Listvin Lexik

@ListvinLexikBot is the current vocabulary trainer from Denis Listvin's German school, replacing an earlier bot (DeutschEffekt Lexik) that the author retired in its favor. The idea is simple: instead of a generic word list, the bot organizes German vocabulary into 11 broad topics split into 33 narrower subtopics, so you can pick something concrete — say, food or travel — rather than grinding through an alphabetical deck.

Inside a topic you choose one of five exercise types. The dictionary lets you read each word, hear it and see a picture of it. Two exercises test translation both ways: a German word with four Russian options, or a picture and a Russian word with four German options. «Listen and choose» asks you to recognise the German word by ear, and «Which gender?» shows a noun without its article and three buttons — der, die, das. After a translation answer the bot shows and plays the correct word again, so the same word gets tested from several angles instead of one flashcard.

There's no separate app to install and no price mentioned anywhere: you start the bot, choose a topic, and the exercises begin. The school describes the content as basic vocabulary with only the simplest, most useful exercises, and points out that, unlike a phone app, the bot works on any device with Telegram — phone, tablet or computer.

It's a narrow tool by design — it drills words and grammar-adjacent facts (gender, mainly), not full conversations or grammar explanations — so it works best alongside a course or textbook rather than as a standalone way to learn German from zero.