Lautly Coming to iPhone in 2027

German for English speakers

Learn German out loud.

Most apps teach you to recognise German. Lautly is built for speaking it. A course from A1, a memory engine under every word, and a coach that listens when you speak.

In development for iPhone. German A1 first, with A2 and B1 to follow.

Speaking

Ich hätte gern einen Kaffee.

  • Ich96
  • hätte58
  • gern91
  • einen88
  • Kaffee93
hätte needs another go. Listen to it once, then say the sentence again.

Four skills, tracked word by word.

Knowing a word on the page is not the same as saying it. Lautly schedules every word separately for reading, writing, speaking and listening, so a word you can read but not yet say keeps coming back for speaking.

  • Reading

    Recognise the word, then follow the passage around it.

  • Writing

    Spell it from memory, with articles and endings that are right.

  • Speaking

    Say it and see how well each word came out, with a score for each one.

  • Listening

    Understand it at natural speed, not only when it is slowed down.

Something new to speak, read and hear, every day.

Each day brings a fresh set written at your level and checked against it before it reaches you.

  1. Speak

    Today’s scene

    A short role-play conversation: ordering, asking, arranging. You say your part out loud.

  2. Read

    The next episode

    A serial story with characters you get to know, one episode a day.

  3. Listen

    Today’s listening

    News, a diary, an interview or a radio play, changing through the week.

A real course underneath.

Ten A1 units take you from introducing yourself to shopping, getting around and seeing a doctor, with six theme packs alongside. Grammar comes in where you need it: articles, cases, word order, separable verbs.

Preparing for an exam? Give Lautly the date and it tells you plainly whether you are on track.

Calm by design.

No mascot and no confetti. Nobody guilt-trips you for missing a day. Sessions are short, feedback says what to fix, and any limit is shown before you start.

When your speaking is scored, the recording goes to Microsoft’s speech service in the EU and is not kept after scoring.

laut German for loud, and der Laut is a speech sound. That is the whole idea.