Cool MateFor German speakers
English for
German speakers.
Cool Mate translates every word, example, and grammar note into German. Real video clips, native English audio, and a feed for German speakers who already know more English than they think.
Free to start. No textbook. No streak shame.
Built for German speakers
Tuned to how German speakers actually learn English.
German translations everywhere
Definitions, examples, and grammar notes translated by native German editors.
Phrasal verbs without panic
Pick up, get on, look after, run into. German uses separable verbs differently. The feed drills the patterns.
Word stress that German underplays
English uses stress to change meaning. The feed gives both versions side by side.
Miss a week, keep your progress
The Leitner box quietly catches you back up. No daily pressure.
Easy wins
German speakers already know these.
Words that look or sound nearly the same in German and English. Free vocabulary the day you start.
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Watch out
The traps German speakers usually fall into.
False friends, missing sounds, and the patterns school never warned you about.
Bekommen means to receive. Become is werden.
Gift in German means poison. Present is Geschenk.
Ich will means I want. I will is Ich werde.
German has no TH. Think and sink collapse without practice.
English stress changes meaning: REcord versus reCORD. German stress is more predictable. The slow-mo audio helps.
Sample words
Real English challenges to try right now.
A taste of the Cool Mate feed. Tap any card to see the clip, audio, examples, and German translations.
Set
B1verb
to prepare or arrange something so that it is ready for use or in position
Will
B1verb
to want or like
Plus
B1preposition
used when the two numbers or amounts mentioned are being added together
Truth
B1noun
the true facts about something, rather than the things that have been invented or guessed
Coin
B1noun
a small flat piece of metal used as money
File
B1noun
a box or folded piece of card for keeping loose papers together and in order
Kiss
B1verb
to touch somebody with your lips as a sign of love or sexual desire or when saying hello or goodbye
Breathe
B1verb
to take air into your lungs and send it out again through your nose or mouth
Mom
B1noun
a mother
Stuff
B1noun
used to refer to a substance, material, group of objects, etc. when you do not know the name, when the name is not important or when it is obvious what you are talking about
Mix
B1verb
if two or more substances or things mix or you mix them, they combine, usually in a way that means they cannot easily be separated
Economy
B1noun
the relationship between production, trade and the supply of money in a particular country or region
Where to start
Pick a starting level that matches your reality.
We suggest B1 for most German speakers.
Most German speakers can start at B1 thanks to school English and shared Germanic roots. The app reorders the queue based on a quick placement.
How it works
Built for the way memory actually works.
Learn the phrase the way it's actually said.
Every challenge is a 3 to 15 second cut from a real show, news clip, or talk. You hear the rhythm, the stress, and the face behind the words.
An algorithm that times every clip.
An invisible Leitner box runs in the background. Each word comes back at the moment you're about to forget it. Fifty years of memory research, one tap.
Native audio, full speed and slow.
Every word has full-speed and slow-mo native audio. Tap once to copy the pronunciation the way a native actually says it.
Twelve native languages.
Definitions, examples, and grammar notes translate into your native language. Switch any time.
Questions
English for German speakers, answered.
Pick your CEFR level
Start where you are. Climb at your speed.
The first 500 words that unlock everything.
Open A1 English →Hold a real conversation. Slowly, but really.
Open A2 English →Watch shows. Talk shop. Live abroad.
Open B1 English →Sound like a person, not a textbook.
Open B2 English →Argue, joke, persuade. In English.
Open C1 English →Native-adjacent, on a good day.
Open C2 English →Scan with phone