Linota guide

Start a short daily mix from Home or Practice: the daily Verbindungen puzzle, three questions and Blitz. Or choose from 16 ways to practise, including word games, quick drills, reading, listening, writing and real-life practice.

Where

1. Practice
2. Today's practice

Cost

No credits for the daily mix

Plans

The wider Practice catalogue includes activities on Basic and Pro and generated content with a displayed credit cost.

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Add a word to Practice to create a question-and-answer card. Remember the meaning, reveal the answer, and rate yourself; your rating decides when the card returns.

Where

1. Knowledge
2. Word menu
3. Add to review
4. Practice
5. Review cards

Cost

No credits

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Questions about the meanings and der, die, das of your saved words: from a word's study note when it has one, otherwise from the dictionary. A round never asks about the same word twice. No review cards needed, and a quiz never changes your review schedule.

Where

1. Practice
2. Quick quiz

Cost

No credits

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Type the missing word into a real sentence taken from your study notes. A round never repeats a word. Umlauts can be typed as ae, oe or ue.

Where

1. Practice
2. Fill the gap

Cost

No credits

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Read the English, then say the whole German sentence. Tap Speak and your phone writes out what you said, so you can compare it with a model answer. A round never repeats a word.

Where

1. Practice
2. Say it yourself

Cost

No credits

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Play with German in six games: Verbindungen groups sixteen words into four sets; Blitz tests your words against the clock; Kreuzworträtsel and Galgenmännchen practise spelling; Endungs-Poker practises articles and endings; Die Bäckerei takes you through a week behind a bakery counter.

Where

1. Practice
2. Games

Cost

No credits

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Answer questions about your saved words before the clock runs out. Each right answer buys time. Choose meanings, German words or der, die, das.

Where

1. Practice
2. Games
3. Blitz

Cost

No credits

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Walk through seven everyday German places in 3D with the on-screen joystick: a supermarket, a doctor's practice, a café, a flat viewing, a train station, an office and a home. Open a thing or a person to see what you might think, say, ask and hear there, from A1 to C1, with English meanings and tips, and save any sentence or word to Knowledge. Switch to List to browse without walking.

Where

1. Places
2. Im Supermarkt, In der Arztpraxis, Im Café, Die Wohnungsbesichtigung, Am Bahnhof, Im Büro or Zu Hause

Cost

No credits

Plans

Every place is made by Linota ahead of time and is the same for every learner, so it never uses AI or credits. Free can walk through every place and open 2 things in each. Basic opens the supermarket, the café, the station and the home in full, and Pro all seven, with listening and saving.

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A short game in a real situation, against the clock: a cancelled train, a call to the doctor's practice, a broken kettle, a flat viewing and the Bürgeramt before it closes. You listen, talk to the people there by typing or speaking, and pass or fail. If you fail, the debrief shows how you could have passed.

Where

1. Practice
2. Real life
3. Missions

Cost

Example: no credits. Own missions: 8 credits, replies and up to 3 retries included

Plans

Every plan can play the example mission: fixed lines, replies chosen from three options, no credits. Basic and Pro get missions written around their saved words, answered by typing or speaking; these are charged once the game is prepared and saved. Resume or retry the same game without another charge.

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Choose what is coming up from Linota's ready-made situations, such as a doctor's appointment, a flat viewing or a job interview. Get German to say and ask, plus what you might hear in reply, at your level.

Where

1. Practice
2. Real life
3. Prepare a situation

Cost

4 credits

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Choose one of 32 topics and a level from A1 to C1, and Linota writes an article or everyday sentences using your saved words. Then play Find my words.

Where

1. Practice
2. Read, listen and write
3. Custom reading

Cost

5 credits per text

Plans

Saved texts are in Saved, Reading practice, free to reopen.

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Mia and Jonas, the AI-voiced hosts of Nebenbei, present a 3 to 5 minute German episode around words you saved: a friendly debate, a story or an overheard conversation. Choose an interest and a level, follow the transcript line by line, tap any word for its meaning, and meet earlier words again a few days later.

Where

1. Practice
2. Read, listen and write
3. Listening episodes

Cost

20 credits per episode, replaying is free

Plans

Every plan can listen to the free pilot episodes. The voices are AI-generated; facts come from Linota's checked library, with sources under the episode.

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Get a writing task that suggests your own words, write in German, and receive corrections with explanations in English, a score, and a next step.

Where

1. Practice
2. Read, listen and write
3. Writing practice

Cost

5 credits per task, feedback included

Plans

Writing tasks use words with a study note. Reports are kept in Saved, Writing reports.

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Keep useful words together for work, travel or an exam. Add words to a collection, filter Knowledge by it, and practise that set on its own.

Where

1. Knowledge
2. Collections and groups
3. Your collections

Cost

No credits

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Share a collection with one person you invite. Both of you can add words, see who has learned which, and play live Blitz or Quick quiz on the same questions.

Where

1. Knowledge
2. Collections and groups
3. Your collection
4. Share

Cost

No credits

Plans

Pro shares up to 5 collections, each with one invited person. Only the person who shares needs Pro: the friend joins and plays on any plan, Free included.

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See your saved words as cards that level up, from Bronze to Mastered, on each day you use them correctly. Browse the album alongside your collections and groups.

Where

1. Knowledge
2. Collections and groups
3. Card album

Cost

No credits

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After 30 saved words, Linota sorts them into real-life situations, writes sentences with your words, and suggests words you are missing. Practise any situation on its own.

Where

1. Knowledge
2. Collections and groups
3. Situations

Cost

8 credits a time; practice is free

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Prefixes your words share and noun endings that tell you the article, such as -ung and -heit. Pairs of similar words with the difference explained are Word twins, next to it. It uses no AI.

Where

1. Knowledge
2. Collections and groups
3. Patterns

Cost

No credits

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Your streak, weekly totals, activity by day, and what you saved, learned and reviewed.

Where

1. Profile
2. Statistics

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Everything Linota made or kept for you in one place: grammar tips, readings, your texts and scans, listening episodes, writing reports, missions, preparations and word packs. Reopening them is free.

Where

1. Profile
2. Saved

Plans

What appears here depends on the features your plan includes.

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Every Monday: what you saved, noted, reviewed, and learned last week, plus the five oldest words still waiting, with their meanings.

Where

1. Your inbox
2. Turn off in Settings, Notifications

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Download a printable study pack of your notes for offline learning, or export your notes to use elsewhere.

Where

1. Knowledge
2. More
3. Download study PDF

Plans

Basic exports CSV. Pro adds richer PDFs with full note detail and Markdown and JSON exports, in Settings, Export study notes.

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Keep a little German in view on your iPhone: cards due, your streak and a word to revisit. Tap Add a word to open Linota's word entry screen.

Where

1. iPhone Home Screen
2. Edit
3. Add Widget
4. Linota

Cost

No credits

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Keep your words, study notes, review cards and word games on your phone so you can practise on a train or plane without signal. Linota shows when you are offline.

Where

1. On your iPhone
2. Saved words and Practice

Cost

No credits for offline practice

Plans

Creating new AI content and browsing websites require a connection.

Choose your German level and goal, light or dark appearance, what Home shows and a daily reminder. The interface has eight languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi and Chinese. Meanings and study notes are in English.

Where

1. Profile
2. Settings

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