Async Precision: 5 German Phrases for Better Code Reviews
Reviewing code in a second language is hard. You don’t want to sound aggressive, but you need to…
Private 1:1 sessions built around the German you use at work, not a generic language course. You practice your own messages and the conversations you deal with every week.
There is a problem with the server. We are working on it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Betroffen: [Service X]. Ursache wird untersucht (erste Hypothese: DB-Timeout). Nächstes Update in 30 Min. Zuständig: [Name].
We talk through your situation: your role, your team, what is blocking you in German right now. I tell you honestly whether I can help and what that would look like. No sales pitch.
Choose a time that works for you, straight from the calendar. No back and forth email.
Answer three quick questions when you book: your role, your setup, and your biggest German blocker right now.
Twenty minutes. You explain the situation, I ask a few questions, we see if it makes sense to work together.
I read your answers before we meet, so we never start cold.
Every session is about your specific situation, not generic business German.
I help get your Lebenslauf and Anschreiben into clear, natural, professional German, so the wording reads the way German recruiters are used to. The German on the page, not career advice.
See posts in this mode →You write tickets in English but escalations go to a German stakeholder. Practice the switch and the register.
See posts in this mode →Standups, post-mortems, Slack threads, retros. Full immersion in the situations you are already in.
See posts in this mode →Reusable vocabulary for your real tickets, updates and messages, organised by situation.
Incident updates, handover notes, status messages. Clear wording, clear ownership, clean ETA format.
You practise, I correct as we go. Not grading, just what lands and what sounds off.
After each session: a summary of what came up, the corrections, and what to work on next.
All sessions are 1:1, 60 minutes, and built around your real situations.
For DevOps, QA, Support, Sysadmins and Solution Architects.
For anyone whose written German needs a quick fix.
For anyone who wants regular speaking practice with the grammar to back it up.
Introductory pricing, first 5 clients. Sessions conducted in English or Polish.
We talk for twenty minutes about your role, your situation and what is blocking you. I read your context before we meet.
We practise your real situations. I take the other side, a stakeholder or a teammate, you respond, and I correct as we go.
You leave with a phrase bank update, templates for your situation, and session notes you can use that same day.
There is a problem with the server. We are working on it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Betroffen: [Service X]. Ursache wird untersucht (erste Hypothese: DB-Timeout). Nächstes Update in 30 Min. Zuständig: [Name].
The button does not work sometimes. Maybe a cache issue. Please fix.
Reproduzierbar bei: [Schritte]. Erwartet: [X]. Aktuell: [Y]. Mögliche Ursache: Cache-Invalidierung. Priorität: Mittel.
All examples are anonymised, taken from real session work.
Each post covers one work scenario, with vocabulary and templates for all three modes.
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No. There are no levels and no textbook. We work on the German you actually use at work, so you can already speak some German and want it to sound right in real situations.
Roughly B1 and up works best, enough to hold a basic conversation. If you are not sure, book the free call and we will figure it out together.
We practise in German, but I explain in English or Polish whenever something needs to be clear. You are never left guessing.
Yes. I help get your Lebenslauf and Anschreiben into clear, natural, professional German. That is the language on the page, not career or interview coaching.
Book the free 20 minute call. We talk through your situation and I tell you honestly whether I can help.
Fill this in and I will reply within 48 hours with whether I can help and what a first session would look like.