lingioA1 TO B2 · INTENSIVE GOETHE, ÖSD, AND TELC PREPARATION
Pass Your Goethe, ÖSD, or telc Exam: Earn an Official Certificate and Make Your Life in the D-A-CH Countries a Reality
Whether you are planning an Ausbildung, university study, a family visa, or an au pair year, you need one essential qualification: an official German language certificate. Lingio trains the grammar you will be tested on, from articles (der, die, das) and Stammformen to Perfekt and Genitiv. Its structured learning path helps you arrive at the Prüfung well prepared.
Lingio.app: A complete platform for learning German and other foreign languages in a structured way, independently or with friends.
Your Goal for Learning German
A work-and-study route into a professional career in Germany. Most programmes require a B1 or B2 certificate.
Prepare for a skilled-worker visa if you have a job offer and need to prove that you can use German at work.
Meet the visa requirement for joining a spouse or family member settled in Germany, which usually starts with an A1 certificate.
Live with a host family for one year. An A1 certificate is the main visa requirement, and stronger German helps you settle in comfortably.
Eight core features for one goal: your official certificate.
Every Lingio feature works together to help you pass your exam. The words you practise in flashcards link straight to full dictionary entries. Practice quizzes open when you finish the material, and your personal notes stay organised beside each word or story. Scheduled classes with experienced instructors give you one structured learning system in a single account.
Learn new vocabulary and keep it in your long-term memory.
Lingio uses FSRS, a smart algorithm that knows when you are beginning to forget a word. Difficult words appear more often, while words you already know wait weeks before they return. This automatic schedule makes your study time more efficient, so you can master thousands of important words before exam day.
- More than 2,400 Goethe-standard words from A1 to B2 are ready to study.
- Up to 12 exercise types per word, including articles (der/die/das), plurals, Stammformen, and Genitiv.
- Focus on learning while the algorithm sets the best review schedule for you.
- You type the article yourself, so the answer has to come from memory.
- You grade the recall as Good.
- That card comes back in 4 days. The plural card, same word, comes back tomorrow.
Learn live with experienced instructors who know the Goethe exam standard.
In Lingio’s online classes, you learn face to face in interactive sessions with experienced instructors and students at your level. Our instructors understand the curriculum and practical strategies that help you approach the Goethe exam prepared and confident.
- Regular interactive classes scheduled for your timezone
- Track attendance and daily assignments in one organised place
- A shared discussion board for notes and collaboration with your cohort
- The session opens a room inside the app, and membership is checked before you enter.
- Your instructor and your classmates arrive as tiles.
- Joining is what records your attendance, so nobody has to take a register.
Structured German Lessons, Chapter by Chapter
Each level is designed to help you learn step by step. Every grammar topic, such as Modalverb or Nebensatz, is first explained in clear, simple language. Then you see it in real dialogue, practise through interactive quizzes, and write sentences of your own.
- More than 100 lessons arranged in a clear, systematic order
- Straightforward grammar explanations from the start
- Understand sentence patterns, practise interactively, then write your own
- The course runs ten lessons in order, and each one you finish moves the bar.
- The quiz for a lesson opens only after you finish it.
- The last lesson closes the course, and the day you finished it is recorded.
Build Your German Through Interactive News and Stories
Courses and classes are not the only way to build vocabulary. Read engaging news and stories, and tap any unfamiliar word to see a translation that fits its sentence. You can learn German more flexibly while keeping up with current events.
- Contextual translations for every word, available on demand
- Filter reading by the topics you enjoy most
- Choose word-by-word or sentence-by-sentence translations to suit your study
- Three German news stories on a shelf, each one marked B1.
- The first opens: the German passage, and a bar telling you to tap a word.
- One word takes a tap, gesperrt, and the bar fills with the word and what it means in this sentence.
- Under it sits the plain form, sperren, with a link to the full dictionary entry. The passage never moves.
Test Your Understanding and Track Your Progress with Interactive Quizzes
Check that you have mastered your course and class material with interactive quizzes. Work independently or practise live with classmates. Your results appear as soon as the quiz ends, with a clear record of your progress.
- Review independently or test your understanding with classmates
- Quizzes tailored to your topics and level
- Quiz results and scores are recorded automatically so you can track your progress
- The whole class answers the same question against one shared clock.
- The right answer stays hidden until the timer runs out, even from the app.
- Two correct answers, two different scores, because the faster one is worth more.
Standings after this question: 1. Mira — answered in 6.4s, scoring 840, total 3240; 2. Rafi — answered in 15.2s, scoring 620, total 2920; 3. Elif — did not answer, scoring 0, total 2850.
An Interactive German Dictionary with Complete Grammar Guidance
Most dictionaries only give you a literal translation. Lingio shows the full grammar behind each word, from verb conjugation tables and Genitiv forms to noun articles and everyday example sentences.
- Complete verb conjugation across every tense
- Article (der/die/das), plural, and Genitiv information for nouns
- Contextual German and Indonesian example sentences, free to access
- The word page opens on abbiegen, marked strong and trennbar, with all six tenses labelled and still empty.
- The prefix ab separates from the front of the word and settles behind the stem: ich biege ab.
- Präteritum follows, then both compound tenses, with the prefix still detached in every one of them.
- Futur I and Futur II arrive with the prefix back inside the word, and the column holds there.
Create Personal Notes and Pin Them Directly to Your Study Material
Capture important points while taking a course, attending a live class, or reading the news. Format your notes neatly, add supporting media, and control who can see them. Keep notes private or share them with fellow learners so you can learn from one another.
- A complete editor for notes on every study topic
- Set note privacy: keep it private or share it with others
- Set automatic reminders to revisit important notes
- A note panel with nothing in it yet: an empty title, an empty note, set to Private, and Save note out of reach.
- A German title lands, then the note's first line, and Save note becomes available.
- The rest of the note is written, its bold and its code arriving already formatted, and the note is switched from Private to Shared, which means anyone on this page.
- Saving it puts the note under the composer, beside the things a note can be attached to: words, stories, lessons.
Test Your Readiness with Goethe-Standard Mock Exams
Lingio mock exams mirror real exam conditions across four modules: Lesen, Hören, Schreiben, and Sprechen. Practice sessions use accurate time limits and official passing standards, so you can measure your ability before registering for the real exam.
- Question formats and structures designed to match the official Goethe-Institut standard
- Detailed explanations for every question you miss
- Words that cause mistakes are saved automatically to your review queue
- The mock-exam screen lists four modules: Lesen, Hören, Schreiben and Sprechen.
- Three of them are marked Coming soon.
- Reading is the one that opens, and it is a timed sitting marked against real pass marks.
Designed by a Software Developer and Goethe-Institut Superintensive Course Alumnus
Born from Personal Experience Before a B1 Exam
Lingio.app grew out of my own experience taking Superintensive A1 to B1 classes at the Goethe-Institut in Bandung. After investing six months and about Rp25 million, I needed an efficient way to deepen my vocabulary while working as a programmer for a German company.
That immediate need led me to build Lingio, so more people could learn German effectively.
Accessible and Affordable for Every Learner
Learning German should not have to be expensive. After experiencing the cost of intensive courses myself, I committed to making exam preparation accessible to more people.
For about Rp899,000 a year, the equivalent of 16 to 20 cups of coffee or roughly 4% of an in-person course, you can access complete, structured exam preparation in Lingio.
From the Goethe-Institut classroom in Bandung
Some of the people behind Lingio
What learners say.
This is by far better than Duolingo or Memrise, it has more features to learn German.
I was able to learn faster with Lingio's drilling method, just weeks before B1 exam, danke sehr Pram!
Lingio helped me achieved Goethe A1 in Bandung with their mock exams.
I like Lingio's Stories feature, reading news while learning new German words.
Big thanks to Lingio Deutsch A1 - A2 courses, I passed Goethe A2 certification in 1x shot.
Who knows later I will start a new journey in Swiss? Therefore I am preparing myself by taking some German courses here..
Yes. Lingio has a Free plan and a Pro plan. With the Free plan, you can start learning without a credit card or time limit and review words you have already learned as often as you need. Pro unlocks every exercise, the course curriculum, and much higher daily limits. Both plans are completely ad-free. Visit the pricing page for the full feature comparison.
The vocabulary and grammar from A1 to B2 are broadly the same across certification providers. Lingio’s courses, exercises, and dictionary are therefore useful for Goethe, telc, and ÖSD exams. The reading mock exams (Lesen) follow the Goethe format, which is very similar to telc and ÖSD but not identical.
FSRS, or Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler, is a modern memory-scheduling algorithm. It predicts when you are beginning to forget a word and brings it back at the right time. Unlike older flashcard apps that repeat words on rigid intervals, FSRS saves time by focusing your reviews on words you have not yet mastered.
Lingio provides complete material from A1 to B2, built around official Goethe active vocabulary. More than 2,400 words include detailed grammar information: article gender (der/die/das), plurals, Genitiv, Stammformen (the three principal verb forms), and comparative and superlative forms.
Right now, you can practise written recall and take reading mock exams (Lesen) with official passing standards. Hören, Schreiben, and Sprechen practice is in active development. For speaking, join interactive classes with an instructor and classmates who share your exam goal.
No. The Lingio Dictionary is free to use without signing in. Search for a word and view verb conjugation tables, plurals, Genitiv forms, and example sentences straight away.
Take Your First Step Today
Your first step towards life in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland starts here. Secure full Lingio access with our special founding offer.
This special founding offer is only available for a limited time. Subscribe now at the founding price and you can keep this lower rate for every future Pro renewal. Start your journey to mastering German with Lingio.