You can study German for months and still freeze when it's time to talk. Parlita fixes that by making you speak from the first session: real conversations with an AI partner, living stories you act inside, and the words you stumble on woven into spaced repetition so they stick.
What learning German is actually like
German front-loads its grammar and then gets easier, which is the reverse of most languages. The cases are the wall. Every noun has a gender, that gender changes shape depending on what the noun is doing in the sentence, and for the first month or two you will get it wrong constantly and be understood anyway, which is the part nobody tells you.
What people underestimate is how much German they already own. Wasser is water and Haus is house, and that pattern runs a long way, because English and German separated late enough that most of the everyday words still rhyme. Even the famously enormous compound words are short words glued together, so you can pull them apart and guess your way through. One warning. Gift means poison.