Jeder Satz hat eine zweite Zeile.
What brings you here?
- TeilenI post about you: make a card, story or carousel in your style and ours.→
- SchreibenI write about you: bios, facts, covers, logos, ready to copy.→
- GestaltenI design with you: the idea, logo, inks, type and every part.→
- ZusammenarbeitenWe’re a company or school: materials for our team, team packs, co-branding.→
Same words. Sixteen percent more letters.
We measured 943 sentence pairs in our books. German used as many words as English, but 16% more letters: compounds, endings, capitals. That difference is our logo: the German line runs 1.16 times as long as its English, and the block underneath is the English.
The comma is not a typo. Germans write decimals with one: 1,16.
Read the German. Lift the English only when you need it.
A page from our books. Every English line is there, under a bar, upside down, or on a transparency you slide over the page. Tap any German word to mark it: it goes into your word list, with its article if it’s in our books.
Ein Designsystem schafft eine gemeinsame Sprache für Designer und Entwickler.
A design system creates a shared language for designers and developers.
Weniger Fehler, da getestete Komponenten wiederverwendet werden.
Fewer errors since tested components are reused.
Informationen und Bedienung müssen klar und verständlich sein.
Information and operation must be clear and understandable.
0 of 3 second lines lifted.
German builds long words from short ones.
Ziel (goal) + Gruppe (group) = die Zielgruppe, the target group. The last part decides the gender: die Gruppe, so die Zielgruppe.
On a phone, pull the two parts together. We only ever cut a word where German joins it, sometimes at a small linking s: Verbesserung|s|potenzial.
The logo is two lines of a page. The bar is a word you haven’t read yet.
Every page hides its own word.
- learngerman.school homeOn an ink: the slab turns white.
- learngerman.school homeInk stays black on cobalt, as on the covers.
- learngerman.school homeOn black: the slab carries the series ink.
- Small spaces: only the two lines remain, the step.
- Make the lines equal. The difference is the point.
- Open a gap. The English line carries the German one.
- Blend or overlap inks. They meet edge to edge.
- Rotate it. Only the English line ever turns, and only all the way.
Six inks from our covers, printed flat, edge to edge.
Inks are printed as flat fields, never as tints or gradients. On an ink, type is black and the second line sits on a white slab. Tap a strip to copy its value.
Auf Stoß.
Every series prints in two inks: its own, and a partner for the second line. They meet edge to edge, like two plates in register. Never on top of each other, never blended: an overlap would print a muddy third colour.
- UX & Product DesignMagenta + Cobalt
- Digital Marketing & PRCobalt + Pink
- Product ManagementLime + Violet
- IT Project ManagementViolet + Lime
- EngineeringOrange + Cobalt
- LeadershipRed + Pink
- People & HRMint + Cobalt
Barrierefreiheit
Fixel, and nothing else.
Fixel Display, 500–900, for every German line, heading and cover. Set tight, set big, cropped by the page if it has to be.
Fixel Text, 400–700, for the English line, body and interface.
Fixel by MacPaw, SIL Open Font License, self-hosted. No other fonts, no font requests to anyone else.
Benutzerfreundlichkeit
- 1,16Decimals with a comma. Thousands with a dot: 1.943.
- „So“German quotes open low and close high.
- ß · ẞEszett has a capital. Fixel has both.
- UX-DesignerinEnglish parts join German words with a hyphen.
- die NutzerinNouns keep their capitals: a free hint that it’s a noun.
Seven professions, seven inks.
Each profession is a series with its own ink. Pull out a spine and this whole page reprints in it: examples, sentences and Studio sheets follow. On our home page, the same choice is the main menu.
Bauteile. Every part, in every state.
The parts this site is built from, live. Pick a part and a state. On a phone there is no hover: we show what your thumb gets instead. Each part is a shortcode in WordPress and an element in the page builder.
Things move because you did something.
Four durations, two eases, and one rule: German prints first, its second line follows a beat later, like two passes through a press. Nothing moves on its own, nothing hijacks your scroll. If your device asks for less motion, everything simply changes state.
A senior colleague, not a cheerleader.
- English gets you hired. German gets you further.
- A supplement for the long step from B1 to B2.
- About 2 in 3 nouns in our books are die.
What you won’t read from us
Fluent in 30 daysUnlock your potentialEffortless
Szenen. Where the brand turns up, and how it should look there.
Real places our sheets end up. Each one with the rule that matters most there. Every preview is printed live by the Studio, in your field’s ink.
Studio. Print it in our style.
For creators, teachers, HR teams, bloggers and readers. Pick a sheet, a sentence from our books and your details; see it in a feed before you post it. The German, the English and the inks are locked, so whatever you print is correct. It all runs in your browser: nothing is uploaded, not even your logo.
Licence. You may use assets made with this Studio to mention, review or recommend learngerman.school and LingoSprint books, on any channel, without asking. Please don't change the German or English text or the colours. What else is allowed?
Werkbank. Sixty seconds, one thing you’ll use tomorrow.
Small tools for the German that actually happens at work. Each one ends with a stamp on your Leseausweis (library card), a result you can keep, and a card if you want to post it. No account. It all stays on this device.
German for your international team.
What we offer
- Materials made for your company: German texts about your product, your teams and the work they do, in the same format as our books. Not a generic book, but one cut to your case.
- Team packs of our books for onboarding and relocation.
- Co-branded welcome cards, intranet banners and posters from the Studio.
Our logo next to yours
- Ours on the left, yours on the right, a thin rule between.
- Same visual height for both; keep the height of our ink bar clear around them.
- Label the pairing “In Zusammenarbeit mit” or “in partnership with”. The Studio builds this for you.
Darf ich …?
Impressum der Marke. About us, for your article.
learngerman.school publishes LingoSprint: bilingual ebooks that teach German through your profession. Each German sentence has its English translation underneath, with vocabulary and grammar notes. Level B1–B2. Written by Max Stepanov, a UX lead in Munich.
learngerman.school publishes LingoSprint, a series of bilingual ebooks for international professionals in Germany. Each book is a real text about one profession, such as UX design or digital marketing, written in current workplace German. Every German sentence is followed by its English translation, with vocabulary and grammar notes for the words that matter at work. The books are for the long step from B1 to B2, as a supplement to a course or for reading on the way to work. They are written by Max Stepanov, a UX lead in Munich, and sold on learngerman.school, Kindle, Google Play Books and Apple Books.
LingoSprint: German for your profession, sentence by sentence. Bilingual ebooks, B1–B2, by learngerman.school.
- Publisher
- learngerman.school, Munich
- Method
- LingoSprint: sentence-by-sentence German–English, vocabulary and grammar notes
- Level
- B1–B2
- Books
- Analytics and User Experience · Design Systems and Pattern Libraries · Establishing and Sustaining a Design System · Digital Marketing Fundamentals
- Author
- Max Stepanov
- Stores
- learngerman.school, Amazon Kindle, Google Play Books, Apple Books
- Typeface
- Fixel by MacPaw
- Contact
- join@learngerman.school. Review copies for bloggers, teachers and creators on request.
Take it with you.
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Logo
For white pages and for dark ones. SVG, outlined, no font needed.
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The step
For avatars, favicons and corners.
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Inks as code
Every ink and its text colour, for CSS or your design tool.
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Fixel
Free from MacPaw, with every German letter, ẞ included.
