Anki Deck · Instant Email Delivery · $9.99
Master 80% of German for $9.99
3,650 of the most-used German words. Native audio. Real example sentences. One Anki deck.
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The 80/20 rule of language learning
A small slice of words does almost all the work.
Vocabulary in every language follows the Pareto principle: a tiny fraction of words gets used over and over, while the rest barely appear at all. The same handful of verbs, nouns and connectors shows up in news articles, novels, conversations and films.
Learn the right 3,650 most-used words in German and you unlock 80%+ of written German and roughly 90%+ of spoken German — because spoken language reuses an even narrower core vocabulary.
Coverage estimates based on lemma frequencies in the DeReKo reference corpus (~7 billion tokens of contemporary written German). Spoken-language coverage is consistently higher because conversation reuses a smaller core vocabulary.
The fluency math
10 words a day × 365 days = 3,650 words.
One year. About fifteen minutes a day. And you'll understand the vast majority of everything you read and hear in German.
10 brand-new cards a day. Reviews handled by spaced repetition.
Of written and spoken German respectively. The Pareto effect in action.
A day. Less than half a TV episode. Easy to fit into a coffee break or commute.
What's inside
Everything you need on every card. Nothing you don't.
3,650 cards covering the most-used words in modern German
Pulled from the DeReKo reference corpus — 7 billion tokens of contemporary written German. No filler, no obscure vocabulary you'll never see.
Native-quality audio for every word AND every example sentence
7,300 audio files. Tap a card and you hear how it actually sounds — both the word in isolation and inside a real sentence.
Real example sentences, grammar-reviewed
Every sentence has been read and corrected for grammar. You learn words in the contexts you'll actually meet them — not stiff textbook examples.
Part-of-speech, gender on every noun, frequency rank
Each card tells you whether you're learning a noun, verb, adjective, etc. Nouns ship with their article (der/die/das). Cards are tagged by rank so you can study by frequency band.
Tags by part-of-speech and rank for custom study sessions
Want a week of just verbs? Or just the top 500? Anki's filtered decks make it trivial.
One-time purchase. Yours forever.
No subscription. The download link in your email works for 7 days. Need it again later? Just reply and I'll send you a fresh one.
A balanced curriculum, not a random list
The deck is automatically weighted to mirror real German. Roughly half nouns, a fifth verbs, a fifth adjectives — exactly the mix you'll meet on the street and on the page.
What a card looks like
Front. Back. Audio. Done.
Every card is built around the same simple pattern: the German word and a real sentence on the front, the English plus the grammar info on the back. Hit space to flip.
verstehen
Rank #214
Ich kann dich nicht verstehen, das Radio ist zu laut.
verstehen
to understand
also: to grasp, to comprehend
I can't understand you, the radio is too loud.
Cards include word audio, sentence audio, English translation, alternative translations, the example sentence translated, part of speech, and rank — all on one clean template.
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