Welcome!

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title: Kolja Sam's Digital Garden

My mission is to make the world a better place by building excellent tools for learning.

Projects

The Secret Language App

• online here
• my sandbox to try out digital language learning strategies, methods and frameworks
• open source, local-first, free, privacy-conscious

Learn World Map

• map.koljapluemer.com
• my attempt to build a web game that teaches me where all the countries in the world are
• open source & free

Assisted Language Immersion With YouTube

• I'm attempting to build a satisfying flow that makes natural language videos accessible for beginner learners with just-in-time flashcard learning
• standalone-prototypes (code):
  • for German
  • for Arabic
• Chrome plugin

Essays

• 'spam in a can' in learning software

Dev Log

• I created an Obsidian plugin to publish my vault as plain HTML
• I made a Chrome plugin that helps you practice the specific vocabulary needed to understand a YouTube video
• I made an Obsidian plugin to give my notes usage contexts so that I actually use them instead of just hoarding
• Learning a language without reading or writing (secret language app mode)