Tell a small story every day, and learn German from your own life.
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Every story goes all the way round, a few minutes a step, and each step opens when you finish the one before. Here’s each one in the app, on Mira’s story.
Your story
A minute about your day, in your own language
Gerok’s home on a first visit, today’s question over the microphone. Mira talks about her day for a few seconds and sends it, and her story is made right there, stage by stage, until it’s ready.
Your story
At your level, read aloud
Her story’s cover: its picture and its German title. Played, the German comes in over the player a sentence at a time, each word lit as it’s said, starting with „Also, heute habe ich Lev von der Kita abgeholt, und es hat natürlich geregnet.“
Learn
6 to 12 words from your story
Words from her story, one at a time, each set large over its sentence as it plays: „die Kita“ (daycare, nursery), then „abholen“ (to pick someone up). A word later, each is caught in that sentence among three of her words: the first right, the second missed and put right, with what it means.
Learn
2 to 4 patterns your story uses
A pattern from her story, „Das Perfekt mit haben“, in her sentence „Also, heute habe ich Lev von der Kita abgeholt, und es hat natürlich geregnet.“ She taps the words that show it (habe, abgeholt, hat, geregnet), and its rule comes up on a card. For what happened: a form of haben comes second, and the past participle goes to the end. Then she puts those words back in order.
Practise
About 8 questions, each one explained
Questions on her story, one after another: the article for „Erzieherin“, answered right (die); what „der Ausflug“ means, missed, then put right with why; and a gap, filled with „abgeholt“: „Ich habe Lev von der Kita ___.“
Practise
A chat in 8 to 10 voice messages
A talk on her story’s topic in voice messages, each lit as it’s said. Anna: „Weißt du schon? Die Kita macht am Freitag einen Ausflug.“ Paul: „Echt? Wohin denn? Und was ist, wenn es regnet?“ Anna: „Die Erzieherin sagt, dann brauchen die Kinder Gummistiefel.“ Then questions on it: one answered right, one missed and explained.
Speak
Up to 6 sentences to say back
A sentence of her story plays, its words blurred so it’s heard first: „Also, heute habe ich Lev von der Kita abgeholt, und es hat natürlich geregnet.“ Mira says it back, and her try comes back with every word that came through in green, all but „geregnet“.
Speak
A talk about your day, out loud
Paul asks about her story: „Und? Was hat die Erzieherin über Freitag gesagt?“ Mira answers out loud: „Ich glaube, am Freitag es gibt einen Ausflug.“ He replies, and going over the talk afterwards, the place where she slipped is marked, and she picks the better words for it: „gibt es“.
Keep it
Each card back just before you’d forget
Today’s review, a card of each kind from her story: what „die Erzieherin“ means, chosen right; the article for „Kita“, missed and put right; and the words of „Das Perfekt mit haben“ put back in order in her sentence.
Free: a story a day · no card needed
Mira and her story are a sample. Its German and voices were made by AI, as yours would be.
Tell what’s going on in your life, and that’s the German you learn: words for your own people, plans and places, ready for tomorrow.
Your story: “My son’s first trip with the Kita”
„Der erste Kita-Ausflug meines Sohnes“
We care about your pace and your flow, not your screen time. A language sticks when it comes little and often, so each day with Gerok is small, and everything in it makes tomorrow easy to come back to.
5 days in a row
Thursday was quiet, and that’s fine: one quiet day in every seven is forgiven.
Tap a day to skip it.
What you tell Gerok is personal, and it’s treated that way. Here’s what that means, in plain words.
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No analytics either. Gerok is paid for by Plus, never by your data.
Trusted providers, each doing its part
OpenAI writes your German and your lessons and paints your pictures, and doesn’t train its models on them. ElevenLabs writes down what you say and reads the German aloud.
What you practise isn’t kept
What you say in Shadowing, Retell and a role-play is written down to answer you, then dropped. We don’t keep the recording or the talk.
Delete means delete
Delete a story, and its recordings, German, lessons and picture go with it. Ask, and we delete your whole account.
Your voice, only with your yes
A copy of your voice is made only when you ask and confirm it’s yours. Delete it any time, and it’s deleted at ElevenLabs too.
We never see your card
Payments are handled by our payment provider. We only learn whether you’re on Plus, and until when.
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No card needed to start. Plus is for when one story a day isn’t enough.
| Free $0 for good Start free | Gerok Plus $9.99 a month or $79 a year Get Gerok Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Stories a day, each with its whole learning path | 1 | 5 |
| Today’s review and a daily reminder | Included | Included |
| Role-play answers and retellings a day | 12 | 60 |
| Shadowing tries a day | 30 | 150 |
| Pictures of your stories a day | Not included | 3 |
| Your stories read in your own voice | Not included | Included |
Daily limits start afresh at your midnight. Cancel Plus any time; it stays until the end of what you’ve paid for.
Tap one, and Gerok answers.
Do I need some German already?
No. Pick your level, from A1 to C2, and your stories come back in German at that level. Not sure? A2 is a good start, and you can change it any time.
A minute, in your own language. The German will be waiting for you.