German and English are close cousins — Haus is house, Wasser is water, trinken is to drink — which gives English speakers a genuine head start. The decks above concentrate on the everyday vocabulary where that kinship shows most: greetings, numbers, food and family. Two things to notice as you study: every German noun is capitalised (a free reading aid), and the numbers past twenty are said "backwards" (einundzwanzig — one-and-twenty). Learn these core words with spaced repetition before touching grammar tables; a solid vocabulary base makes the famous German cases far less painful when you meet them.

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Read a deck below to preview every word, then sign up free to study it with spaced repetition — the method that schedules each card back right before you would forget it. Ten words a day is the sweet spot: enough to progress fast, small enough to sustain. For the method behind it, see our guide to learning a language with flashcards.

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