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Listen to everyday conversations and public transportation announcements, and understand the content.
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In German, understanding noun gender, the four cases, and verb position in sentences is central. It is important to practice grasping the structure of the whole sentence, not just word inflections.
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Practice listening, reading, grammar, and vocabulary, plus shadowing and word games.
📖 Reading
Read notices, emails, and short articles to grasp sentence structure and meaning.
📝 Grammar & Vocabulary
Covers noun gender, case inflection, articles, word order, verb conjugation, separable verbs, and more.
🗣️ Shadowing
Speak along while listening to audio to become familiar with German sounds, rhythm, and natural expressions.
🏰 Word Quest
Learn basic and business vocabulary while progressing through an adventure RPG story.
🧩 Word Match
Review the vocabulary you've learned with a game that matches words to their meanings.
Learn German every day. The FRENG question system
At FRENG, we apply our original learning format—modeled on the listening and reading section structure of the TOEIC® Listening & Reading Test—to German as well. All language questions, including English, are independently created by FRENG and are not official TOEIC® tests or official questions. Grammar and vocabulary questions are created to match the characteristics of each language.
120 minutes every day. All new questions.
It's not just repeating the same questions as yesterday. New mock tests are added every day, and the number of questions you can study keeps piling up.
You can study in just a few minutes a day.
Even if there are 120 minutes' worth of questions each day, you don't have to answer them all.
Just 5 minutes of listening during your commute. Just 10 minutes of reading during lunch break. A few grammar questions on your weak points before bed.
Study today's material at your own pace, as much as you can manage.
We value helping you keep going without overexerting yourself.
Apply the practical TOEIC® question format used worldwide to learning German.
TOEIC® is an English proficiency test used in more than 160 countries around the world. It is particularly strong at measuring practical English skills, with an emphasis on communication in business and the workplace.
Rather than simply testing knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, it uses as its subject matter situations actually encountered in business and daily life, such as workplace conversations, meetings, phone calls, business trips, contacting clients, emails, advertisements, and informational notices.
It also consists of 7 Parts that systematically check practical language ability, including questions where you look at a photo and understand the situation, questions where you choose an appropriate response to a question, questions where you listen to and comprehend conversations and announcements, and questions where you read emails and documents and understand their content.
FRENG has applied this practical and systematic TOEIC® question format to learning German.
Drawing on the wide range of business and everyday topics and question structures used in TOEIC®, we provide original learning questions that let you practice German listening and reading. Rather than simply moving the settings and characters to German-speaking regions, it is a structure for learning common, U.S.-centered topics in German.
In addition, it combines grammar and vocabulary questions that are important in learning German, such as noun gender, the four cases, article declension, verb position, and separable verbs.
This allows you to train not only memorization of words and grammar, but also the comprehensive language skills needed to listen to and read German and accurately understand its content.
* TOEIC® is an English test. The other-language questions introduced on this page are FRENG's original materials and are not official TOEIC® tests.
* TOEIC® is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS). All FRENG questions, including the English version, are originally produced across all 8 languages and are not official TOEIC® tests or official questions. FRENG is not approved by or affiliated with ETS or IIBC.
Question formats by Part
PART 1Photo questions
Listen to a description of a photo and choose the answer
PART 2Response questions
Choose the response to a question or statement
PART 3Conversation questions
Listen to a conversation between multiple people and answer the questions
PART 4Announcement questions
Listen to explanations and announcements and answer the questions
PART 5Short text fill-in-the-blank
Check vocabulary and grammar
PART 6Long passage fill-in-the-blank
Choose the word or phrase that fits the context
PART 7Reading comprehension
Read practical texts and answer the questions
* The above is an introduction to the study format. It is not an official TOEIC® test or official question set.
Features and Key Points of Learning German
What you will learn on this page
Three Noun Genders
When you memorize nouns in Word Quest and Word Match, you also check their articles.
Four Cases and Article Changes
In Short text fill-in-the-blank, you practice choosing the article or noun ending that fits the sentence.
Finite Verb in Second Position and Subordinate Clauses
In Long passage fill-in-the-blank and Reading comprehension, you get a grip on sentence structure while paying attention to where the verb goes.
Separable Verbs
In Reading comprehension and Listening, you read (or listen to) the whole sentence to the end and practice grasping the meaning of the verb.
Compound Words and Long Sentences
You build your vocabulary in Word Quest and Word Match, and practice reading long texts in Reading comprehension.
How to proceed with learning German
From basics to application, following the order below as a guide will make it easier to organize what you study. You may also start from the middle depending on your learning experience.
Get used to German sounds through shadowing and Part 1 and Part 2 listening
Build your vocabulary with Word Quest and take on the conversations and announcements in Part 3 and Part 4
Check familiar expressions with grammar and reading questions
* This is a suggested study approach and does not indicate level divisions or course names within the FRENG app.
Frequently asked questions about learning German
Listening and Reading are said to be German versions of the English TOEIC®-style mock tests created by FRENG. What are the benefits of learning this way?
TOEIC® is an English test used in more than 160 countries around the world. In Japan and South Korea, many companies use it as a guide for hiring and promotion.
The topics of the questions are all workplace and everyday situations, such as meetings, phone calls, business trips, emails, and notices. For that reason, TOEIC® scores are widely used as a guide to how well someone can understand English in business settings.
The German version of FRENG turns this type of question into German. Because you can listen to and read workplace and everyday situations in the same question format as TOEIC®, it helps you build the ability to understand business situations in German.
Can I learn German for free?
Yes. FRENG is a service that provides German learning content for free.
When starting German, what should I study first?
For German, getting used to the sounds is the most efficient approach. Put reading aside for now and start with shadowing. The short sentences are built around situations you would actually encounter, so practice them as many times as you like until they become your own. You don't need to learn grammar rules first. As you listen a lot and speak out loud, you will naturally start to notice unnatural phrasing.
For vocabulary, Word Quest plays audio for each word, so you can solve them even if you can't read the letters.
Beginners can solve Part 1 (Photo questions) and Part 2 (Response questions) of Listening. Part 3 is Conversation questions and Part 4 is Announcement questions. They are harder than Parts 1 and 2, but they are essential for real conversations with German speakers, so be sure to give them a try.
The important thing is to always review after solving Part 3 and Part 4. When you reopen a question you've already solved, you can choose between "Try again" and "View translation." Pressing "View translation" plays the audio of the same question, with subtitles and translation shown at the same time. Repeating this will help it come naturally to you.
How do you practice German grammar?
Rather than just memorizing rules, find the forms within example sentences and repeatedly check them through short fill-in-the-blank exercises and reading comprehension. It's especially good to focus on practicing "the four cases and article declension."
How can I improve my German listening comprehension?
Listen to short audio, check the parts you couldn't catch in writing, and then practice the sound groupings through shadowing. For long sentences, listen to the end before checking the meaning.
How can I remember the gender of German nouns?
We recommend learning nouns together with their articles. Nouns you learned in Word Quest and Word Match can also be checked in Short text fill-in-the-blank.
How should I read long words?
Even long words become easier to understand if you break them into parts using words you already know as clues. Build your vocabulary with Word Quest and Word Match, and get used to it through Reading comprehension.
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FRENG supports learning in 8 major languages.