German is closer to English than it looks, and it is spelled almost exactly as it sounds. Learn the letters, umlauts and ß, then work through short lessons from your first greeting to telling a story. Every word is spoken aloud.
69 lessons, 1,052 words and phrases. The first three lessons are free, no account needed.
Hallo!
Say it: HAH-loh
Hi! / Hello!
Every word and phrase has a recorded clip, at full speed and slowed right down. Your ear learns the music before your eye learns the spelling.
Each entry comes with a plain-English respelling, the stressed syllable in capitals, so you know where the weight falls before you say a word.
Flashcards, a quiz at the end of every lesson, and spaced review that brings back the words you are about to forget.
A self-paced online German course, built on the CEFR scale used by language schools and exams across Europe. Each level has its own can-do checklist, so you always know what your German is good for so far. B1 is also the level Germany asks for when you naturalize: how much German you need for citizenship.
The foundations: greetings, numbers, der/die/das, the present tense, and the phrases you need for a first trip.
Explore A1Everyday life in full: routines, work, health, the dative case, adjective endings, and talking about the past.
Explore A2Real conversations: opinions, complex sentences, the subjunctive, the passive, and telling a full story.
Explore B1The charts and tables learners look up again and again, open to everyone, no account needed.
The language course
69 short lessons for everyday German — greetings, numbers, food, directions — with audio and a written pronunciation for every word.
Beyond the grammar
German is spoken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and not quite the same way in each. Every lesson ends with notes on culture, history and everyday life — and on the words that change at the border.