What has happened at Sprachfuchs.

Sprachfuchs is free, access with an invitation code

• Creating an account works with an invitation code: register, confirm your email address, choose your exam. For now Sprachfuchs costs nothing. We hand out codes personally, bit by bit.
• Practice exams in the style of Goethe, telc and ÖSD from A1 to C1 (ÖSD B1 follows soon). For telc B2 they are built after the handbook and the 2021 model test, with longer texts, two articles in Reading part 2 and interviews with two voices.
• Answers shuffled anew. At every attempt the correct answers stand in a different place, so that you learn the tasks and not the sequence of letters.
• The large card in “Exams” is always there: “Continue” with your started exam, otherwise a suggestion of what to start with.
• Easier to read: the instruction has more spacing, the letters A to J look like the selection, and in gap-fill texts only the gap is shown.

Learn from your mistakes

From the mistakes in your mistake profile a personal test with 20 tasks is created: you see the wrong place, in your own texts within the sentence where it stood, and type the correct version.

• Adapts. What was wrong most recently comes more often, what you already had right comes less often.
• Mistakes count as improved as soon as you get them right. The tile under “Practise” shows the status.
• Mistake cards in the mistake profile group identical places, with the number of occurrences.

New name, new look: Sprachfuchs

The app is now called Sprachfuchs and has a new face: night blue with orange accents, a fox as its symbol and softer shapes. Exam mode deliberately stays as calm as before.

Install as an app, screen on, result as a PDF

• App: Sprachfuchs can be installed on a phone and a laptop and shows a notice page without a network.
• Screen stays on while a module is running, where the browser allows it.
• Print view of the result sheet that you can save as a PDF.

Phrases, colloquial language and slang

Ten new exercises, two per level from A1 to C1: one on set phrases like “Ich bin dagegen, weil …”, one on colloquial language and slang. Every task comes with a solution and explanation, wrong answers end up in your mistake profile.

Progress tidied up

The mistake profile shows mistakes as cards and can be filtered by kind of mistake. There is also a tab with tips, the history per module and, in the overview, three result cards with the result per task.

Pronunciation with a trend and practice suggestions

In the result overview you now see how your pronunciation develops over time. And under “Where the points go” there is a concrete suggestion for every sound and word: an exercise and a piece of advice.

Result page you can click

Circle charts show your points overall and per part, and a click opens the details. Mistakes and improvements are grouped by category, the differing words underlined. The lists of all raters are merged so that nothing is duplicated or lost.

Community, mistake profile and profile pictures

• Community (voluntary, from 19): leaderboard, friends, private chat with text and voice messages.
• Private chat: only you and your friends see the messages, without a passphrase and on any device.
• Mistake profile across all exercises: categories, trend, recurring mistakes and words.
• Profile picture: cropped to 256 px and saved anew; we do not keep the original.

Exam cards with concrete topics

Every exam card now shows a keyword for each skill saying what it is about, from reading through listening and writing to speaking, in the order of the exam. That way you find topics that have not occupied you yet.

Uniform instructions in all modules

Every task now begins the same way: kind of task, assignment, notes on how to answer, rules and number of listening plays, then an example. The instructions address you in the formal “Sie” form, like in the exam booklet.

All levels from A1 to C1

Profiles in the style of Goethe, telc and ÖSD are stored for A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1, with the particularities of each institute, such as half points at telc A1/A2, rounding down at ÖSD A1 or factor scoring at Goethe A1/A2. New task types: gap-fill, picture choice, free text, multiple choice and “not in the text”.

Explanations in English and Tiếng Việt

With one click on the flag at the top you change the explanation language. The interface and the reasons for the evaluation are now available in three languages.