German · Deutsch
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About German
- Language family
- Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic
- Where it's spoken
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg
- Speakers
- roughly 135 million native speakers
German descends from the West Germanic dialects spoken across central Europe and standardized gradually after Martin Luther's 16th-century Bible translation helped fix a common written form. It is the most widely spoken native language in the European Union. Its close cousin Dutch and its more distant cousin English share large amounts of core vocabulary and grammar with it.
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FSI German course
Public-domain FSI German courseware — hub anchor.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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Live Lingua German library
Public-domain course downloads with audio where available.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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DLI GLOSS German
Search GLOSS for authentic reading/listening lessons.
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course free | B1-C1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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DW Learn German
Excellent free multimedia German course.
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course free | A1-C1 | free | 2026-07-22 |