ortPlayFree practice · Anki decks
German Anki decks, with audio.
The course’s word list and verb list as decks for Anki. Every word has a card from the German and a card from the English, each with a sentence, and all of it is recorded.
Free, with no account. A deck opens in Anki on a computer or a phone. Updated 2026-11-11.
The decks
Three decks.
1,000 common German words
The first 1,000 words of the course, in the order it teaches them, from the very first ones. The deck for a start from zero.
2,000 cards · 2,989 recordings · 36 MB
The same words, without the basics
The same deck from Level 1 on: 741 words. It leaves out the 259 of Level 0, which any first course covers: the pronouns, the numbers, the forms of sein and haben, and the first everyday words.
1,482 cards · 2,220 recordings · 28 MB
100 common German verbs
Every verb in the present, the Präteritum and the Perfekt, for all six persons, with a note where a verb does something of its own.
200 cards · 300 recordings · 3 MB
The cards
Two cards for every word.
One asks from the German and one from the English. Each has its own sentence, and a play button wherever there is German.
A verb’s card has the whole chart behind it.
The verb deck’s second card asks for the verb from the English, with its Präteritum and Perfekt.
| Present | Präteritum | Perfekt | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | komme | kam | bin gekommen |
| du | kommst | kamst | bist gekommen |
| er/sie/es | kommt | kam | ist gekommen |
| wir | kommen | kamen | sind gekommen |
| ihr | kommt | kamt | seid gekommen |
| sie/Sie | kommen | kamen | sind gekommen |
Choosing
Which deck to take.
- New to German
- The 1,000 words. They start with ich, du and the numbers. This deck holds every card of the next one, so take one of the two.
- Past a first course
- The deck without the basics. If you want them after all, open the full deck later: Anki adds only the words you do not have, in a deck of their own.
- For conjugation
- The verb deck, with either word deck. Its verbs are in the word decks too, as words; the verb deck is for their forms.
In Anki
Using a deck.
- Opening it
- Install Anki, then open the downloaded file. The deck appears in your list of decks.
- A day’s cards
- Anki shows 20 new cards a day unless you change that: ten words from the German, then the same ten from the English.
- The English side a day later
- Turn on “Bury new siblings” in the deck’s options.
- One direction only
- In Anki’s card browser, search for
"deck:Wortplay*" card:2, select the cards, and suspend them. - A newer deck
- Download it again and open it. Your cards are updated and your progress is kept. Text you changed on a card yourself is replaced.
Continue in the course
Add lessons and scheduled reviews.
A deck gives you the cards. The course teaches the words in lessons of a few at a time, checks what you type, and carries on for 200 levels.
Vocabulary, articles, plurals, and meanings come from the Ding German–English dictionary by Frank Richter at TU Chemnitz, under the GNU GPL 2.0 or later. The frequency order draws on wordfreq by Robyn Speer, whose data is CC BY-SA 4.0. Selection, level order, sentences, and corrections are Wortplay’s. Each deck carries the same notice. Audio is generated German speech. About the sources.