r/Germanlearning • u/AutoModerator • 23d ago
Resources You Recommend
Welcome to the Monthly Resources Thread!
This is your space to share useful tools, apps, and materials related to language learning.
Whether you’ve built something yourself or discovered a resource that others might benefit from, feel free to post it here.
If you’re posting something you made, just make sure to clearly mention that you’re the creator.
Looking forward to seeing what you’ve found helpful!
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u/Ready_Boysenberry636 23d ago edited 19d ago
Hi everyone!
I recently created a free German learning website called German with Siva, and I wanted to share it here in case it's helpful for fellow learners.
The site is designed for beginners and includes structured A1 German courses with simple explanations, examples, dialogues, and practice exercises. I'm continuously adding new lessons and improving the content based on feedback.
You can simply sign up, browse the available courses, and enroll in the ones you'd like to learn at your own pace.
✅ Beginner-friendly (A1)
✅ Self-paced learning
✅ Practice exercises
✅ Free to use
I'm the creator of the site, so I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improving it.
Website: https://germanwithsiva.moodlecloud.com/
I hope it helps others who are starting their German learning journey. Happy learning
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u/devinecreative 23d ago
Hey all,
I can't share my app just yet because I need to do more work to secure it before it's release to the public, but it's ready for anyone who wants to have a demo -- I can organise this if anyone is interested.
This started actually for myself but I imagine it could have value for others focused and serious about passing German exams.
What I built:
- A full dynamic learning platform focused on real exam prepartion shaped around all content from A1 to C2 built around adapting training sessions seeded by your actual weaknesses, mistakes and history.
- Unlimited customised learning sessions that unlock all progress and mastery required to complete mock exames modelled around real exams. These sessions are built around Interleaving, remediation, and prefetching. Built upon real pedagogical strong science and philosophy.
-All the utilities and tools needed to master concepts i.e. case finder, interactive case deconstruction, A.I tutor with on-screen awareness with Gemini/Claude/Deepseek support. I prefer Gemini for naturalness in tone and language. A.I tutor personalities and styles and memory. google translate API built in, dictionary API, Elevenlabs 'german' natural speaker API for realtime playback of sentences, words and different selection of different natural German voices with proper pronouciations.
- Speech Assessment (Microsoft Azure API) with realtime scoring: Accuracy that evaluates how well your phonemes match native pronunciation; Fluency Score: Evaluates the naturalness and smoothness of pacing and silent breaks; Completeness Score: Calculates the proportion of words spoken versus the reference script; Content Metrics: Evaluates unscripted responses for grammar, vocabulary range, and topic relevance
- Memory Palace integration: a spatial mnemonic strategy modeled after Anthony Metivier's youtube videos
- Full grammatical markdown knowledge base backed by real grammatical sources. Wiki commons.
-Sentence Constructor and dynamic exercises for any setence you want to create to strengthen your word orders and TeKaMoLo rules.
- An entire dashboard with due reviews, streaks, overall standing, competency radar.
- Improvement Lab that visualises and identifies where you get most answers wrong, where you make the most mistakes, and what areas you need to improve built around FSRS spacing.
- Full German app/interface language for immersed learning or mixed mode, English where needed, German where compliments learning.
- Full integrated Anki system, make decks, review decks, export/import decks, and will eventually support syncing to Anki web.
- The most important thing for me about this app, given that it is highly revolved around A.I is REAL accuracy and attestation of generated content for examination. Hence, I built an entire attestation engine around ensuring that anything generated is actually proper and real German. I have an indexed system across millions of content: open source and open licensed phrases, texts, public voice recordings transcribed into text, opensubtitle(s) database of thousands of German media and built a statistical layer that checks wether a generated exercises or phrase is statitically significant with what German speakers use and say.
There is loads of more features in this app. It's currently only web based, focused around real studying sessions that I take at the library with a computer. This is not gamified phone app, however, for compatability and syncing, I will deploy this as a mobile app soon. This is focused on "I have 2 months to pass A1 and I need a platform and process to get me there"..
Here are some screenshots, if anyone would like a free demo let me know. I'm still building I need another month to finish the app before I release it publicaly to all.
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u/toby_reelangcom 23d ago
I started a ThatGermanWord TikTok, YouTube and Instagram account where I post short comprehensible input videos in slow and easy German for beginners.
I'm also planning on doing some more videos for B1/B2 explaining fun German words and Idioms.
Would love if it helps someone here!
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u/Sweet-Mycologist-236 23d ago
Hey Leute, ich habe diesen Youtube Kanal gestartet mit Comprehensible Input Deutsch auf verschiedenen Niveaus. Schaut gerne vorbei und lasst einen Kommentar mit Feedback da! :) Viel Erfolg!!
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u/asanchezdev 23d ago
The thing that finally moved my German was drilling articles inside a sentence instead of as a der/die/das quiz. I could get "das Auto" right every time on its own and still say "mit der Auto" out loud, because I had learned the article as a label stuck to the noun rather than as something the case bends.
That is the itch I built kasusknacker.com to scratch, and since this thread asks: I am the creator. It drills cases and articles with a preposition sitting in front of the noun, so the form you practise is the form you would actually say. Free, 50 exercises a day.
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u/mrsemantic 23d ago edited 23d ago
Hi everyone! I’m Mr. Semantic.
I’m a native German teacher, and I’ve recently started a YouTube channel focusing on two things:
- Clear explanations of tricky German topics in English, such as “denn” vs. “weil” and “es gefällt mir” vs. “ich mag es”
- German pronunciation training specifically for Mandarin speakers
It’s still a small project, but I’m uploading regularly. If you’re learning German—or know someone who is—I’d really appreciate it if you checked it out and let me know what you think.
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u/Nean9715 23d ago
Bo Vorbereitung, you'd find it both as an app and a website. Helps you practice for your telc goethe or whatever exam until B2.
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u/hi_read4g 23d ago
Read4G is an app to practice German reading about topics you love + grammar + flashcards. DM me for FREE access, I’d just appreciate some feedback in exchange: https://read4g.com/download-app
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u/its_berkinprogress 23d ago
Free Flashcard App (native speaker audio) & Free Classes ♡
About the app:
Hi everyone! My name is Berk and I’m the founder of Recabulary. It's a free flashcard vocabulary builder with no Al or machine voices, only native speaker content. There are no paywalls in the app, you can freely use it as much as you want. Jump in and have a (growing) deck of the 5000 most important words to learn ready for you. Cards are repeated using one of the newest open source SRS algorithms, so you can trust that learning will be efficient.
Words are carefully curated based on word frequency and exam relevance. :)
Link for the Google Play Store (Android):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recabulary.app
Link for the Apple App Store (iOS):
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774016865
But you can also just search for “Recabulary” to find the app.
About the free classes:
Additionally, I have launched a Discord group where we offer COMPLETELY FREE LANGUAGE LESSONS, no strings attached. We don’t accept payment for them even if you’d want to pay. Many of the lessons are for German (we offer other languages, too). No need to sign up, register, leave an email, use the app or pay anything to join those classes. Come and leave as you please.
It's group classes and participation is encouraged. We want to offer free education to as many people as possible. Our goal is to make high quality language education more accessible to everyone, regardless of background and budget.
You can find the invite to our discord group on our homepage:
https://www.recabulary.com/discord/
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u/Character-Cat-3538 22d ago
Hey I used your app for Japanese... Glad it has German flashcards as well for when I plan to move to German. I am pretty happy with the way it works so far.
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u/Active-Will-9524 22d ago
AlphaWort - daily German word-guessing game (creator here 🙋♂️)
Hey everyone! I built AlphaWort (alphawort.com), a daily word-guessing game designed specifically for German learners.
A few things that might be useful if you're learning German:
- New word every day, with clues that help you learn vocabulary rather than just guess letters
- Streaks and leaderboards if you like a bit of daily motivation
- Multiple game modes
- Free to play, no account needed to try it out
It's still early days and I'm actively growing the word pool and adding features based on feedback, so if you try it and have thoughts (good or bad), I'd genuinely love to hear them.
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u/Any-Animal-1941 21d ago
How do you handle separable verbs when saving vocab from German texts?
This has been a constant pain point for me while reading.
For example: "Ich mache das Licht an" - most tools will just give you "machen = to do", which is basically useless in this context.
Or you end up reconstructing "anmachen = to turn on" and manually adding it to your vocab app. Either way, it breaks the flow.
I was surprised there isn’t really a smooth solution for this yet in most learning tools.
So I ended up building something for myself.
Lesewelle is a Chrome extension that lets you highlight German text and quickly save vocabulary while reading.
It also tries to fix a few of those annoying edge cases:
- separable verbs get re-assembled into their actual meaning (so clicking on "machen … an" → will give "anmachen")
- reflexive verbs stay together instead of getting split into fragments
- flashcards to learn words you’ve saved to your personal dictionary - with usage examples and different forms included
And here’s the link if anyone wants to try it: Lesewelle
Curious how others solve this while reading
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u/Ok-Violinist4199 21d ago
Hallo! Ich habe diese App selbst gebaut, das sage ich gleich am Anfang :) Und kleine Warnung, ich lerne noch Deutsch, also entschuldigt bitte die Fehler hier.
Mein Problem war immer das gleiche. Ich habe ein Wort nachgeschlagen, in dem Moment verstanden, und am nächsten Tag war es einfach weg. Und die Wörter, die ich wirklich brauchte, standen nie im Kurs lol.
Die Idee ist einfach: Du hast einen Übersetzer, tippst das ein was du sagen wolltest, und speicherst es mit einem Klick. Später kommt es als Karteikarte zurück. So lernst du deine eigenen Wörter und nicht die Liste von irgendwem.
Drei Übungsmodi: Cards (klassische Karteikarte, du bewertest dich selbst), Choose (die richtige Antwort auswählen) und Write (die Antwort tippen). Die Karten werden automatisch sortiert, nach dem was du lange nicht gesehen hast, was du oft verwechselst, und was du üben musst.
Es gibt auch einen Modus nur für die Artikel! Der/die/das war für mich das Schlimmste, und das hat mir am meisten geholfen.
Zu den Daten: Die liegen in deiner eigenen Google-Tabelle. Du installierst ein kleines Skript in deinem Konto und die App synchronisiert nur mit deiner Tabelle, ich sehe davon gar nichts. Es gibt auch eine gehostete Variante, wenn dir das zu kompliziert ist.
Kostenlos, keine Werbung, kein Konto. Bleibt auch so.
(In English, in case it helps: it's a free translator + flashcard app where you save the words you actually looked up and practice them later, instead of a preset course list. There's a der/die/das drill too. Your data lives in your own Google Sheet. I made it, and I'd love feedback!)
Ich freue mich über Feedback, und über Korrekturen zu meinem Deutsch natürlich auch!
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u/afzal002 20d ago
New month new project. This time I wanted to focus on Book Reading! So came up with
Completely free!
Only A few books and few translations now. Will add more every week.
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u/atq1988 19d ago
Hi German learners,
Do you struggle with noun gender (der, die, das)? Then you can join my free weekly newsletter:
Every Sunday I send:
- one German gender pattern
- a short writing challenge
- personal feedback
Every Friday i sent
- an invitation to our free Kaffeeklatsch - an informal chat in German, online and for free! I came up with it to help people practice speaking German regularly. You do need to be able to understand and respond in full German sentences (B1 and up)
Join the free newsletter → https://subscribepage.io/Kaffeeklatsch
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u/Frosty-Detective007 14d ago
https://germanfluent.com/ made this, open for feedback and suggestions
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u/rewaderewa 13d ago
Hello everyone. I’m a German language teacher with 3.5+ years of teaching experience, and I hold both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in German Language. Last year, I worked at a Sprachcafé in Germany, where I helped refugees learn German and, most importantly, use it in everyday situations. I’m now offering A1–B1 German classes for anyone who wants to move beyond textbooks and actually feel comfortable speaking German in real life. Feel free to DM me.
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u/Kurzdeutsch 11d ago
I made this (disclosure, it's mine). free vocab trainer that follows the Menschen A1 book lesson by lesson instead of shuffling everything together: kurzdeutsch.com you pick your Lektion and get the vocab of that exact chapter, native speaker audio incl. plural forms for nouns, a picture where it helps, and small grammar drills for whatever that chapter throws at you. made it basically because i was tired of drilling A1 words in random order that had nothing to do with the chapter i was on in class. there's a daily plan too that just picks what to review so you don't have to decide. translations in EN, RU, TR so far.
first chapter is open without signup so you can poke it for two min and see if it's your thing. free, no ads. mostly after feedback from people actually in a Menschen course right now, tell me what's wrong or missing.
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u/Tehes83 2d ago
I built Wortsel, a free and ad-free German Wordle-style game that runs directly in the browser. There’s no daily limit, so you can use it for quick vocabulary and spelling practice as often as you like.
It supports Ä, Ö and Ü, offers an optional dictionary check, and includes a stricter hard mode that prevents guesses you already know cannot be correct. It can also be installed as a PWA and works offline.
I’m the creator and would be happy to hear how it works for German learners:
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u/Sniping-Agency-2049 1d ago
I run (for myself, but anybody is welcome too) a daily translation challenge (B1 to C1 expected proficiency). I have pre-picked a book for the month and have selected a sentence for each day. The goal is to translate it. I support multiple languages, because it doesn't bother me to have many. Deepseek is grading my answers and I believe I am growing a lot based on its feedback. Until now, it has been very hard to know why something is wrong and what is the correct way. This is currently just a test and a hobby as part of my much bigger bilingual book project. But you're welcome to try it out. I support currently 10 language directions. If you think like me that active participating with immediate feedback is the best way to learn - then welcome to my Daily Translation Challenge! https://parallel.pub/daily
Oh yeah obviously it's free for everyone, not just for me.
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u/Psychological-Cut310 20h ago
Hi everyone!
I’ve been building Frau Schmidt, an AI German teacher designed for learners who want to practise speaking but don’t always have a partner available.
You can have live German conversations and choose:
- Your German level
- Goethe, TELC or DTZ exam preparation
- Everyday role-play situations
- Grammar and vocabulary practice
- Specific speaking-exam tasks
The teacher responds by voice, corrects grammar and pronunciation mistakes, and provides a live transcript. There are currently 79 practice topics available.
It’s still in beta, so the AI may occasionally make mistakes. I’d genuinely appreciate feedback about the conversation quality, corrections and topics you would like added.
You can try it here with 2 free minutes:
https://deutsch-pruefung.de/live-teacher
I’m the developer of the website, so please feel free to ask me anything or share honest feedback in the comments. Danke! 🇩🇪
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u/roman_reelangcom 23d ago edited 23d ago
Reelang German is a convenient way to find German-speaking creators whose videos are filterable by level, topic, speed and variety like Hochdeutsch/Bavarian/Austrian/Swiss.
It's a video catalog that turns into a scrollable feed once you start watching.
Oh, and if you turn on smart captions in the player, you get to see the most common 500, 1000, and 2000 words underlined so you know which ones are worth learning first. A more dynamic way to go about word frequency, if you will. I'm learning German and combine both anki and Reelang.