German Story Generator for Learners
Welcome to my story generator for German learners.
Pick a genre, your level, enter some keywords or idea and tory as get story for your reading and listening practice.
You can download the story as pdf and also create an audio version for it.
Clicking on a word gives you its meaning in context (member feature).
Clicking on a word gives you its meaning in context (member feature).
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How difficult should it be?
Sets the vocabulary and sentence complexity. Normal and Complex are members-only levels.
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Let me know in the comments, how you like the tool, and what genre is your favorite. Oh, and if you have other ideas for genres, let me know as well.
Audio Speed
Dark Mode
I don’t know how old the comments below are, but I selected Normal level, Daily Life, and using Chrome today 4.10.26, the generator worked fine. Being able to print a PDF with German and English side-by-side would be nice, but not essential. The story I got was interesting, good “daily life” vocab without being boring. A great tool when I have 15 min to spend on Übung. Merci vielmals.
Hi Emanuel, I see that the story generator now shows the story in German, and if you wish to load the translation it shows this alongside the original text. I use this tool to try to translate from English to German – previously the English version was below the German so it was possible to scroll down to look only at this, but now if I want to translate in that direction I see both languages together. Is there any way that I can see only the English as well as only the German? Thanks.
Hey hey, would a simple button for each be enough that lets you hide it?
Yes I think that would be great. In the meantime I’ve just been copying the English out to a Word document then translating from there before returning to the German text. Hope I’m not breaking any copyright rules!
“Hope I’m not breaking any copyright rules!”
Nope! Ai companies said their training is “research”, so when you do reading comprehension that’s DEFINITELY research too :).
Done!!
You can now blur out English or German or both.
Clicking on a blur in German reveals the sentence. IN English it reveals the word.
English is now also included in the pdf export.
I’ll fix the poor button layout soon, but it works as requested. Viel Spass :)
(and that’s for the suggestion… you’re not going to be the only one who finds this useful, so it’s a great addition. I’m all ears for more.)
Great, thanks Emanuel!
Not working.
I guess it was about getting stuck on the “audio yes, no” portion of the setup. That should work now.
Hi Emmanuel, the AI Story Generator is now really struggling in Chrome as well as MS Edge. I’m really not sure what the problem is, but it is extremely frustrating I’m afraid.
Could you tell me what you mean by “struggling”? It works fine on my devices. Could you try and incognito window and tell me if this works and also what exactly not working looks like? Like… does it NEVER work or just often and so on.
The AI Story Generator isn’t working for me either. I use this a lot as a way of getting English text which I then try to translate into German, so I do miss being able to do that.
Hi Steve, could you tell me what browser you’re using and what you see when you try to use it? It does work for me, so I need a bit of help trouble shooting.
Hi Emanuel, it has worked again since. Also I am now finding problems with various websites on MS Edge (my default browser) so have switched to Chrome – hopefully all will be fine now
Fingers crossed. If not, let me know.
It’s working great in Chrome now Emanuel. Just want to repeat (I have said it before), that this is just such a wonderful tool for us to be able to make use of. I use it to generate stories that I then try to translate from the English into the German, and whilst doing this I invariably come across bits of grammar that I have been trying to learn elsewhere, but which then appear in real context helping to really embed the learning.
Thanks!
This is not working on my laptop. I’ve logged out and back in, but no results. It has been working and not working for the past couple of weeks.
Should be back up.
i’m still amazed by this blog even though i’ve been here for 1.5 – 2 months already. The effort you’ve put into it is gigantic and that is visible my man, so thanks a lot for everything you do for us (and for yourself ig? :D)
Thanks a lot, really nice to hear it’s appreciated like that. It’s the result of years and years of me working on it and I don’t think it has reached its final form just yet :)
It’s nice. But if it’s not very dependable, I don’t know how much time I want to spend……
I miss your folk tale! Last year you had one about young men making pancakes! So delightful! I was really looking forward to more
Oh, the folk tales. It’s actually been almost 10 years that I did those :). Also “das Pfannkuchenbacken” was a VERY old one.
What do you mean by “not dependable”?
Uhhh, didn’t you say it might not be idiomatic? That’s all. Are there more folk tales somewhere?
Ohhh, got it!
So the stories it writes are very reliable by now. The disclaimer was from 2 years ago when the models were a bit more shaky.
You can find the listening comprehension bits here:
https://yourdailygerman.com/german-exercise-2/
Just scroll down a bit to get to the sections :)
Great thanks!!
Ich saß ruhig auf meinem Platz ganz hinten im Klassenraum und hypnotisierte die Uhr. Irgendetwas stimmte nicht. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, was es war, aber schon am frühen Morgen hatte ich ein ungutes Gefühl in der Magengegend. Ich wusste nicht, ob ich mich freuen oder lieber schreiend weglaufen sollte, denn ich konnte mich nicht einmal richtig konzentrieren. Ich konnte noch nicht einmal den Ausführungen meiner Biologielehrerin über die verschiedenen Stadien der Teilung des Zellkerns folgen.
Schließlich wandte ich meinen Blick ab und sah aus dem Fenster …
I joined for one year but am not able to create a story. Help please
Hi, actually what happened was that the result field was hidden from view. Should be fixed now. Let me know please.
whenever I use the story generator, fill in the options, click on create story. I am sent back to the original article with all the options blank. No story- Please advise
I accidentally broke it on Friday. Should be back up now!
BEST THING EVER MADEEEE
I just discovered this and think it’s a brilliant way to practice learning through hearing. I have a question though. Is there a way to get the story in spoken past tense, not written past tense, because I’m going to be speaking and listening to actual people, not exchanging written notes with them. So I want to practice what I’ll be immersed in in everyday life. Is ChatGPT able to do that?
Technically yes, but I’ll have to modify how I prompt it.
Also, whenever you prompt it to create a “story”, there’s a certain probability it’ll throw in preterit because that’s the more likely tense to be seen in such a context. This probability and your telling it to use spoken past instead will kind of fight internally.
Still, I’ll see if I find the time to add a “tense”-selector. I’ve been wanting to do that for examples anyways.
Hi Emanuel, when I try to create audio all I get is an Error message in the Audio player. How to resolve?
Hey Emanuel, this is also fantastic if you want to try translating from English into German. I have a number of dtv zweisprachigbuecher, but the language is often quite outdated. Here it is all just normal daily descriptions, which is just perfect!!
Freut mich :)
Could you advise why “to the big square” is “zum grossen Platz” and not “auf den grossen Platz”? I have been trying to learn all the different to/from words and had understood that Marktplatz, Spielplatz, Wasweissichplatz all used auf?
It’s true that squares and “Plätze” go with “auf”, but that’s more for being there than going there.
For going there, I’d say “zu” is more common. It sees the place as more like a location pin you go to, while “auf” has more focus on actually being “on” the ground there.
God I love the story generator… Brilliant addition
I’m thinking about adding audio to it. Do you think that would be useful?
I think that could help reinforce what one is reading. Good idea!
Hello, I first wanted to try out two posts per week for free and then try subscription when I have more time soon but then 2 posts a week doesn’t work and tell me it reached the limit even if it’s my first opening.
The AI tools do count as posts, maybe that’s why.
Wow! This is so cool! I tried to recreate a fairytale in a humorous context and got Rapunzel as a hat-loving freak! Def better than trying to find short stories online.
Das ist sehr cool!! Viel Spaß!!