I started studying for the German citizenship test in 2018. I was so excited to learn more about Germany.
I quickly realized that the test included German words that I had never heard of before. So, I asked Yvonne (my German wife and co-founder of Simple Germany) to help me out.
Together we went through all the questions and we translated them one by one. Other friends that were going to apply for their German citizenship during this time also translated the questions on their own.
Fast-forward to 2024. Germany has finally passed the dual citizenship law.
The demand to become a German citizenship has skyrocketed.
Out of curiosity, I went online to check what tools and services were available to help foreigners study for this test.
To my surprise, no one had translated the questions into another language!
Maybe because of AI, I thought. I fed the questions to ChatGPT and the majority of questions were translated well enough.
However, there were a few that did not make any sense!
So, Yvonne and I decided to fix that. Yvonne spent a few days going over each question and making sure that the translation was correct.
She even added some explanations to some topics and terms that were super confusing to me.
Think of this product as having a kind German friend by your side, helping you understand the questions in English.
I cannot share Yvonne with you. But I can share these files.