Best YouTube Channels to Learn English for German Speakers (2026)

Weekly lessons built around real situations — ordering and paying in a restaurant, for example — plus a long A1 to C2 self-test and a lesson on building sentences without translating in your head first. Short quizzes on points like do or does fill the gaps between lessons. A good single home base if you want one teacher and a steady rhythm.

Made by a German who moved to England at 18. His current series, Tägliches Englisch zum Nachsprechen, is five to seven minutes a day of repeat-after-me practice at B1 — exactly the daily speaking habit school English rarely builds. On an English-language YouTube the channel appears as English with Ty.

A teacher with more than ten years of teaching English who has lived and worked in Sydney. The lessons are about speaking: habits for sounding more fluent, practising without a conversation partner, and discussion phrases for oral exams. His shorts take one wrong English sentence and explain why it is wrong.

Run by someone who lived in Houston, Texas for three and a half years. Short videos answer questions only a German speaker asks — how to say doch, or Darf ich mal vorbei? — and longer ones teach the tenses the way native speakers actually use them, from will against going to, to the present perfect.

Its motto: if you want to speak English, you have to speak English. The channel now publishes mostly short quizzes — a German idiom such as auf dem Holzweg sein and its English equivalent, or one word German speakers tend to mispronounce. The longer grammar lessons are a few years old but still useful.

Short grammar videos, most under five minutes, with matching exercises on the channel's website. Recent lessons cover the simple present, the simple past and questions with do, does and did, and there is a set of short listening tests on places like Scotland, Australia and New York. Teachers are explicitly allowed to share the videos on school platforms.

A teacher based in Austria explaining English quickly and plainly, from sentence structure to the main tenses — the present perfect in four minutes, for example. Newer videos go beyond grammar to the core verbs, adjectives and travel phrases you need to hold a conversation.

One of the biggest German education channels, covering every school subject, so search for the English topic you need. Its English videos are compact explanations of topics like the passive, reported speech and writing a summary, and new ones were still being added in September 2026.

Short explanations and exercises for school English, including preparation for the Mittlerer Schulabschluss. Several videos deal with German speakers in particular: English words Germans almost always mispronounce, why English has two words for Hose, and German directness compared with English politeness.

An English and PE teacher at a Gymnasium in Bonn. Around exam season he publishes a preparation video and a checklist for the last days, overviews of Abitur topics such as Individual and Society — those in English — and practical help with oral-exam nerves. Most active in the months before the Abitur.

Sebastian, an English teacher since 2012, works through the English Abitur in North Rhine-Westphalia step by step, for both Grundkurs and Leistungskurs: analysing non-fiction, literature and cartoons, summary, comment and mediation, with practice on real Abitur tasks. New lessons were arriving weekly in September 2026. Outside NRW, check your own state's task types first.

The official channel of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Its sample speaking tests for B2 First and C1 Advanced show real candidates doing the exam — the clearest way to see what the examiners expect.

Free preparation for B2 First and C1 Advanced: speaking, writing and reading strategy, plus a steady stream of vocabulary lessons on moving from B2 language to C1 language.

The test owners' own channel, with tutorials on how the test works — including the computer-delivered version — alongside research videos you can skip.

Lessons, practice questions and real student answers for the TOEFL iBT. The test changed format on January 21, 2026, with a new 1–6 score scale, so study only from TOEFL videos made for the new test; TST Prep's recent lessons are.

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A small team teaching English in Hannover, Berlin and online. Its short daily podcast episodes act out workplace situations at B2 or C1 — questioning a status update, reporting a budget overrun, saving a video call — in English, with German descriptions and a linked transcript, vocabulary list, comprehension check and free worksheet. On an English-language YouTube it appears as Simmonds online English lessons.

A Business English channel for German professionals, with topics from sales, marketing and purchasing: brand management, mergers and acquisitions, tendering and due diligence, negotiating a pay rise. The lessons themselves are in English, pitched at intermediate level and above, and recent uploads are mostly short vocabulary clips.

Annemarie's channel on confident, professional speaking. Recent lessons take on the German speaker's classic problem directly: how to be direct in English, and where the line runs between assertive and aggressive.

A native English teacher who spent more than 30 years in business before teaching online. Weekly lessons on the expressions professionals need — for making decisions, or for the moment you forget a word in the middle of a meeting.

From Gift and bekommen to Handy and Beamer — the look-alike words that trip up German speakers, with wrong-versus-right sentences.

The tense pair German speakers mix up most, explained with one clear rule — plus since and for.

Drill w against v, th against s, and voiced endings like dog against dock — out loud, in pairs.

Fifteen channels chosen for the gap between understanding a lesson and following real English.

The six tense contrasts German speakers actually get wrong, with answers and a reason for each.

Made for learners but taught entirely in English, with subtitles, short lessons and live classes. The gentlest bridge from German-medium content.

Clear British English for intermediate and advanced learners, including lessons on thinking in English instead of translating in your head — the habit German speakers most need.

Detailed American pronunciation: mouth positions, linking and reductions. Useful for the vowel and th sounds German does not have.

Whiteboard lessons in English, with recent ones aimed squarely at intermediate learners: understanding fast English without catching every word, and getting the words out when you freeze.

Real dialogue from films and series, broken down scene by scene. A natural next step if you already watch series in English.

Short animated lessons on science and history in clear, natural English. It does not teach English at all, which is the point: it is content, not a lesson.

Use FlexiLingo on the native English videos you would struggle to follow alone — the ones that actually build listening — so you can leave learner channels sooner.

Tap any word in the subtitles to see its meaning and hear it pronounced, including the endings that disappear at full speed.

Every word you save keeps the sentence it came from, so you learn how the word is really used — which is how you avoid the false friends a bare word list lets through.

Saved words come back for review at the right time, so a word you met once in a video becomes a word you actually own.