* sorted by popularity as of December 2025

• Easy German (2.82M subscribers and 1.5K videos) offers great stuff for German learners of all skill levels, from beginners to fairly advanced speakers as well as for people who just want to brush up on their German or learn some basic German phrases. You can even pick up some Swiss German or a dialect from their video lessons, if you wish so. Moreover, included are playlists with German music and German documentaries to boost your vocabulary. Altogether there are hundreds of practical videos discussing various topics where you can listen to real people in the street answering all sorts of unexpected questions. To make sure you do not overlook anything, it is recommended to also check out the playlist “Learn German from the streets” created by their “sister” channel Easy Languages, containing ca 2.7K videos.
• Learn German (1.97M subscribers) is a large German-teaching channel containing around 1.4K videos on a great variety of subjects for all German-proficiency levels. This channel is suitable also for absolute beginners. Free worksheets, transcripts and podcasts are available for download for all lessons.
• Deutsch lernen mit der DW (1.48M subscribers and 3.3K videos) has something for every skill level and taste. Beginners (levels A1-B1) can accompany Harry Walkott on his adventurous journey through Germany. Those who are on the level A2 can follow Nina and David in the series named Das Deutschlandlabor as they travel around Germany and help viewers answer common questions about the German way of life (this course was prepared in cooperation with Goethe Institute where under the above link you can also find worksheets and transcripts from these lessons). Intermediate learners of German language (B1/B2) can watch 99 series of “Jojo sucht das Glück” (Jojo seeks happiness) about a young Brazilian lady Jojo who came to study in Germany. In addition to these series, there are other entertaining video courses for all sorts of interests and in different languages available on this channel but finding them may sometimes be a challenge. The course-related materials such as audios, podcasts and exercise books can be downloaded directly from DW website.
• Learn German with Anja (1.23M subscribers and 635 videos) is an entertaining and unconventional way of learning German with a German-native host Anja. Although the course is mainly focused on developing basic language skills, there are also lessons for intermediate students of up to the level B1. This fast growing educational youtube channel is on its way to soon reach the 1M subscriber mark.
• Learn German with GermanPod101.com is, like most other channels on this list, promoting its own commercial teaching programme but you get a lot of it for free at YouTube (i.e., 1.4K videos). Therefore, the channel is extremely popular, currently having 880K subscribers. This course is particularly suitable for beginners.
• Lingoni German (847K subscribers, formerly known as German with Jenny) is presented by another lovely German lady who offers free German lessons for beginners and intermediate learners on youtube. The video sound is excellent, so there is hardly a more suitable German course on youtube for practicing listening comprehension. The channel contains about 1.3K video lessons from levels A1 to B2. Once you have completed the whole course you should also know a lot about German lifestyle and culture.
• Deutsch verstehen (665K subscribers) is focusing mainly on helping you understand simple German language used in common day-to-day situations. At the moment there are 766 cartoon videos and films available where you can follow the leading character Mia coping with her daily struggles. It is suggested that you practice German by listening to and repeating German phrases heard in videos so as to learn how to use them in dialogues. Suitable for levels A1-C1. The language of this channel is exclusively German but there are English subtitles in most of the videos.
• Your German Teacher (632K subscribers) is a German-learning channel hosted by two German native-speaking language teachers Luzi and Johannes. The lessons are designed for German speakers at proficiency levels of A1-B2. Most of the 263 videos on this channel are focusing on teaching you grammar, correct use of some frequently misused words and developing vocabulary.
• Get Germanized (464K subscribers and 1.3K videos) – if you are bored of school German lessons and textbooks learn about Germany, German people and their language through the eyes of a real German and get germanised. This entertaining channel has all it takes to teach you proper German and do it in an unconventional and relaxed way. It is particularly good at teaching vocabulary that you will not find in regular textbooks. German lifestyle and culture are also discussed there.
• Lingster Academy (427K subscribers) presents 525 video lessons hosted by Julia, a university lecturer with a master’s degree in German as a foreign language. The lessons are aimed at different levels of German speakers (A1-C1) and focus mainly on developing vocabulary and teaching grammar and writing skills to get you ready for German language proficiency exams.
• Deutsch mit Marija (347K subscribers) is presented by a polyglot who is learning her eighth language. You can choose from over 1K videos addressing all aspects of language development designed for proficiency levels of B1-C2. There are also videos where she is discussing various general topics that interest her audience or provides her own learning tips on how to make most of one’s time when learning a foreign language. All lessons and all explanations are in German and made so that everyone on a level B1 and higher should be able to easily understand them.
• Learn German with Herr Antrim (290K subscribers and 963 videos) is a channel for beginners and intermediate German speakers. There is a large section of videos explaining different aspects of German grammar, all from a perspective of American German language teacher. This channel also contains valuable German learning tips, vocabulary-building videos and a collection of videos from other German teaching channels on youtube.
• Deutsch fuer Euch (268K subscribers and 289 videos) is a fun way of learning German with Katja. This channel is suitable for beginners who have never had any German lessons before as well as for advanced students of German up to the level C2. There are playlists dedicated to pronunciation, grammar, spelling, vocabulary training and much more. Katja is a native German and will also teach you a little bit about German people and their culture.
• 24h Deutsch (191K subscribers) was prepared in cooperation with the Goethe Institute. It contains 236 videos on different everyday topics for beginners as well as for more advances students of German. The main focus of the channel is on teaching grammar and vocabulary but it also helps you train listening comprehension and provides useful tips for living in Germany.
• Ashkan’s German Lessons in Farsi (189K subscribers) is an awesome youtube channel for speakers of Farsi with ca 1.4K video lessons for beginners and intermediate students of German language given by a Farsi (Persian) native speaker.
• German with Laura (174K subscribers and 45 videos) is a channel that mainly focuses on explaining German grammar. Besides that the host Laura also shares valuable tips for improving learning efficiency and discusses the most common German idioms.
• Free German Lessons (159K subscribers and 269 videos) contains video lessons for beginners as well as for intermediate students of German. The focus is on decoding the complexities of German grammar. Although explanations in most of the video lessons are provided only in German, the language is clear and texts and pictures make everything easy to understand. Just browse through different playlists to find lessons that suit you best.
• Super German (157K subscribers) is a collection of 244 animated videos that use dialogues and stories to help German learners expand vocabulary, learn grammar and improve German comprehension and pronunciation. There are also special podcasts covering a broad range of topics of general interest as well as videos containing hours of important phrases for beginners to learn in sleep. Nonetheless, the majority of videos are for German speakers at levels B1 and B2. All videos are in German but they are subtitled and the sound is very clear for easy comprehension.
• Deutsch mit Hassan Ismaeil (130K subscribers and 1.8K videos) is a German-teaching platform in Arabic. It offers German lessons and examples of German language tests to students whose native language is Arabic.
• Learn German with Kedar Jadhav (112K subscribers) is a channel presented by Kedar Jadhav, a design engineer from Munich, who is passionate about teaching German as a foreign language. His German-teaching channel is special in that some of his 580 videos are in Hindi whereas the rest are in Marathi. This should help Hindi and Marathi speakers learn German faster than learning it in English. Moreover, there are videos that help his fellow Indians get ready for German language exams. Besides language lessons he also provides valuable advice on various practical Germany-related topics such as immigration issues for those who would like to study or work in Germany.