Learn German from real news, at your level.

Karte is a web app for learning German. It rewrites real news stories in German at your CEFR level, asks you a few everyday questions each morning, and turns the words you meet into flashcards that are scheduled with spaced repetition. Word explanations, grammar answers, sentence feedback and role-play conversations are all adapted to your level, from A1 to C2.

Yes. You can create an account and use the news reader, daily questions, flashcards, word lookup, grammar answers and conversation practice for free.

Yes, as long as the text is at the right level. Real news gives you current, useful vocabulary and a reason to keep reading, but original German articles are usually written at C1. Karte rewrites each story for your level, lets you tap any word for its meaning, and can colour each sentence by its parts, so you learn the grammar and the vocabulary from the same text.

Karte collects new articles from the BBC, The Guardian, The Hindu and Ars Technica several times a day and rewrites each one in clear German for your level. You can filter by one or more topics, listen to the article, and mark it as read.

In any news article you can turn on a view that shows each sentence as its own block and colours its parts: subject, verb, accusative object, place and time, and subordinate clauses. It makes German word order, such as the verb at the end of a subordinate clause, easy to see.

Every morning Karte prepares a few questions that people in your everyday life might ask you, for example a friend, a colleague, a neighbour or someone on the train. You answer each one with a full German sentence and get a verdict, a corrected version with your changes marked, helpful words to use, and an English translation if you need it.

Karte uses the same proven spaced repetition idea with Again, Hard, Good and Easy grades, but you don’t build cards by hand: looking up a word gives you its meaning, article, plural or conjugation, example sentences and a riddle, ready to save. When you are stuck, you open clues one at a time instead of seeing the answer. And the words come from what you read and say, not from a list.

All six CEFR levels: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2. You choose your level in the settings, and news, questions, explanations, grammar answers and conversations follow it. You can change it at any time.

Yes. In Gespräch you role-play everyday situations such as the bakery, a coffee with a colleague or asking for directions. Your partner replies in German, works in the words you are learning, reads replies aloud if you like, and corrects your mistakes with a short explanation.

No. Karte runs in any modern browser on desktop, Android and iPhone. You can add it to your home screen to open it like an app and to receive practice reminders.