RESOURCES
The free resources that survive scrutiny.
Not a museum of every app — a short list where each entry has one job it does well, matched to your level. Everything here is free, established, and used by the 77-day roadmap itself.
COURSES — THE SPINE
Nicos Weg — Deutsche Welle ↗
A free video curriculum (A1→B1) with a story spine, professionally sequenced lessons, exercises and printable sheets. The strongest free German course in any language.
Complete, free without asterisks, public broadcasting.
Goethe-Institut — practice materials ↗
Official model tests for every level (Start Deutsch A1/A2 and up), free PDFs and audio.
The exam rehearsal material — nothing else is the real format.
LISTENING — IN THE COMPREHENSION BAND
Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten — DW ↗
The day's news read slowly for learners, with transcript. The transcript protocol applies directly.
Daily, graded, current — the bridge to real audio.
Easy German (YouTube) ↗
Street interviews with dual subtitles (German + English), level-tagged.
Real speech at learner speed; the A2 on-ramp to native audio.
SPEAKING — SOLO FIRST
Your course audio + a timer ↗
Shadowing: repeat the episode dialogue aloud, matching sound and rhythm. Ten minutes daily.
The highest-leverage solo drill there is — and free.
Tandem partners (when A1 is banked) ↗
Goethe's practice portal lists exchange formats; any weekly human conversation works.
Correction and unpredictability, after the motor base exists.
VOCABULARY — SPACED, NOT CRAMMED
Anki (free on desktop/Android) ↗
Spaced repetition. Production cards, article-fused nouns, course-chapter tags.
The retention machinery every method is missing.
Goethe A1/A2 wordlists ↗
The official vocabulary floor per level, as PDF.
A checklist, not a mountain — see the domain maps on this site.