Deutsch30YOUR GERMAN. YOUR PACE.
A0 → A2 · 60 days · €14 once

Stop being a guest in the city you live in.

From zero to everyday German in 60 days of structured, Goethe-anchored lessons.

Order your own coffee in Vienna. Handle the Munich landlord yourself. Meet your partner's parents without a translator. Sixty days of structured lessons take you from absolute beginner to confident everyday German — CEFR A2, the level daily life actually runs on. €14 once, no subscription, no streaks. Foundation 30 is free — no card needed.

Built in Vienna by a founder who moved here and learned German the hard way. 30-day money-back guarantee, and no card stored on the free tier — there's nothing to cancel.

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Foundation · Week 2 · Tag 11

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

The five most common time words — gestern, heute, morgen, vorgestern, übermorgen — plus the verb-second rule that holds every German sentence together.

~28 min10 blocks3 speak prompts
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Goethe-anchored · Built in Vienna · No subscription, ever · 30-day money-back
The half you can't do in English

Living here without German closes off half of daily life.

The menus you can't fully read. The neighbour you nod at instead of talk to. The letter from the Amt that turns your stomach. The doctor you under-explain your symptoms to. Your partner's family you've never actually met. English gets you through work — it doesn't get you through the rest. Deutsch30 is built for the half of life that opens up at A2: small talk that flows, paperwork that stops scaring you, an appointment you can actually run.

After 60 days

In 60 days, here's the half of life that opens back up.

Order food and drink

Walk into a Vienna café, order a Melange and a Topfenstrudel, ask what's vegetarian, settle the bill in German.

Rent an apartment

Introduce yourself to a Munich landlord, ask the basics — Quadratmeter, Nebenkosten, Kaution — answer their standard tenant screening questions.

Talk to a doctor

Tell a Berlin GP what hurts, since when, and how badly. Understand their follow-up questions and dosing instructions.

Follow Tatort with subtitles

Read German subtitles in real time. Pick out who-did-what-to-whom without pausing. Real native-speed German, not classroom German.

Meet the parents

Hold a 5-minute introduction with your partner's parents. Family, job, how you met, why you moved. No phrasebook, no panic.

Call a service line

Phone your Internet provider, the Hausverwaltung, a doctor's office. Navigate the menus, ask for an appointment, leave a coherent voicemail.

Read every sign

Train platforms, supermarket aisles, hospital corridors, ZIP-code paperwork. Stop translating signs in your head — just read them.

Small talk with neighbors

Hold a friendly two-minute chat about the weather, the kids, the garden, the rubbish-collection schedule. The glue of actually living somewhere.

Buy a ticket, pass the check

Work out the zones at the Ticketautomat, buy the right ticket, and show it to the Kontrolleur without that jolt of panic. Trams, the U-Bahn, the night bus home.

Meet your kid's teacher

Get through the Elternabend, talk to the Kita or Grundschule teacher about how your child's doing, and read the notes that come home in the Schultasche.

Pick up a parcel

Collect a Paket from the Paketshop or the neighbour who signed for it, sort out a failed delivery, and read the yellow Benachrichtigung card without translating it.

Sit your A2 exam

Reach the level named in many residency and family-reunion processes. Recognised by the Goethe-Institut and ÖSD — check the official rules for your specific case.

Backed by research

Built on what actually works for adults.

We didn't reinvent language pedagogy. We just refused the parts that make adults quit.

Production from day one

You learn a language by producing it, not just recognising it. From day one Deutsch30 puts a real speaking prompt in front of you and grades it — every day, not someday.

Swain (1985), comprehensible-output hypothesis

Retrieval, not flashcards

You bring back yesterday's words inside today's grammar. That act of recall lifts what sticks by about 50% over passive review — so progress compounds instead of evaporating.

Karpicke & Roediger (2008), Science

No streaks. No guilt. No owl.

You're an adult with a job and a life. Miss a day and nothing breaks — no lost streak, no red badge, no cartoon nagging you. We cut the gamification on purpose; chasing streaks actually erodes the motivation to learn.

Deci & Ryan, Self-Determination Theory

A real CEFR target

A2 isn't a number we made up. It's the everyday-life level recognised by the Goethe-Institut, ÖSD and German, Austrian and Swiss authorities — and 60 days × ~90 minutes lands square in the middle of the Goethe estimate for A1 → A2.

Goethe-Institut, 80–160 hours A1 → A2
Your AI German partner

Meet Leo.

Stuck mid-sentence? Don't know if it's der or die? Leo answers in plain English, then practices with you in German. No more waiting for a tutor session — your reps are unlimited.

The course is always a one-time €14 — never a subscription. Leo gives you 10 free messages a day. Want unlimited conversation practice? Leo Premium is an optional €5/month you can turn on or off anytime — and nothing is stored if you skip it.

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Inside the course

Foundation 30 and Sprint 30.

Foundation

A0 → A1Free

Survival German. Greetings, present-tense verbs, modal verbs, food, directions, the whole arc to A1.

WK 1WK 2WK 3WK 4

Sprint

A1 → A2€14 once

Past tenses, adjective endings, subordinate clauses, cases. The A2 push. Yours forever, one payment.

WK 1WK 2WK 3WK 4

A year of the big subscription apps costs €80–€120 — every year. Sprint 30 is €14. Once. Then it's yours, on every device.

Your full path

Foundation to B2 — own each level forever.

One payment per level, no subscription. Start free and climb as far as you want — or grab a bundle and save.

Foundation

Free
A0 → A1

Survival German. Start free, no card.

Sprint

€14
A1 → A2

Everyday-life German — order, rent, chat.

Climb

€24
A2 → B1

The B1 milestone — residency, work, the exams.

Beyond

€39
B1 → B2

Fluent-track. Talk like you mean it.

Mastery

€59
B2 → C1

University & business fluency.

Exam prep · A1 → B2 · C1 soon

Sit the real exam — at every level.

Format-faithful mock exams from A1 to B2, built to match the real tests — the same sections, the same number of questions, the same timing as the DTZ, ÖIF B1 and Goethe/telc exams. With AI-scored writing and speaking and a study plan built backward from your exam date.

A1 & A2 sample tests — free.
A1 · FreeA2 · FreeB1 · €19B2 · €29C1 · Soon

B1 and B2 are a one-time payment per level — €19 for a B1 pack, €29 for B2. Yours forever, no subscription.

Independent prep. Deutsch30 is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Goethe-Institut, telc, ÖSD, ÖIF or BAMF. AI scores are practice feedback, not certified results.

Common questions

Before you sign up.

What if I miss a day?
Nothing breaks. Every lesson is self-contained — pick up the next one whenever. No streak debt, no guilt screen, no owl in your notifications.
Do I need to know any German?
No. Foundation 30 starts at A0 — survival German for absolute beginners. If you've already studied, the placement quiz routes you to the right starting day.
How is this different from Duolingo or Babbel?
Three ways. It's built for adults — no streaks, no XP, no owl. You produce German from day one (a real speaking prompt, graded) instead of tapping multiple-choice. And it's €14 once, forever — not a subscription that renews until you remember to cancel.
What does the €14 cover, exactly?
Sprint 30 — the A1 → A2 push. One payment, yours forever, on every device you sign in with. No monthly fee, no auto-renewal. Foundation 30 stays free whether you buy Sprint or not.
Will I really reach A2 in 60 days?
If you do the daily lessons (~90 minutes, three short sittings), you'll cover roughly 90 hours of focused practice — square in the middle of the Goethe-Institut's own 80–160-hour estimate for A1 → A2. Real outcomes depend on your starting point and effort, like any course. There's a placement quiz on day 0 and an A2 simulation on day 60 so you can see your progress in concrete terms, not vibes.
Is A2 enough for my residency or visa?
For many residency and family-reunion processes in Germany and Austria, A1 or A2 is the named level — but rules vary by country, visa and year, so always check the official source for your case. What's certain: A2 is the level where daily life starts working in German, and it's recognised by the Goethe-Institut and ÖSD.
Can I get a refund?
Yes — there is a 14-day EU withdrawal right and a 30-day money-back guarantee on the €14. Foundation 30 stays free either way, and no card is stored if you only use the free tier.
What devices does it work on?
Web, including mobile browsers — works on iPhone, Android, iPad, Mac, PC. Native iOS and macOS apps ship later this summer; your progress syncs across all of them.

Open Day 01 — it's free.

By Day 60 you're ordering your own coffee in Vienna. No card, no trial, no catch — just open the first day.