Reelang: Learn German

Reelang

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About this app

Learn German with 24,000+ real videos from native speakers, in the German you want. From beginner to advanced.

Reelang looks like a normal short video feed, except it adapts to your level of German. You watch real TikToks, YouTube Shorts and other clips from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and we add new ones all the time.

You scroll. Reelang keeps finding German you can understand.

Pick the German you are actually learning

Most apps teach one German. Reelang lets you choose.

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bavaria, Swabia. Every clip is labelled with where it comes from, so you always know which German you are hearing. Moving to Zurich? Set the feed to Swiss German and get used to grüezi before you land. Studying in Vienna? Austrian German. Sitting an exam? Standard German.

Swiss German and Austrian German are not an afterthought. Each is its own feed with over a thousand clips, and Bavarian and Swabian are there too.

Smart Subtitles show you what to learn first

Not every word is worth your time. Smart Subtitles tell you which ones are. You see whether a word is among the 500, 1,000 or 2,000 most common words in German, and anything rarer shows its exact rank.

A feed that grows with you

Native German is fun when you can follow it, and exhausting when every sentence gets away from you. Reelang picks videos at your level, so the speech stays real and you can still follow it.

The feed starts with the easiest German it has and speeds up as you do. When a clip runs away from you, Focus takes it sentence by sentence.

If you know the term comprehensible input, that is the idea. Real German you can almost always understand, with enough new in it to keep learning.

Use subtitles. Then hide them.

Start with Smart Subtitles when you need help. When a clip begins to feel easy, hide them and listen again.

Some videos have the subtitles burned into the image. A normal player cannot take those off the screen. Reelang can. Hide them and you are only listening, not reading.

Same clip, same voice, no text. Little by little you catch words, then whole sentences.

Learn vocabulary where people actually use it

A word sticks when you hear a real person use it in a real situation.

Instead of working through lists, you meet new words inside TikToks, Shorts and other native clips, slang included. Want longer on one video? Open Focus: no text first, then a check, then word by word. Tap a word to keep it for review.

This is not a course, and these are not audio lessons. It is everyday German, spoken at the speed people actually speak it.

The fun part is the part that teaches

Reelang is built on videos people would watch anyway: funny clips, stories, street interviews, everyday life. Not a lesson dressed up as entertainment, but real entertainment in German with the learning tools around it. That is why opening the app tomorrow does not take discipline.

Reelang+ is optional. It gives you unlimited Learner Insights explaining grammar, slang and why people say things the way they do (free accounts get a couple a day). It also brings your vocabulary back in new clips so the words stick, and unlocks your full Reelang Chart.

You can still watch and learn without Reelang+.

Getting ready for a listening exam?

Goethe-Zertifikat, telc, TestDaF, DSH and ÖSD all measure the same thing: understanding real German the first time you hear it, at natural speed. The Hörverstehen papers, telc Deutsch B2 hören among them, are audio at exam pace, which is what this feed already is. The same goes for the DTZ and the Integrationskurs.

Use Reelang for German listening practice, comprehensible input, vocabulary in context and German immersion. Swiss German, Austrian German, Bavarian, Swabian or standard German: the feed keeps the speech real, the accent honest and the difficulty manageable. Immersive, without moving country.

24,000+ videos. Real German from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, in one feed that meets you at your level.