Workplace German for professionals · B2–C1
FocusGerman is not a course. You get hired into a fictional German company — and survive real work across nine departments: payment reminders, job interviews, site meetings, IT outages, supplier escalations. With characters whose mood reacts to how diplomatically you speak. Free, no account, no paywall.
Frau Nowak
Lieferantin · Stimmung: zufrieden
Your emails are grammatical but read like English wearing a German suit. Colleagues notice; nobody tells you.
The customer calls, speaks at full speed, and your B2 certificate is suddenly worth nothing.
"Grundsätzlich möglich" means no. "Das nehmen wir mit" means never. Textbooks don't teach this layer.
Your boss wants results. You get the goal, the constraints, and the stakes.
The exact phrases and register notes for this situation — diplomatic, firm, or escalating.
A phone call or meeting where you pick what to say — the other side's mood reacts to your tone, and every choice comes with feedback.
Your critical moments annotated, and the better phrasing you could have used.
The Gesprächsnotiz and follow-up email — because in Germany, it didn't happen unless it's written down.
Every recurring mistake is tracked. You watch your own weaknesses shrink, mission by mission.
A Düsseldorf Mittelstand holding, ~800 employees, and your new employer. Nine departments, one career: apply to a department, work through real situations one by one, earn German grades and points instead of salary, get promoted — and leave every department with a real Arbeitszeugnis.
Every mission in every department is open — play in your browser, your progress stays on your device.