Your German roadmap to B1, built and adjusted by AI
The AI lays out a week-by-week path from where you are to your goal, then re-paces it as it learns how you actually study. You always know the next step, and how far is left.
How long will your roadmap take?
Based on the Goethe-Institut's guided-study estimate. An estimate, not a guarantee — your pace depends on prior experience, exposure, and consistency.
The Goethe-Institut estimates roughly 80–200 teaching units to reach A1, 200–350 for A2, and 350–650 for B1 (cumulative from zero). A teaching unit is 45 minutes, so B1 works out to about 260–490 clock hours.
We divide that clock-hour range by your weekly hours and convert weeks to months (4.33 weeks/month). It is an estimate — prior experience, exposure, and consistency move it.
The realistic working-learner pace. Enough time to cover grammar, vocabulary, and listening each week without crowding out the rest of your life. Most people who pass B1 studied at roughly this intensity.
Not sure what level you're starting from?
Take the free level testThis is the honest number your roadmap is built around. For the full breakdown of CEFR hours, retention, and real learner patterns, see how long it takes to reach B1.
It starts from your goal, not lesson one
A generic course outline is the same for everyone and starts at the beginning, whether or not that fits you. A roadmap starts from where you are and where you are going.
You give the AI your current level, the level you want, and a date if you have one, like a Goethe B1 exam. It works back from that date across the hours B1 honestly takes and lays out a sequence of weeks, then pulls your next lessons and drills into each one. The whole path from A1 to B1 is sequenced for you.
It adjusts to how you actually do
Most plans are right for exactly one day, the day you make them. This one is not fixed. The AI watches how you are really doing, the lessons you finish, the drills you keep missing, the weeks that slip, and re-paces the roadmap from where you actually are.
Fall behind for a month and it stretches the timeline honestly instead of pretending. Race ahead and it pulls your goal closer. The point is not a plan that looks good on day one. It is a roadmap that still matches reality in week ten.
Steer your roadmap from Claude or ChatGPT
Your roadmap opens up to your own AI. Connect an assistant like Claude or ChatGPT to your account over MCP, and it can read your roadmap and reshape it in plain language. Move your exam date, add focus on the dative case, or lighten a busy stretch, and it writes the change straight into your roadmap and the weekly plan underneath it.
The roadmap sets the direction; your weekly study plan fills in the daily tasks. Together they take you from your first words to the exam.