How to learn German for Free
From Apps to Youtube Channels, everything we know about learning germanI will tell you everything I know that can help you to learn this beautiful language that is German.
How to Learn German for free on your phone
I’ll start the list with my favorites, the apps. I love how practical, easy and inexpensive learning a language can be nowadays. It does not matter if you have an Android or an iPhone, everybody can learn from apps.
Duolingo
All the content inside Duolingo comes from the wonderful world of the interwebz. And besides the cool factor, this keeps the content relevant. And by doing the exercises, students help the translation of other languages! And all those translations are then combined and sold as a way to keep the app free of ads and costs.
Duolingo works like a game between your friends, and you can beat everybody in the language you’re learning by accumulation XP points. Each course has its ranking, and each user has its friends on this ranking. One of our favorite ways to learn German.
Memrise
Learn German with DeutschAkademie
Busuu
FluentU
How to learn German with YouTubers
Since there are only a few things in life that consume my free time more than endlessly browsing YouTube to find the perfect video, let me help you. Do you want to learn German? From your laptop? Free of charge? Who’s with me? Why not turn Youtube’s idleness moments into something useful? I’ll give you 10 of my favorite YouTube Channels, and later, you can choose your favorites. I know how personal this can be.
Deutsch für Euch
Deutsch Für Euch (“German for you”) is aimed at people wishing for an alternative to school books and dictionaries to learn German. Its targeted audience are native English speakers, but of course anyone is free and encouraged to give it a go – if you speak English, you’re good to go 🙂 The project’s main focus is giving both extensive and accessible grammar explanations; a concept that’s pretty unique in this form on YouTube.
Learn German with GermanPod101.com
Learn German with GermanPod101.com – The Fastest, Easiest and Most Fun Way to Learn German. 🙂 Start speaking German in minutes with Audio and Video lessons. GermanPod101.com is an online German language learning website. You’ll learn to speak, read, write and hear German. You’ll have fun learning with listeners around the world.
Easy Online German
Learn German easily and for free. Repeat grammar, improve your pronunciation and test your listening comprehension. Watch videos in German with subtitles for a better understanding. Try the free website http://www.easy-online-german.com which is created for foreigners who want to start learning German or improve their German. One main emphasis is put on correct pronunciation.
DeutschMitJulia
Learn German with Julia. It’s German lessons for beginners and advanced learners! ‘Deutsch mit Julia’ began in 2009 during a period of unemployment in Ireland. Julia is posting ever since and has even published one of her courses with www.alison.com, an Irish online learning network.
Deutsch Happen
This is the YouTube Channel of Deutsch Happen. Here you can learn German online with videos that go a bit deeper into German grammar, vocabulary, idioms and other topics in addition to my exercises on www.deutschhappen.com.
girls4teaching
Free lessons with our beautiful teachers Welcome to the first video-based learning project totally for free! Our purpose is to share the knowledge of different languages among the students all over the world. We will start with the most spoken languages,gradually adding as many languages as possible because we are convinced that every single languages worth being learnt.
smarterGerman
Smart and crispy German teaching. Learn the German Grammar in little bits of 3-5 minutes and make use of it a lifetime. Experience the beauty and true simplicity of the German grammar and don’t hesitate to ask any question or make a request for another video if I haven’t covered something yet.
Get Germanized
Learn German, get to know Germany and German culture and have fun doing so! My videos are directed at English speakers that want to learn about my country, its language and culture online for free! Put your dictionary and grammar books away and start studying with me instead!
Easy Languages
Learn languages from the streets! – And find out more about foreign cultures and countries at the same time 😀 On our channel you find weekly new episodes in… … English (Tuesdays) … French (Saturdays) … German (Sundays) Apart from that you find many many more languages irregularly as well as episodes on with grammar explanations, vocabulary trainings and verb conjugations!
Learn German with Herr Antrim
Learn German grammar, German vocabulary, and tips on learning German from an actual German teacher. Mondays, I upload stories (Märchen), songs (Lieder), and resource reviews. Wednesdays, I upload German Learning Tips. Fridays, I upload 3 Minuten Deutsch (3 Minute German) videos, which are short grammar lessons.
How to learn German in a real class for free
If you live in Berlin, every single week you can have your German courses for free in a cool bar in Neukölln. The name of this cool project is Deutsch für Dich, and on their facebook page, you can see when you can go. Classes go from real beginners to advanced, passing through only conversation and more. And even tho I say it is for free, every class you can pay whatever you think it’s fair for the classes and keep this fantastic idea going.
How to learn German with real people
One of the best things to learn a language is to talk to a native speaker. The name for this exchange of knowledge is called TANDEM. On Facebook, there are endless groups dedicated to this kind of practice, but there are some apps and website where you can find a partner too!
Here are some ideas:
- Tandemapp.me
- Fluentfuture.com
- Ruhr Universität Bochum Tandem Service
- Livemocha
- My Language Exchange
- Lang 8
And beside those links, you can always try to meet people interested in learning the language you speak. I’m teaching Portuguese to my German friend, and he is teaching me German every week. How to learn German is not so much about grammatic as it is diving into the language. It is by far the best way to learn in my opinion.
How to learn German with games
And here is where the fun starts! One of the aspects that I like the most about Duolingo and Memrise is the gamification of this painful process that is to learn German. Here are some cool games you can play and learn
- Babadum.com– Play Babadum, get the right answer from the four options and see your afternoon goes away while you get lost in this super addictive game.
- Lyricstraining.com – Why not learn German with some cool music? Translate your favorite tunes and get knowledge in exchange!
- Quia.com – A bunch of cool games you can play
Other ways to learn German
Here is the final part of this post and where I’ll put some of the best tricks and links I know that couldn’t fit into one category.
- Slow news in German by DW
- Free German courses by DW
- Firelang, a Firefox add-on that can help you memorize the genders in German
- TV Now and the German TV in their original sound
- Preply a way to have a tutor and learn from the comfort of your home using skype
Learn German can be quite hard and sometimes expensive and we all know that. If you have any more useful links, apps, plugins or whatever, leave it here in the comments below. The more extensive this list gets, the better is for everyone!
And don’t forget that you can always contact our friends and us on our facebook group, so whatever question you may have, people are there to help! I also want to say that we have a fantastic newsletter that monthly will give you tons of useful information about travel and life in Germany, you may find this useful on your quest to find out how to learn German easy and free. And don’t worry, we hate spam more than you could ever hate.