The best way to learn German speaking

1. 1

   You say sentences out loud

   Speaking is a skill you only build by speaking. An app that only taps and swipes trains recognition.

2. 2

   It uses whole sentences

   Sentences teach word order, endings and rhythm that single words cannot.

3. 3

   You hear native-style audio

   Listening and speaking feed each other. You need to hear how it should sound.

4. 4

   Feedback is specific

   Knowing which word you missed is more useful than a red cross on the whole sentence.

5. 5

   It is short and daily

   A ten-minute habit you keep beats a long course you drop.

Every sentence goes through the same four steps, and the last one is the point.

• Order

  Rebuild the German sentence in English from a bank of words.

• Translate

  See the English and build the German sentence word by word.

• Listen

  Hear the sentence in German and type what you understood.

• Speak

  Say it out loud and see which words landed.

In German the verb sits in second place in a simple sentence and jumps to the end of many others. Building sentences from a word bank, then saying them aloud, makes that pattern automatic instead of something you work out each time.

• Hello

  Hallo

  Hello

• Thank you

  Danke

  Thank you

• A first sentence

  Wie spät ist es?

  What time is it?

Play buttons use your device’s own voice and appear only when it has one for German.

An app builds habit, vocabulary and the muscle memory of speaking. It does not replace talking with people. Once you can say a handful of sentences, find a conversation partner or tutor and use what you practised. See how long German takes to plan your time.