DW Learn German

Deutsche Welle

About this app

Learn German on the go with DW - for beginners, advanced learners and teachers

With exciting videos, informative news and music, we’ll make sure that you’ll find the perfect way to learn German. Start right away, even without any previous knowledge, and improve your German online and on the go, completely free of charge. We offer courses for all levels -and if you're not sure where you stand, our placement test will help you find the perfect course for you - quickly and easily!

Our offer includes:
• A placement test to help you find the right level
• Courses for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners (from literacy to exam training)
• A wide range of interactive exercises
• Vocabulary training and word explanations
• Grammar and regional studies
• Comprehensive materials for teachers

Our courses cover all levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. There are also offers for learning the alphabet and language preparation for various jobs.

As a teacher, you will also find what you are looking with materials that you can use for your lessons free of charge.

Simply download the app and learn German with DW! 😊

Ratings and reviews

It's a very educational app that's filled with helpful lessons, but I'm endlessly frustrated with the placement tests. I've had "fill in the blank" answers marked wrong despite putting the correct answer, or if autocorrect capitalized the right answer. Some sections have you answer multiple questions, but if you get 5/6 correct, the entire section is marked as incorrect and you lose points for that part. And you can't retake the tests. Ever.

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!!!!

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.

What’s new

* Bug fixes