For doctors preparing for the Fachsprachprüfung
Train for the three parts of the Fachsprachprüfung.
Lingua Ace trains what the exam asks for: the conversation with a patient, the doctor's report and the handover to a colleague. For each of the three parts the app shows how far along you are, before you register for the exam.
Lingua Ace is a learning app: no certificate, no pass guarantee.
Where preparation gets stuck
Every failed attempt costs
Whoever fails pays the fee again and waits for the next date. The whole exam is repeated, not just the part that fell short.
Talking to patients in plain words
Your training gave you the technical term. With a patient you need the everyday word: "Pankreas" becomes "Bauchspeicheldrüse", "Hypertonie" becomes "hoher Blutdruck".
The report under time pressure
In the exam you write the report on the case you have just taken, and time is short.
Little chance to speak
A course gives each person a few minutes of speaking. Next to shifts and family there is hardly room to practise a history or an informed-consent talk out loud.
What Lingua Ace does about it
Measured skill by skill
Reading, listening, writing, speaking, vocabulary and grammar are each estimated on the CEFR scale, with steps within a level. The estimates come from your answers while practising.
Medical language
Taking a history, informed consent, presenting a case, the discharge letter: vocabulary and situations from hospital work, with the technical term and the word a patient understands.
Readiness per exam part
In exam mode the app shows for each of the three parts how far along you are.
Conversation practice on the phone
You practise conversations with an AI partner, out loud and on your phone. Short sessions fit between two shifts.
- ReadingB2
- ListeningB2
- SpeakingB1
- WritingB1
- VocabularyB2
- GrammarB1
Sample view with made-up values. This is how the app shows you your level per skill.
View a sample recordHow the Fachsprachprüfung is built
You take the Fachsprachprüfung with the licensing authority or the medical chamber it appoints. It tests medical German at level C1 in three situations from a doctor's day. Medical knowledge itself is not tested in the Fachsprachprüfung. Whoever fails repeats the whole exam.
Three parts of 20 minutes each
- Doctor–patient conversation20 minutes
- Documentation (doctor's report)20 minutes
- Doctor–doctor conversation20 minutes
Each chamber sets its own fee, for example €595 in Lower Saxony and €430 at the Ärztekammer Nordrhein.
Lingua Ace is independent of the medical chambers and licensing authorities and is not an official preparation course.
How to start
For doctors who learn on their own. Starting is free.
Register
Create an account with your email address and a password. Nothing has to be installed from an app store.
Choose your goal
Choose the goal "Medical licence in Germany". The app then plans your practice for the Fachsprachprüfung.
Placement
A placement test shows where you start in each skill.
Practise daily
The app plans each day what comes next and shows how far along you are in each exam part.
For hospitals: how a pilot works
Are you preparing several doctors for the Fachsprachprüfung? A pilot shows with your own people whether Lingua Ace suits your hospital.
Conversation
We talk about who will learn, which level is the goal and by when.
Setup
You create the team and invite your doctors by email. Each person starts with a placement test.
8 weeks of use
Your doctors practise alongside their shifts, on the phone or on a computer.
Review
We go through the anonymous team report together: activity and levels across the team, no individual results.
Prices
On your own you learn with the free plan or with Pro. Hospitals get a team plan.
For doctors
Start for free. Pro gives you more speaking time each day.
Pro
€17.99 per month
or €129.99 a year — €10.83 a month
All plans on the pricing pageFor hospitals
We agree the details of the pilot in the first conversation.
Business Team
from €99.00
per month plus VAT, 5 seats included
Each further seat: €19.00 per month plus VAT.
All plans on the pricing pageWhat Lingua Ace is not
- No certificate and no pass guarantee. You take the exam with the medical chamber or the authority responsible for you.
- Independent of the medical chambers and licensing authorities.
- No replacement for medical training or supervision on the ward.
This record states what this learning app has measured from the learner's own answers. It follows the CEFR scale, but it is an estimate produced by software: it is not a certificate, it is not an examination, and it is not equivalent to telc, Goethe, Cambridge, IELTS or DELE.
Questions
Who sees my results?
Only you. If you learn in a team set up by your hospital, the hospital sees a team report with totals across the whole team, and only once the team has 5 members. Individual results, answers and recordings are seen only by the learner.
Which devices are needed?
A smartphone or a computer with a current browser. Nothing has to be installed from an app store. Speaking needs a microphone; phones have one built in.
In which language are the instructions?
The app and its instructions are available in English or German. What you practise is German.
Which exam does Lingua Ace prepare for?
The Fachsprachprüfung for doctors, taken with the licensing authority or the medical chamber it appoints. Its structure is the same in all federal states, following the key points of the conference of health ministers (GMK). Fees and scoring differ from chamber to chamber.
What happens to the details in the form?
We use them only to answer your request and delete them after 12 months. Details are in the privacy policy.
Request a pilot for your hospital
For hospitals and their operators. We will get in touch personally. Fields without a note are required.
Start your preparation
Register, choose the goal "Medical licence in Germany", take the placement test. Hospitals request a pilot further up.