Questions and answers

Anonymous visitors can use the German course, read public content, review prepared B1 flashcards and access the guides and learning resources.

An account is required to create personal lessons, save words to a personal dictionary, use Practice with those words and track individual progress.

Start with the structured German course. It introduces essential grammar and beginner vocabulary before you begin working with longer authentic texts.

See the course guide for a recommended way to work through each lesson.

Course lessons form a structured beginner course with prepared text, explanations, audio and review activities.

Public lessons are prepared by the site and can be read by all visitors. Their content cannot be edited by users.

Personal lessons are private lessons created from your own text. You can edit them and use them to add vocabulary to your personal dictionary.

Personal lessons are private and cannot be published through the site, but you are still responsible for following the copyright laws that apply to you and the source material.

Prefer material you are permitted to use, short excerpts where legally appropriate, public-domain texts or content provided specifically for language learning.

Text-to-speech for lesson text depends on the browser's Web Speech API and on the voices installed or provided by your device. Support and voice quality vary between browsers, operating systems and devices.

Try the following:

• confirm that the browser tab and device are not muted
• use an up-to-date browser
• install the German language or speech pack on your device
• try another browser on the same device
• close and reopen the page after installing a new voice

Some browser and device combinations may not provide a suitable German voice.

Course recordings are regular audio files and do not depend on text-to-speech voices. First click the audio control directly, because browsers may block playback that has not been initiated by the user.

Also check the device volume, browser tab volume, headphones or Bluetooth output, content-blocking extensions and whether the browser is up to date. If other websites can play audio but a particular course recording cannot, report the affected lesson.

No. Course lessons use prepared recordings. Other lesson text may use speech synthesis supplied by your browser or device, so the available voice, pronunciation and playback behavior can differ.

You must be signed in to maintain a personal dictionary. A translation is required before an entry can be saved; lemma, comment and phrase are optional.

If you are signed in and have entered a translation, reload the page and try again. If the problem continues, report the lesson, selected word and error message.

A word is the form that appears in a text. A lemma is its base dictionary form. For example, gehe, gehst, ging and gegangen belong to the lemma gehen.

The word count shows how many forms you have collected. The lemma count is often a better approximation of the size of your core vocabulary.

No. Suggestions are intended to reduce typing and may be based on information entered by other users. Always verify the translation, lemma and other data against your sentence and a reliable dictionary before saving them.

Check the following:

• the word is saved in your personal dictionary
• the word is not already marked as known
• the selected Practice time filter includes the word
• the word was not removed from the active learning queue

Choose All words to determine whether a time filter is excluding it.

No. Flashcards are intended for flexible self-review. They do not change the learning counter or automatically mark dictionary words as known. Use Practice when you want answers to affect the word's progress.

Check your spam or junk folder and confirm that you entered the correct email address. Delivery can sometimes take several minutes.

If the message still does not arrive, use the resend verification email page. Repeated requests may be temporarily rate-limited.

Open the forgotten password page and enter the email address associated with your account. If password recovery is available, you will receive a time-limited recovery link.

For security, the page shows the same confirmation whether or not an account exists for the submitted email address.

Accounts using Google authentication do not have a local password managed by this site. Sign-in credentials must be managed through the authentication provider.

Yes. Use Export on the My words page to download your vocabulary. Regular exports are recommended if your dictionary represents a significant amount of work.

Yes. The delete-account option is available from your user page. Deletion is permanent and removes the account together with its associated personal lessons, words and user data. Export anything you want to keep before confirming deletion.

The browser must process the text and compare its words with your personal dictionary. Very long texts therefore require more work than short lessons, especially on older devices.

Consider dividing a very long text into several smaller lessons. Also try an up-to-date browser and check whether the same problem occurs with a short lesson.

Please include:

• the page or feature where the problem occurred
• the steps that caused the problem
• the exact error message, if one was displayed
• your browser, operating system and device type
• whether the problem can be reproduced consistently

Do not send your password, authentication tokens or other sensitive credentials.