Estudio alemán.

Because Spanish often drops subject pronouns when the verb already makes the subject clear.

• estudio = I study
• so yo estudio and estudio both mean I study

In this sentence, yo is unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast, such as:

• Yo estudio alemán, pero ella estudia francés.
  (I study German, but she studies French.)

Here, estudio is the first person singular present tense of the verb estudiar.

So:

• estudiar = to study
• estudio = I study

It can also be a noun in other contexts, where estudio means study or studio, but in Estudio alemán, it is clearly the verb.

Because when you talk about studying a school subject or language, Spanish usually does not use an article.

So:

• Estudio alemán. = I study German.
• Estudio historia. = I study history.
• Estudio matemáticas. = I study maths.

Using el here would usually sound wrong for this meaning.

In this sentence, alemán is functioning as a noun, meaning the German language.

The word alemán can be:

• an adjective: un libro alemán = a German book
• a noun for a person: un alemán = a German man
• a noun for the language: estudio alemán = I study German

So here it means German as a language, not German as an adjective describing something.

The accent mark shows where the stress goes: a-le-MÁN.

Without the accent, Spanish spelling rules would suggest a different stress pattern. The written accent tells you the final syllable is stressed.

This is important because stress matters in Spanish pronunciation and spelling.

In Spanish, names of languages are normally written in lowercase.

So Spanish writes:

• alemán
• español
• inglés
• francés

This is different from English, where German, Spanish, and English are capitalized.

Not necessarily. The Spanish present tense is quite flexible.

Estudio alemán can mean:

• I study German (general habit)
• I am studying German (current ongoing situation, in a broad sense)

If you want to stress that the action is happening right now, Spanish can also use:

• Estoy estudiando alemán. = I am studying German.

So the simple present often covers both ideas depending on context.

Yes. A woman would say exactly the same thing: Estudio alemán.

The verb form estudio does not change for the speaker’s gender, and alemán here refers to the language, so it also stays the same.

Yes, but Estudio alemán is the most neutral and natural order.

You could say:

• Yo estudio alemán. — adds the pronoun for emphasis
• Alemán estudio. — possible in special contexts, but unusual and marked

Spanish word order is more flexible than English, but the normal pattern here is:

• verb + object
• Estudio alemán.

A helpful approximation is:

• es-TOO-dyo a-leh-MAHN

A few notes:

• estudio has the stress on tu: es-TU-dio
• alemán has the stress on the last syllable: a-le-MÁN
• the j sound from English does not appear here
• the d in estudio is softer than in English

If you want a more Spain-focused approximation:

• ehs-TOO-dyoh ah-leh-MAHN