Ancient Language
Middle High German
Companion: Hanna
"Hanna does not believe in approximation. She has traced German backward through the Nibelungenlied, through Charlemagne's scribes, to the reconstructed mother tongue that also gave the world English, Dutch, and the Norse languages."
The Chain
Middle High German sits in a language chain — learners arrive from German and can continue into Old High German.
What You'll Learn
5
story arcs
1,623
vocabulary entries
A1–C2
CEFR levels
Story Arcs
Das Nibelungenlied — The German Iliad
Walther von der Vogelweide — Minnegesang
Das Heilige Römische Reich — The German Language and Its Impossible Unity
Start Learning Middle High German
Begin with Hanna →Free to start · No streak pressure · Story-first learning