The goal of the self-teaching guide is to teach how to have a conversation (ask questions and understand the interlocutor) within the topics of everyday communication. It consists of an introductory course with guidelines for pronunciation; a main course covering 12 thematic lessons; and includes keys to exercises. The application contains conversational phrases, dialogues, and reading texts, a brief grammatical reference, German-Russian and Russian-German dictionaries. The electronic application includes an audio guide. Exercises, dialogic and monologic texts of the audio guide are read by native speakers. For all those who wish to study the German language. It can be used in foreign language courses and in preparation for admission to universities.