Learn Low German online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneVery easy for an English speaker, ~784 hrs

On our measured language map, its closest relatives are German, Dutch and Pennsylvania Dutch. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.

one sentence from the course
Low GermanIkgahelk dagna arbeid
EnglishIgoto workevery day
split into its working pieces by the course itself, and paired with the English underneath. Tap a piece to light up what it pairs with. Every one of the 2,000 sentences works like this.
2,000real sentences
1,408patterns discovered
~784hours from English
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Real Low German sentences from the course

Verbinnen uns.
Join us.
Wack op!
Wake up!
Vergeven mi.
Forgive me.
Ik bün blied.
I am happy.
Ik kann swemmen.
I can swim.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Low German sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,408 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 784 hours of study. Read how it works.

Learn Low German from your own language

Most apps only teach Low German through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:

EnglishDanishDutchFrenchFrisianGermanOld EnglishTelugu

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GermanDutchPennsylvania DutchFrisianLuxembourgishHunsrikAfrikaansLimburgish

Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.