Say them the German way
Hand looks like hand and means hand, but the vowel is different and the final consonant is crisp. The recordings are there so the spelling does not tempt you into English sounds.
Free practice · Cognates
English and German are cousins, and hundreds of everyday words are the same or nearly so. Here they are from the course, with their articles and recordings. Guess a few first.
240 words from the first 30 levels, 93 of them spelled the same. No account needed.
Guess the meaning
haben
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The list
In the order the course teaches them. Nouns carry their article, because that part is new even when the word is not.
Two cautions
Hand looks like hand and means hand, but the vowel is different and the final consonant is crisp. The recordings are there so the spelling does not tempt you into English sounds.
das Hotel, der Computer, die Musik: the word is free, the gender is not. Learn the article with the word from the start and it never has to be fixed later.
This list only holds words whose meaning matches. Gift means poison, bekommen means to get, and also means so. None of them is here, and each is worth a wary look when you meet it.
The same material, inside the course
These words are the easy part. The course marks them known for you as you meet them, so your lessons spend their time on the words that are new.
Each word gets its own spaced-repetition timing, so the ones you miss return sooner and the ones you know stay out of the way.
Meet a few words at a time with article, plural, and meaning, then type them German to English and English to German.
Gender, verb forms, prepositions, and sentence gaps open as your vocabulary grows, across a course of more than 17,000 entries.
The words come from the Wortplay course, chosen because their English meaning resembles them. Vocabulary draws on the Ding dictionary and on frequency data from wordfreq; audio is generated German speech. About the sources.