The buttons in your language, the sentences in German

Using the app in Turkish while speaking German isn’t a contradiction. It’s a division of labor. Over thirty languages for the user interface: menus, prompts, and the Kılavuz—as long as the translation is available. Learning German happens through sentences. If you translate the buttons and the sentences as well, you’re practicing the wrong thing. If you understand the buttons and say the sentence aloud, you’re on the right track.

DeutschSprechen remains the name, in every language of the interface. I don’t translate that. It’s the brand name, not a German word you have to memorize.

What Gets Translated

The navigation: app settings, the widget, where the maps are located, and how to find the report and block options. If a prompt were in German and you’re at the A1 level, you’d look for the button instead of the sentence. The interface does this search for you—in Arabic, English, Russian, or whatever language you select in the settings. The language you’re learning remains German. Don’t change that just because the buttons are familiar.

A missing sentence in an interface isn’t a reason to give up the exercise. Some pages revert to German if the translation isn’t quite right. In that case, look for the button by its icon and practice anyway. The sentence won’t wait for perfect menu language.

What Doesn’t Translate

Your example sentence. “My name is …” stays in German, even if the card next to it shows a meaning in your language. The meaning is the crutch. The sentence is the goal. SRS brings the card back. You say the German sentence, not the crutch. The AI, role, photo, debate, or situation responds in German. Five switches. Not “explain that to me in Turkish” as a sixth switch. You get the explanation in your language from an outside source—briefly—and then return to the sentence.

Who This Is For

For people who understand the text and fall silent when someone is waiting. The app in Turkish, Arabic, or English takes the embarrassment out of the menus. It doesn’t take it out of your mouth. That remains. An introductory sentence, eight cards, a language group without a camera. That’s the beginning, in whatever interface language you choose.

Children only when accompanied by an adult. The translation of the buttons is not a form of supervision.

Getting started: Language. Who the app is for: the narrow door.

A Practical Evening

Leave the interface just as you see it. Say one sentence in German, out loud. Select the card with that sentence. Don’t switch the interface to see if you can navigate the menus in German too. That’s a different project. “Learning German” is today’s sentence. Let the buttons stay light so your mouth can be heavier. Heavy in a good way: you’re saying something.

If you want the menus in German at some point

Then do it later, once you’ve got the sentences down. Not on the first day, as a test of courage. I know people who switched the interface and then couldn’t find the widget toggle anymore. The toggle is the way to the note on the home screen. You need that more than a German menu. App in Turkish, phrases in German, name DeutschSprechen. Three things that don’t contradict each other. Eight cards. One sentence. Done. You can read the meaning on the card in your own language. Then say the sentence in German—just once—before you swipe. If you only read the meaning, the app in Turkish remains just a translation exercise. That’s not what this evening is about. The evening is about the German sentence—even if it’s a bit clunky, even if it’s short. The buttons stay simple so you have room to breathe. Learning German is measured by the sentence, not by whether the menu is already in German. Eight cards, one of them spoken aloud, then close. Leave the interface alone.

DeutschSprechen keeps the buttons in your language. The sentences remain in German. I’m not changing that just because thirty different interfaces are possible.