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Learn to greet people and say goodbye in German, using formal and informal forms. Practice key phrases like Guten Tag, Guten Morgen, Guten Abend, Gute Nacht, and Auf Wiedersehen.

Practice common German greetings across times of day, including Guten Tag, Guten Morgen, Guten Abend, Gute Nacht, Hallo, Tschüss, Auf Wiedersehen, and Hello in a speaking drill.

Explore the German verb sein (to be), an irregular verb, with ich bin, du bist, er ist, sie ist, es ist, and practice wir sind, ihr seid, sie sind.

Learn the German alphabet and how to spell names, practicing pronunciation and phrases like wie schreibt man Zara and das schreibt man, with speaking drills.

Engage in a German alphabet speaking drill, practicing how to spell letters and words, with examples like Fiona, Zara, and Alex to reinforce spelling.

Learn how to ask how someone is feeling in German, using informal wie geht’s and formal wie geht es Ihnen, and respond with mir geht es gut or schlecht.

Practice saying how you feel in German through speaking drills, using phrases like mir gut, mir nicht gut, and geht es dir.

Learn essential everyday German phrases, including greetings, yes and no, please, and thank you. Practice pronoun forms and phrases like ich verstehe nicht.

Learn everyday German through a speaking drill, practicing self-introductions with names like Zarah and Tom, and phrases for please, thanks, and saying you don’t understand.

Learn German numbers up to 20 with pronunciation tips and speaking practice, starting from numbers up to ten, then forming 11–20 with key exceptions Elf and Zwölf.

Practice German numbers from null to 20 in a speaking drill, reciting numbers such as 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20.

Learn numbers from 1 to 100 in German, forming larger numbers from tens and units, using the back-to-front order, and mastering the ich-like pronunciation through guided drills.

Practice German numbers up to 100 through a speaking drill, building fluency and confidence with number pronunciation.

Learn to ask what's the date today and say the date in German, using days of the week and ordinal forms up to the twentieth.

practice asking and telling dates in german, using today and tomorrow, days of the week, and ordinal dates like erster, zweiter, dritter, zwanzigsten.

Learn to form dates in German by mastering the months, days, and numbers, and practice saying seasons and common date phrases with pronunciation tips.

Practice discussing dates in German through days, months, and seasons in a speaking drill, using phrases like heute ist Montag der Februar and morgen ist Dienstag der Zwanzigsten Juni.

Learn six key German vowel sounds and practice pronunciation through listening and repeating with numbers such as ein, zwei, drei, vier, sieben, fünf, fünfzehn, zwölf.

This lesson explains the gender of nouns in German, dividing nouns into masculine, feminine, and neuter, and shows how der die das and ein eine change with gender and number.

Review unit one by practicing greetings, the verb to be, alphabet, feelings, numbers to 100, dates, vowels, and noun gender through a dialogue with listen and repeat and gap fills.

Learn to ask someone's name and introduce yourself in German, using informal and formal forms. Practice saying your first name and family name with ich heiße and mein name ist.

Practice saying your name in German through a speaking drill, using ich heiße and mein vorname ist, with examples like my name is Zara and my family name is Smith.

Learn to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense with wohnen (to live); remove the final n to form the stem and add standard endings.

Learn how to ask and say ages in German, using wie alt sind Sie and wie alt bist du, and say ich bin 33 Jahre alt.

Practice asking and answering age in German with wie alt bist du and wie alt sind sie, using ich bin 33 jahre alt and similar phrases.

This lesson teaches how to give personal details in German when filling out forms, including gender (männlich or weiblich) and marital status (verheiratet or ledig), with formal and informal usage.

Practices giving personal details in German, focusing on masculine or feminine forms, saying ich bin weiblich or ich bin männlich, and basic family status terminology.

Learn how to ask for and give a telephone number in German, using formal and informal forms, and practice with numbers in two-digit groups.

practice asking for and giving German phone numbers in a speaking drill, and pronounce digits and sequences such as 573 380 19 and 978 4500 2160.

Learn how to ask questions in German using key question words such as was, wer, wie, and wo, with verb-second structure and practice, and a quiz.

Learn to ask and answer where you live in German, using wo wohnen Sie and wohnst du, and say whether you live in a village or a city.

Practice saying where you live in German through speaking drills, using ich wohne in Bremen or Bonn, and learn to ask or share addresses in a village or city.

Learn to name countries in German and say where you come from using aus and kommen, with dialogue and pronunciation practice for USA, Großbritannien, Deutschland, die Schweiz, Indien, and Australien.

Practice saying where you come from in German with a speaking drill using 'ich komme aus' and names like USA, Great Britain, Australia, Ireland, Germany, and Switzerland.

Learn to ask and answer about nationality in German, using formal and informal forms, and gendered noun endings (masculine -er, feminine -in) with example sentences like ich bin amerikaner.

Practice saying your nationality in German through a speaking drill, using 'Was ist deine Nationalität?' and responses like 'Ich bin Amerikaner.'

Learn to say what languages you speak in German, using informal and formal forms, with examples like sprichst du deutsch and sprechen sie deutsch, and practice ich spreche gut deutsch.

Practice saying what language you speak through a speaking drill using phrases like 'do you speak German?', 'I speak German' to build practical language skills.

Explore five pronunciations of the German letter s, from the double-s to s before a vowel, with practice examples for confident pronunciation.

Learn to form larger numbers in German, from hundreds and thousands to millions and milliarden, using einhundert or hundert and eine million, zwei millionen, ein milliard, and zwei milliarden.

Join a German speaking drill on using larger numbers, from einhundert to zwei milliarden, including million pronunciations.

Learn to say when and where you were born in German, including dates and numbers, and practice wo bist du geboren and wo sind sie geboren.

Learn to say when and where you were born in German through a speaking drill, using ich bin am date geboren and ich bin in England, Deutschland, America geboren.

Practice saying your name, age, where you live and come from, nationality, and languages you speak using the verb sein and regular present tense verbs.

Review unit two with a model dialogue that reinforces asking and answering about gender, marital status, birthplace, birth date, and address in German.

Learn German family members—from mother, sister, wife, and daughter to father, brother, husband, and son, and extended relatives like grandmother and grandfather, with speaking drills to practice pronunciation.

Practice German family vocabulary through a speaking drill, using phrases for my mother, my sister, my wife, my son, my grandfather, my grandmother, and other relatives, focusing on possessive forms.

Practice talking about the family make-up with a speaking drill that covers how many people are in your family and common variations.

Master six key German vowel sounds through guided listen-and-repeat practice, using words for family members to reinforce each sound and improve overall pronunciation.

Learn to express my, your, his, and her in German, using gender and plural forms, the accusative case, and practice phrases for family words like Vater, Mutter, Schwestern.

Learn to ask and tell family members' names and ages in German, using 'heißen', 'wie alt ist', and 'jahre alt' in guided dialogues and speaking practice.

Practice talking about family members and ages with a speaking drill, using names like Maxine and Tom and questions such as how old is she.

Learn to talk about birthdays in German by asking when someone's birthday is in formal and informal forms. Say today is my birthday and learn to wish happy birthday.

Practice talking about birthdays in German, asking and answering 'wann hast du geburtstag' and 'ich habe heute geburtstag', and using greetings like 'herzlichen glückwunsch, alles gute zum geburtstag'.

Learn how to use haben, the irregular German verb for have, including ich habe, du hast, er/sie/es hat, wir haben, ihr habt, sie haben, and Sie haben, with example sentences.

Learn German animal names and masculine, feminine, and neuter noun genders, with pronunciation notes and listen and repeat practice, preparing you for a speaking drill in the next lesson.

Engage in a speaking drill on animal vocabulary in German, featuring deer, bird, bear, snake, mouse, and rabbit, with related phrases from the caption.

Learn how to form plural nouns in German, including adding e for consonants, keeping n or r endings unchanged, and using umlaut for bruder to brüder and schwester to schwestern.

Learn how to say what animals you have in German, ask about pets, and use ich habe with gender-specific articles (einen, eine, ein) and plural forms, plus keine for none.

Practice German phrases for describing your pets, including ich habe einen hund, eine katze, ein kaninchen, und ich habe keine haustiere.

Explore the nominative and accusative German cases, identify the subject and direct object, and show how masculine articles change in the accusative with examples and practice.

Learn common German adjectives to describe people, including appearance such as groß, klein, schlank, and fat, age alt and jung, and character freundlich, nett, intelligent, with dialogue practice.

Master using adjectives to describe people in German through a speaking drill, practicing phrases like ich bin groß, klein, schlank, jung, alt, freundlich, fleißig, and intelligent or unintelligent.

Describe friends and family in German using adjectives and intensifiers. Learn descriptors laut, kreativ, lustig, and fleißig with phrases wie sie ist sehr laut und Tom ist ein bisschen freundlich.

Describe friends and family using adjectives such as creative, funny, loud, diligent, and friendly. Practice speaking with examples like Tom is a bit friendly and she is not calm.

Master final consonant pronunciation in German, with g as ch, v as f, t as a hard t, and b as p, using examples like fleissig, lustig, gelb, intelligent.

Learn to say what color things are in German and ask what color something is, using phrases like welche farbe hat dein auto and words such as rot and blau.

Practice saying what color things are in German with a speaking drill. Explore colors such as gelb, rosa, orange, grün, blau, and schwarz through sentences like mein auto ist blau.

Describe eyes and hair in German with er hat or sie hat, a color before the noun, and use aussehen in questions like wie siehst du aus.

Practice describing eyes and hair in German through speaking drills, using phrases for blue, brown, and green eyes and blonde or brown hair.

Review unit three covers family members, possessives my, your, his and her, birthdays, animals, plural forms, nominative and accusative, adjectives, colors, and describing hair and eyes, with a model dialogue.

Review unit three using a model dialogue about siblings, birthdays, eye and hair color, and pets, then practice speaking to reinforce everyday German descriptions.

Learn to say where you live in German and to ask others in formal or informal forms. Describe your home with adjectives such as klein, alt, gross, neu, and modern.

Learn German phrases for saying where you live, describing houses and apartments, and asking about others' homes.

Build confidence in German by naming rooms in the house, practicing masculine, feminine, and neuter compound nouns like der garten, die küche, das schlafzimmer, and das badezimmer.

Master German room vocabulary with a speaking drill on house spaces, including kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedroom, garage, terrace, garden, balcony, and winter garden.

Learn to describe your home by asking how many rooms the wohnung or haus has, and list rooms like wohnzimmer, küche, schlafzimmer, and badezimmer.

Practice describing your home by counting how many rooms and naming spaces like the living room, kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, and a winter garden in a speaking drill.

Learn to describe your home’s size in square meters and ask how big the apartment is, using wie groß and quadratmeter, plus how long you’ve lived there with seit.

Practice describing your home in German by asking and answering how large the house or apartment is, using square meters and duration phrases from the speaking drill.

Learn to ask about your favorite room in German using liebling with zimmer, and describe it with size, comfort, and colors like gelb and orange.

Explore a speaking drill that helps learners describe their favourite room, featuring the living room, bedroom, and kitchen, and compare colors of walls and curtains.

Master key German consonants at the start of words through listen-and-repeat practice, learning zed as ts, w as v, v as f, hard k, and the two-part shoe sound.

Learn to ask what's in the living room and dining room in German and describe furniture using accusative forms like sofa, tisch, fernseher.

Practice asking and answering what is in the living room and in the room, identifying a sofa, table, television, chair, and carpet through speaking drills.

Learn to ask what's in the bedroom and bathroom in German, and name items like commode, bet, kleider schrank, badewanne, douche, and toilette using im schlafe zimmer and im badezimmer.

Practice speaking German by identifying items in the bedroom and bathroom, such as bed, commode, kleider schrank, badewanne, douche, and toilette.

Learn how to ask what's in the kitchen and identify common kitchen appliances and furniture. Practice listening and repeating phrases, including fridge, cooker, sink, washing machine, and dishwasher.

Practice German speaking by naming kitchen items such as the refrigerator (Kühlschrank), stove (Herd), sink (Spüle), dishwasher (Spülmaschine), and washing machine (Waschmaschine).

Learn the dative case, its definite and indefinite articles, and how it differs from nominative and accusative; practice using dative articles in sentences after certain prepositions and with certain verbs.

Explore the dative case by practicing prepositions that govern the dative, using articles like dem, einer, and phrases such as aus dem Haus and mit einem Onkel.

Explore how dual case prepositions switch between dative and accusative based on static location versus movement. Practice with examples like zwischen, an, auf, unter, neben, vor, hinter to describe position.

Practice and review unit four German basics, including saying where you live, describing your home and rooms, favorite room and why, and using nominative, accusative, and dative with prepositions.

Welcome to the second unit four review, reinforcing German room and furniture vocabulary through a dialogue about living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms with items like sofa, table, carpet, and wardrobe.

Learn to tell time in German by asking 'Wie viel Uhr ist es?' and using 'Es ist ... Uhr' with the 24-hour clock, numbers up to 59, mittag, and mitternacht.

From the complete German course, this lecture offers a speaking drill to tell the time in German, covering noon, midnight, and times such as 13:20 and 19:30.

Learn to tell time in German by saying times past the hour with es ist, nach, and halb constructions, using examples and practice dialogues.

Practice telling the time in German through speaking drills, using phrases like Es ist fünf, Es ist Viertel nach vier, and Es ist halb sieben.

Practice telling the time to the hour and learn the words for second, minute, hour, and quarter. Use es ist and vor in dialogues.

Practice telling the time in German through a speaking drill that reinforces hours, minutes, and seconds. Use phrases like es ist fünf vor vier to drill time expressions.

Learn to pronounce key German consonants, including final unvoiced b as a soft p, silent or vocalic r at endings, near-silent er, consonantal r at starts, and final unvoiced d.

Learn to describe your morning routine in German by practicing phrases like ich steh auf, ich douche, ich putz mir die zähne, and by asking was machst du am vormittag.

The lecture teaches how to describe a morning routine in German, including waking up, washing, and breakfast, with practice on asking what one does and separable verbs like aufstehen.

Describe a morning routine in German through a speaking drill, practicing waking up, washing, and breakfast actions.

Describe a German morning routine using present-tense phrases like ich verlass das haus, ich geh zur arbeit, and ich arbeite von zu hause aus.

Describe morning routines in German through a speaking drill centered on Max. Practice phrases like leaving the house, going to work, and working from home.

Learn to describe what you do at lunchtime and in the afternoon in German, including how to ask what someone does and where you eat (canteen, café, or restaurant).

Describe afternoon routines in German by practicing lunch-time questions and responses, choosing kantine, café, or restaurant, and stating activities like I work in the afternoon.

Describe evening routine by asking what someone does and saying I come home, I eat, and I go to bed (ich komme nach Hause, ich esse, ich gehe ins Bett).

Practice describing your evening routine in German through a speaking drill, using phrases like ich komme nach hause and ich geh ins bett to express daily actions.

Learn how time phrases shape German word order, with the time phrase first forcing the verb second and the subject after, as shown with am morgen, mittag, and abend.

Learn how separable verbs in the present tense move prefixes to the end of the sentence, and practice with ich steh auf and wir sehen fern.

Review unit five key skills in German, including telling the time, describing morning to evening routines, word order after time phrases, and separable verbs in present tense, with dialogue practice.

In unit five's review lesson, explore a dialogue with the unit's key phrases and practice via a role play, covering morning routines, breakfast, work from home, and evening to bedtime.

Learn German job names and form feminine nouns by adding -in to masculine nouns, with examples Anwalt becomes Anwältin and Kellner becomes Kellnerin.

Learn German nouns by practicing masculine and feminine forms, such as der anwalt, der apotheker, der arzt, der kellner, der lehrer, der schauspieler, der uebersetzer, and die schauspielerin, die kellnerin.

Explore how to ask and say your job in German using was für einen job haben sie and was sind sie von beruf, with masculine and feminine forms.

Practice saying what job you do in german using questions, what job do you have, and answering with I am a lawyer, I am a seller, I am a teacher.

Learn places of work in German, such as in einem büro, in einer schule, and in einem krankenhaus, with dative articles and terms like geschaft, supermarkt, reisebüro, cafe, restaurant, fabrik.

Practice speaking about common places of work in German, such as office, school, hospital, shop, supermarket, travel agency, cafe, restaurant, lab, and factory, through a speaking drill.

Learn how to say where you work in German using arbeiten, with ich arbeite in einem Büro and ich arbeite bei Adidas, plus questions about where you work.

Practice saying where you work in German with a speaking drill using examples like büro, schule, fabrik, and brands such as Adidas and Miele.

Learn to describe your working day by asking when the work begins, stating start times with um, asking about a lunch break, and saying until what time you work.

Describe your working day in German by stating start times, lunch breaks, and end times. Practice speaking with phrases like die Arbeit beginnt um and Mittagspause.

Learn how to use the German modal verb dürfen, meaning to be allowed to, with its irregular conjugations and examples like essen, rauchen, and parken.

Master the German modal verb können, meaning to be able to or can, with its irregular forms like ich kann and du kannst, and learn sentence structures with infinitives.

Master the German modal verb müssen, meaning to have to or must, with ich muss, du musst, wir müssen. Second verbs stay in infinitive form, with kaufen, telefon, deutsch sprechen.

Practice dürfen, können, and müssen to discuss rights and responsibilities at work, including what you are allowed to do, can do, and must do, through dialogues.

Explore rights and responsibilities at work through a speaking drill, practicing polite, calm communication while asking what you may do, may not do, and how to help.

Learn essential formal telephone phrases in German, including how to answer the call, identify the caller, request to speak to someone, note unavailability, and say goodbye.

Practice speaking German on the phone using common phrases like hier ist Smith, es tut mir leid, sie ist nicht da, and auf Wiederhören in a focused speaking drill.

Learn informal German telephone basics: announce who is speaking, ask if someone is there, say nein, leider nicht, and end with bis bald or tschüss.

Learn practical German telephone conversations through greetings and introductions, checking if someone is available, and closing the call with polite farewells in speaking drill practice.

Master formal and informal letter and email openings and closings, using phrases like sehr geehrte damen und herren, liebe fiona, mit freundlichen grfcdfen, and liebe grüsse.

Review key vowel sounds in unit six and guide listening and repeat practice for short and long a, umlaut a, with examples like anwalt, artist, erdstein, verkaufer, schauspieler.

Review unit six topics: gendered job nouns, profession and workplace, working day, rights at work; practice dürfen können und müssen, vowel pronunciation, telephone talk, and writing letters.

This a1 unit six review lesson presents a dialogue of key phrases and a speaking practice as Fiona, focusing on man kann, man darf, and man muss.

Revisit unit six through a short dialogue of key phrases and engage in speaking practice with role-play for Fiona and Tom, reinforcing greetings and common expressions.

Explore unit 7.1: say what you like and don’t like in German using ich mag and nicht, and practice asking what others like.

Practice saying what you like and what you don't like in German, using phrases such as ich mag die arbeit nicht and ich mach den computer nicht.

Master the German modal verb mögen to say what you like, with conjugations ich mag, du magst, er mag, wir mögen, ihr mögt, sie mögen, and animal examples.

Learn to express what you like and dislike doing in German using mögen with an infinitive, ask others if they like something, and practice common phrases like ich mag reisen.

Practice saying what you like and don't like doing through a speaking drill, covering activities such as meeting friends, traveling, garden work, cooking, and not liking swimming.

Learn to pronounce consonant sounds—the unvoiced g at word ends, the voiced g at word starts, and the k—with listen-and-repeat using words like mark, weg, golf, garten arbeit, and cook.

Learn to give positive opinions in German using common adjectives such as super, schön, prima, klasse, tolle, gut, and interessant through listening and speaking practice with example sentences.

Practice giving positive opinions in multiple languages through speaking drills, using phrases like 'tennis is super' and 'tennis ist gut' to express enthusiasm clearly.

Practice giving negative opinions in German through a speaking drill about tennis, using phrases like 'Tennis ist langweilig' and 'Tennis ist schlecht'.

Learn to give opinions in German about things and activities using finden, ask 'Wie findest du ...?' and express thoughts with phrases like 'Ich finde ... toll,' 'prima,' or 'langweilig'.

Practice giving your opinion about activities in German using 'ich finde' phrases, such as 'ich finde tennis toll' and 'ich finde es super'.

Learn to say what you think in German using ich denke, dass tennis langweilig ist, and das to link sentences. Practice was denkst du and was denken sie.

Practice expressing German opinions about activities through a speaking drill, using prompts like 'was denkst du' and 'ich denke, dass tennis langweilig ist' or 'das Schwimmen ist toll'.

Master coordinating conjunctions in German to link two sentences or phrases using aber, denn, und, oder, with listen-and-repeat practice and example sentences.

Learn to link sentences with subordinating conjunctions like weil and obwohl, place a comma before the subordinate clause, and move the verb to the end of the sentence.

This lesson teaches how to say what you like in German and why, using magst du kochen, ich mag reisen, warum, and weil for reasons, with speaking drills.

Learn to say what you like and why in German through drill, using phrases like I like cooking, I like traveling, I find it beautiful, and I don't like hiking.

Review unit seven by practicing saying what you like and dislike with the modal verb müjgan, giving opinions about activities, and using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and why.

The second review lesson revisits unit seven through a model dialogue and speaking practice, reinforcing key phrases about liking cats and dogs, garden work, and meeting friends.

Explore Germany's popular hobbies and learn how to say going to the fitness studio, sauna, restaurant, shopping, swimming, computer games, board games, and solving puzzles using gehen and spielen.

Practice talking about hobbies in German by describing activities like swimming, playing computer or board games, garden work, and going to the sauna, through engaging speaking drills.

Learn to ask what someone's hobbies are in German with 'Was sind deine hobbies?'. State your own hobbies using 'mein hobby ist' or 'meiner hobby sind'.

Practice saying your hobbies in German through a speaking drill that starts with 'Was sind deine Hobbys?'. Explore examples like gardening, fitness studio, swimming, dining out, tennis, and computer games.

Learn popular German sports vocabulary and pronunciation, practice listen-and-repeat drills across winter and field sports, and master cognates like tennis, golf, and Tischtennis for confident speaking.

Practice talking about sports through a speaking drill, using vocabulary for handball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, ice hockey, snowboarding, and field hockey.

Learn to say which sports you do, go, or play in German using machen, gehen, and spielen, with speaking and listening practice on asking about sports.

Learn to say which sports you do or play in German, with examples like riding, swimming, hiking, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, and field hockey.

Learn the present-tense conjugation of regular German verbs, including spielen, gehen, and machen, using endings to form ich spiele, du spielst, er spielt, wir spielen, ihr spielt, sie spielen.

Learn to express how often you do activities in German with frequency adverbs like oft, manchmal, selten, nie, and immer, and use once or twice a week or month phrases.

Master how often you do activities in German with a speaking drill covering phrases like how often you play tennis or football, including always, sometimes, rarely, and never.

Learn to say what sport you like playing in German using gern, with questions like 'Spielst du gern tischtennis?' and sentences 'Ich spiele gern' or 'Ich spiele nicht gern'.

Learn how to say what sports you like to play in German, including how to express not liking a sport, with phrases like 'ich spiele gern tennis'.

Learn to ask what people prefer and what they like the most in German, using phrases like was spielst du lieber and ich spiele lieber volleyball.

Practice saying what you prefer and like best, choosing between activities like handball, volleyball, tennis, and table tennis, and using 'am liebsten' and 'lieber' to express favorites in speaking drills.

Learn how to use the modal verb wollen, meaning to want, with another verb in the infinitive, and practice ich will, du willst, er will; beware vil is false friend.

Learn the names of places for leisure in German, such as kino (cinema), theater, museum, stadion, freizeitpark, bowling alley, strand, freibad, cafe, restaurant, and einkaufen zentrum, with speaking drills.

Practice speaking about places of leisure in German, including Kino, Theater, Museum, Stadion, Freizeitpark, Strand, Cafe, Restaurant, and Einkaufszentrum, through engaging speaking drills.

Learn to invite someone to places using wollen and gehen, and to come with using mit, while mastering gendered endings (ins, in die, in den) and informal/formal you forms.

Practice inviting others to places in German through speaking drills, using verbs like gehen and kommen mit, and common venue words such as theater, kino, restaurant, strand, freizeitpark.

Learn to accept invitations in German using phrases like ja, ja klar, natürlich, vielleicht, warum nicht, and good idea through dialogues and listening and repeat practice about restaurant and cinema.

Practice accepting invitations in German through a speaking drill. Use phrases like ja klar, ja natürlich, ja sicher, vielleicht, und warum nicht? Build natural, confident everyday conversation.

Learn to refuse invitations in German with polite phrases such as nein, danke, ich kann nicht, ich habe keine zeit, ich muss arbeiten.

Practice refusing invitations in German using common phrases such as leider nicht, nein, danke, ich kann nicht, ich habe keine zeit, and ich muss arbeiten.

Explore reflexive verbs and reflexive pronouns in German, including regular and irregular forms with Umlauts, and practice conjugations using ich wasche mich and wir waschen uns.

Learn to arrange when and where to meet using questions like wann treffen wir uns and wo treffen wir uns, and say times such as um 19:00, vor dem kino.

Practice making plans to meet people through a speaking drill using common German phrases for times and places. Coordinate meetups with 'wir treffen uns' and times like 'um 16'.

Review unit eight covers hobbies, sports, activity frequency, and what you like to do. Use modal verbs for leisure, and learn to invite, refuse, and make plans with reflexive verbs.

Practice deepens unit eight with a dialogue-based speaking drill, using phrases about going to the kino, theater, and film times, and arranging to meet before the cinema.

Describe villages and towns in German using es ist and ich wohne in, and practice how to ask wie ist ein dorf or wie ist eine stadt.

Practice giving information about town or village by describing size and qualities, using phrases like 'Ich wohne in Bremen' and 'Das ist ein Dorf' or 'Das ist eine Stadt'.

Learn to say where your town or village is located using the verb liegen, with compass directions and places like the countryside, mountains, coast, or a river.

Learn to say where your town or village is located in German using directional phrases—west, north, east, south of Germany—and location settings like the countryside, mountains, coast, and a river.

Learn the names of town places by category: key services (post office, bank, police, hospital), education sites (kindergarten, grundschule, gymnasium, university), and leisure locations (dome, mosque, temple, sportzentrum, bibliothek).

Practice a speaking drill on German places in town or village, using common terms like post office, bank, police, hospital, kindergarten, grundschule, gymnasium, university, kitchen, library, pub, and sport center.

Learn how to say what is in a town or village in German using es gibt, was gibt es in der stadt, and im dorf, with examples.

Practice saying what exists in a town or village in German, including a dome, a university, a hospital, a sports center, and many cafes and restaurants.

Learn to say what isn’t in your town or village in German, using was gibt es nicht im dorf and es gibt keine Univerzitet. Practice dialogue and repetitions.

Practice German phrases about what's not in your town or village by using expressions that indicate absence, with examples like universities, hospitals, and restaurants.

Explore key German consonants, including ch (like sh with aspiration), hard ch with h, th as t, and j as y, with examples such as gearshift, bibliotheque, apotheke, communication.

Master pronunciation of vowels with umlauts through listen-and-repeat practice, covering front, back, and middle mouth sounds, long and short vowels, and rounded lips with examples.

Learn to say what's good about your town or village in German, using ich wohne gern hier and das dorf ist ruhig or die stadt ist lebendig.

Practice saying what's good about your town or village by contrasting a quiet village with a lively city, and describe greenery, trees, plants, and activities you enjoy living there.

Learn to express what's not good about your town or village in German, using phrases like das Dorf ist langweilig and die Stadt ist gefährlich, plus es gibt viele probleme.

Practice saying what's not good about your town or village using phrases like I don't like living here. The village is boring, and the city is loud and dangerous.

Explore how to describe your town or village, say what exists and what doesn’t, share what’s good and what’s not, and practice pronunciation through a model dialogue.

Review unit nine with a model dialogue and speaking practice that covers key expressions about living in Frankfurt, a German city on a river, and its lively atmosphere.