Why Übungszeit exists

You can learn a lot of German from apps, courses and textbooks. What almost none of them give you is enough practice — the kind where you read, listen, write and speak, make mistakes, and have someone patient explain them until they click. That gap is the whole reason this school was built.

Übungszeit — “practice time” — is deliberately built like a school, not an app. Behind the entrance are five classroom doors, one for each level from A1 to C1. Inside every classroom are the same four stations — Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking — because real fluency only comes when all four grow together.

Every exercise here is original and written by hand for its level: stories, dialogues, letters, scenes from real life. Nothing is scraped or copied. We would rather have fewer, better sets than an ocean of filler.

And in every room there is Helfen— the school's tutor. Ask for a hint or an explanation whenever you like; choose whether corrections come live or at the end. The part that makes it stick: Helfen remembers. Every mistake, in any section, is tagged to a grammar concept and quietly brought back with spaced repetition until it stops being a mistake. Your weak spots become your curriculum.

We run this place on plain honesty. What is free is free every day, and what costs money says so before you touch it — the Handbook spells out every allowance. Your data stays in the European Union, your voice recordings are never stored (only the transcript), and we promise no certificates — Übungszeit is a place to practice and genuinely absorb the language, at your own pace, for as long as you like.