DW Learn German
June 09, 2024
More About DW Learn German
- Programs for beginners and advanced learners (from the alphabet to business German)
- Diverse interactive exercises
- Vocabulary training and glossary
- Grammar and geography
You decide what’s the best way to learn German with DW. Take your pick – maybe a video series or interactive exercises? Get started now and learn German – even if you never have before. With DW, you can go online or use your mobile to improve your German. It’s easy to get started – we have something for everyone. And if you aren’t sure where to start, just take our quick and easy Placement Test to find out which course is right for you. We cover all the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference – from beginners to experts.
We also have other courses to help you learn the alphabet, or to get ready for business situations.
DW also courses and materials for German teachers – like worksheets, articles, audio and video content. It’s all free and ready to download. You can find everything we have to offer at dw.com/learngerman.
Latest Version
1.0.3
June 09, 2024
Deutsche Welle
Education
Android
2,159,900
Free
com.dw.learngerman
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User Reviews
A Google user
5 years ago
The b1-section is broken again... please fix, thanks! Update: 04/09The App is broken again... could you please fix? thanks! Update: Problem solved within 2 hours, great! Original: The app is crashing today. In the end, it shows a backend failure message. I refreshed and refreshed, and now I can see the course list. However, I can't start courses. Could you please help to fix this issue please so that I can start learning again? Thank you!
A Google user
6 years ago
This is a really really good app which has helped me learn a great deal of German. It's heartbreaking that the video play function stopped working and, no matter how many times I log in/out or re-install the app it still does not work. In response to a previous review, DW said it is working again, but definitely not for me. Please help DW, as this app is so helpful and well designed.
Daniel Aarno
5 years ago
The content is quite good, but technical issue makes use of the app a frustrating experience (not ideal state of mind for learning retention). For example, a 2 min video takes about 30 min to get through as it plays 5 seconds, then hangs for a minute or so before playing the next 5 seconds. The scoring is also quite silly, as for example, not getting the expected string 100% correct (including punctuation) counts as an error.
Cristina Moraru
3 years ago
Great content and after an update a few weeks ago the videos and chapters started loading much faster. However many other things got broken. I can't see my progress unless I tilt my phone in landscape mode. The Einschoch6 course doesn't load at all. Subtitles don't load at all. Audio streams overlap, e.g. after I complete an exercise the text gets read out loud, I frequently skip this to go to the next exercise. Before the update I could stop it by starting another audio, now they just overlap.
A Google user
5 years ago
The app and the contents are great. I removed a star for these reasons: 1. The app is slow, I am not an expert but maybe the videos should be converted to a smaller size version. Also creating a cached local database for the user will increase the speed. 2. The navigation is not practical. I can not go back to a previous sub-lesson without going to the home screen then course selection then the main lesson. I suggest add the path in the title bar for a faster and practical navigation.
Vitaliy K
2 years ago
The app has excellent content and is free. But navigation is terrible. I found it difficult to find lessons every time. And the menu is so big I could not figure out what is important in it and what is not. Hamburger menu is a terrible way to organise navigation. Tabs will be better. Alternatively at least make it available in the hamburger menu multilevel menu A1 ...-> 1. Greetings 2. Where do you live... A2. ...
A Google user
6 years ago
It's a great app for learning, the stories presented in every chapter keep me interested. However I am not so happy with the developer part of it - it's not very stable - I had problems with registration for several weeks and then very often issues with logging in. The Play button on videos currently doesn't work, so I cannot continue learning:( I hope you'll manage to make it more stable, cause it would be a pity, if I cannot use it anymore. Thanks!
A Google user
6 years ago
The content is great I really like it. But the interface is horrible. Firstly, opening of folders with lessons is super slow which is annoying. Secondly, several days ago accidentally all video has broken down - I can not run it. It is loading, I can move the start moment of video but it does not respond to running clicks. So now, I can not use the app at all.
Elisabetta Messina
4 years ago
Wonderful course! You can choose your level (A1, A2, etc.) and make quick progress in grammar, reading, listening, writing, vocabulary and (partially) speaking (great for learning the pronounciation if you train repeating the sentences out loud). And all for free and without ads!?! The best substitute or complement to German in-person lessons.
Peace A.
2 years ago
A good learning app. I thank the those who made this available. The update that occurred made the app almost unusable. The interface doesn't fit into the screen of a regular smartphone when in portrait mode. I put my phone in landscape and still couldn't read the text to the right of the screen. I can't even zoom in/out to make the text smaller so I could see everything. It's just frustrating to say the least. PLEASE fix it.
Mar Ta
2 years ago
Great app to learn German, thought really well in any aspect, helps learning the language and getting to know the country. Don't know whether it's my cellphone, lately in the exercises of the type "Ordne den ersten Teil des Dialogs" The sections cannot be viewed completely, even if I rotate the phone there are sentences which are partly or completely hidden, as if the page width hasn't been set by percentage but by a fixed pixel number. Hope it could be adjusted soon. Thanks
A Google user
6 years ago
I really like this app as it is easy to understand. But there's a problem, at first the videos work just fine, i like the videos as they are explaining so well, but after i close the app and open it again, the "play button" on the video can't even be pressed, i can't watch the videos anymore! If i can't watch the videos, how can i understand the lesson?
A Google user
6 years ago
It's better the website than this app. I use Chrome in my smartphone to follow the lessons and everything goes well. The app doesn't introduce anything new, it's just exactly a web version copy but even with a limitation: you can't watch videos in full screen mode. It's better to use a browser like Chrome in your phone and just simply add a shortcut to the course in your home screen
Ozohu Ovurevu
1 year ago
The app is great and well detailed to help anyone who wants to learn and speak German. Be it beginners or Professionally.
Yaser Hasan
1 year ago
The lessons videos can not run on my oppo android 7.2 phone I receive an error message " The media playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the media used features your browser did not support" Can you help fixing this issue please?
rolo roam
3 years ago
The content is well done, good they took they music group so the lectures are realistic, fun and there is a great variety of topics. The lessons are not necessary in the correct order by difficulty, some lessons are not much happening and some like the bayerish have more new worlds and pronunciations. I wish they could have made list of words somewhere in the lesson so people don't need to write them down. Navigation could be better, but hey it's free language app with free good quality content
A Google user
6 years ago
excelent app with only one draw back. videos stop working after a while. this can be temporarily fixed by uninstaling and re-instaling the app. but this becomes tiresome after about the fifth time. otherwise, this is quite possibly the best free app for learning the german language. My only hope is that the creators will soon fix the video problem.
A Google user
6 years ago
The videos are no longer playing and the developers aren't listening. Get this, if I mute the video it'll play. If I unmute it, it stops. The lessons depend on the videos, so if they don't play, you can't use the app to progress through the lessons. The developers claim the problem was fixed - it is not fixed. The videos are kaput!!!!
Ryan Miller
4 years ago
A solid, challenging, and engaging app for learning German, but not nearly as good as using the website. The lessons, while all similar in structure, seem inconsistent in scoring and saving progress. On today's lesson, I firmly answered 70% of the questions correctly, but was somehow given a score of 25%. I attempted to go back and fix a few exercises to improve my score, but could not access anything before exercise 8/12. Great content, but the UX needs work.
A Google user
6 years ago
amazing resource. another trick that has worked for me to get the videos to play is to log into the website page on my phone (I am using chrome) and to go to the episode I want that way, then it automatically flips me into the app with working videos. but if I try to open the app directly, the videos don't work without downloading them from the other tools menu. hope that helps!
