Learn German: Die Bienenretter
***Developed for and with children***
***Based on the award-winning children's game Squirrel & Bär***
The bees are sick. Eichhörnchen and Bär (squirrel and bear) must rescue them, but the medicinal plant they need to do that is awfully far away. Also, a lynx is guarding the plant. Outside the forest, all the animals speak German. Help Eichhörnchen and Bär rescue the bees and learn German along the way.
1 real adventure, 10 forest inhabitants, 22 chapters and a vocabulary of over 900 words
Die Bieneretter:
* Is a real adventure game
* Are composed of a bear, a squirrel and eight other animals
* Offers more than six hours of fun
* Includes 22 re-playable chapters
* Provides two difficulty levels
* Presents more than 300 words for an active and 600 for a passive vocabulary
* Is based on the European Framework A1 for language teachers (primary school)
* Includes professional voice recordings with native speakers
* Operates entirely without texts and with intuitive control
* Entertains with fully animated characters
Die Bienenretter is:
* Ad-free and without in-app purchases
* Designed for and with children
* A first, playful interaction with the German language
* Educational and made with love and care
Let's go!
Start right away and learn German - even without previous language skills.
Come along! Meet the stork, the confused stag and the rats. Collect nuts and honey. Feed the badger; help the beaver clean up. Find the way out of the city and head into the snowy mountains.
Have fun!
Die Bienenretter is a Deutsche Welle offering based on the game Squirrel & Bär designed by the Cologne-based game studio The Good Evil GmbH (www.thegoodevil.com). The game is endorsed by the German Youth Institute.
- The German Developer Award 2014 for "Best Children's Game"
- The German children's software prize TOMMI 2014 in the category "Preschool & Kindergarten"
- The educational interactive award PAEDI 2014 for "Best Apps for Kids"
- The Giga-Maus 2014 Award for "Best Foreign Language Tutorial"
*Nominated for the German Computer Game Prize 2015 in the category "Best Children's Game"
We appreciate all mails and information whenever something goes wrong in the forest: [email protected]
Visit us at:
dw.com/learngerman/bienenrette
Category : Educational
Reviews (13)
The English is incorrect in this game. For example, a character says, "It starts to get cold." This is a German construction. In English, it should be "It is getting cold." There are several examples of errors like this throughout.
The idea of coming up with an interactive way of learning a foreign language is really nice, but there is no foreign language; all of the dialogues are in English.
Nice work. It takes a bit of time to start with the Deutsch. Please be patient initially <3 Loved it.
Cute for young kids. its too easy though for even A1 level German learners and mostly in English.
dialogs are all in english. thought this was going to teach german. disappointed
Not for learning german.. Boring with english words
doesn't work on android 10
Is in interesting
This is a lovely game for people who are beginners at German and want alternative ways of learning the language. :) This is for me speaking as an adult with learning the language as the first priority. It gives you context, in contrast to other language-learning apps, which I find focus more on memorization. The graphics are clean and cute, and the world of Die Bienenretter has a lot to interact with. The controls were a little fidgety. I managed to get stuck on one level because I couldn't get either Bär or Einhörnchen out from behind an interactable. I think the game was too short! The "final boss" asks us to figure out words that weren't introduced elsewhere in the game. I wouldn't have minded a few more chapters to cover those words. Overall, great! :) Kudos to the developers and designers for making a cute, helpful language-learning game.
Soooo slow. My 7y old seemed to like it ok, but was bored at the end, too. Plus: why teach the kids to kick over trash cans when they're in your way? Uncool! And the birds are apparently flying backwards! :o
Please disable the home button, my kids keep bumping it, which restarts the level
I am probably doing something wrong. Why is my game in English? I downloaded for learning German but till now, all the words are in English. Is this normal? What to do I do?? Help!!
Nice story of forest animals cooperating to find food and health. Games to play along the way. Learning English, rather than German!