicated and not complicated enough (I wouldn't know any yet though).