der|die|das is a German language learning platform used as the intro German curriculum by over 1000 students at 13 schools including Princeton, Harvard, and MIT.

Features

Core features include:

• 16 chapters of vocabulary, grammar, and cultural content written by Princeton Senior Lecturer Jamie Rankin.
• Innovative vocabulary-acquisition approach to language learning based on word frequency.
• Interactive content including vocabulary definitions and pronunciation, audio, video, responses, and flashcards.
• For instructors - a system for viewing and downloading student responses for grading.
• For Jamie - a live CMS for editing and publishing slides for different institutions.

Tech stack

der|die|das uses the following technologies:

• Deployment: AWS (VPC, EC2, RDS, Route53, Cognito, Lambda, and SES)
• Terraform: for repeatable configuration of the above
• API: C#, dotnetcore, DbUp, Docker
• UI: TypeScript, React, Create React App, AWS Amplify
• CI: Gitlab