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German for travel — speak before you land
Berlin, Vienna, an Alpine pass — and a conductor who doesn’t speak English. This course drills ready-made German sentences for travel situations into you before you board the train.
Try it freeIn Germany and Austria, English is a lottery: it works at the hotel, but the conductor, the bakery and the countryside — not necessarily. And travel does not wait: the connection leaves in five minutes, there is a Stau on the Autobahn, the pharmacy closes at six.
Instead of “doing a level” before the trip, you drill exactly the sentences you will use: tickets, directions, ordering, emergencies. Short, concrete, on reflex — even when stress eats the rest.
How it works
Create with AI
Going on a specific trip? Add your own situations — the vignette, the ski rental, a table for tonight. AI builds the German sentences, context and audio.
Spaced repetition
Reviews return right before you would forget — travel sentences become reflex before departure. Repetition is sparring.
Language Radio
German sentences play in the background — in the car on the Autobahn. You soak in the questions you will hear on arrival.
Who is it for
- You are travelling to Germany or Austria — for holidays, skiing or work.
- You go regularly (work, family, cross-border shopping) and the same language wall annoys you every time.
- You want to get by outside the big cities, where English does not always work.
- You know German “from school”, but under stress it all evaporates.
Method & curriculum
The course is built on the Core collections and travel topic collections — designed the way you naturally acquire a language: understand first, speak sooner.
The rhythm is word → phrase → sentence: a new sentence from the station or hotel returns in variants — statement, question, negation — until it sticks. Every lesson builds on the last, in a seamless spiral.
And the situations from your specific trip go in via the Creator — drilled before you leave.
What users say
Over 24,000 people forge a language with Taalhammer.
As a polyglot I tested all the other tools like Anki, Quizlet, and Memrise. But Taalhammer is in a league of its own. — Martin
Frequently asked questions
I leave in a month — is that enough?
Yes. Ten to fifteen minutes a day for a month with reviews means hundreds of travel sentences on reflex — exactly the ones you will use.
Won’t I get by in English?
At the hotel, probably. With the conductor, at the bakery and in the countryside — a lottery. A few hundred German sentences on reflex remove that stress for good.
I am starting from zero. Can I do this?
Yes. Travel sentences are short and concrete — the best possible start, and the path keeps growing from A1 upward.
Is the course free?
You start free and test the method risk-free. Full access is paid — see the pricing page.