Learn · German

Learn German for the moments that matter.

Each scenario below is a self-contained rehearsal with a free 60-second preview — pick the moment you actually face, then drill it with Sora until it sounds like the room you walked into.

• Business meeting · Geschäftsbesprechung

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  In a Berlin conference room, slipping from Sie to du at the wrong moment in a status update can flip an engineering checkpoint into a personal disagreement. The wrong separable-prefix verb on the action item — "ich übergebe" instead of "ich gebe ab" — is the kind of mistake your counterpart will quietly fix in their head and never raise again.

• Doctor visit · Arztbesuch

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  In a Munich or Hamburg Arztpraxis, the assistant at the front desk is "Sie" while the doctor might slip into "du" — mixing them inside one visit reads as either cold or inappropriate, both of which derail the visit. The noun-case shift between "Ich habe Schmerzen" (accusative: copy is precise) and "Ich habe Kopfschmerzen" (also accusative) is a single noun away from being wrong.

• Travel & tourism · Reise & Tourismus

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  In a Berlin U-Bahn station, "Entschuldigung, wo ist die Apotheke?" lands the right way every time — accusative, polite Sie, noun second. Ask for the same pharmacy without the case-marker translation and the ticket counter hears "Wo ist Apotheke" as broken half-Deutsch. The case is the friction; the politeness is the cost.