Learn German from the pages you already read.
Select any word on any page. GermanRat translates it, speaks it in clear German, and saves it to a deck you can review and export to Anki. Your textbook is the whole web.
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Warum der Haushund den Menschen versteht
Studien zeigen, dass der Haushund seit Jahrtausenden eng mit dem Menschen lebt und dabei gelernt hat, Gesten und Stimmen erstaunlich genau zu deuten.
Reading becomes a deck. The deck becomes fluency.
GermanRat is not another translator you forget. Every word you meet in the wild becomes something you can come back to.
Read
Browse German news, blogs, docs, anything. Hit a word you don't know.
Translate & hear
Select it. Get the meaning, a pronunciation hint, and clear spoken German.
Save
One click keeps the word with its sentence, examples, and audio cues.
Review & export
Build a personal deck from your real reading and send it to Anki.
Small, sharp, and built for actual learning.
Translate anywhere
Highlight text on any site and get a natural English ⇄ German translation in place. No copy-paste, no new tab.
Hear it spoken
Clear, learner-paced German from AI voices, or instant native browser speech when you want zero latency.
Real example sentences
See each word used naturally, with the German sentence and its English meaning, so it sticks in context.
Your personal deck
Saved words keep their source sentence, translation, pronunciation, and examples, built from what you actually read.
One-click Anki export
Export your deck to CSV that imports straight into Anki: German on the front, meaning and audio cues on the back.
Private by design
No servers, no analytics. Your key and your saved words live only in your browser.
Learn from the web without turning your browsing into a dataset.
- GermanRat runs no server. There is nothing for us to collect.
- Selected text is never captured silently. Words are saved only when you choose to.
- Your API key and deck stay in your browser, sent only to the AI provider you choose.
- No tracking, no ads, no account required.
Free, and yours.
GermanRat is a free tool. You bring your own OpenAI or OpenRouter key, so you pay only your provider's usage (cents), and nothing to us. No account required, no key needed for native pronunciation.
The next page you read is your next lesson.
Install GermanRat, add your API key, and start saving words from the web in under two minutes.
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