Prepare with a pen and paper, and note bulb icons for listening tips. Practice the audio up to two times, since the exam may play it once or twice.

Learn the German alphabet, its letter names, umlauts, and the eszett (ß), with pronunciation tips and examples of name sounds to master basic spelling and reading.

Explore German pronunciation through diphthongs and consonant groups, with soft and strong vowels, and foreign word pronunciations. Learn how numbers are written and spoken, using units-first rules and tens multiples.

Test listening skills with numbers and the German alphabet by hearing a telephone number and spelling an email address, while learning the basics of email notation.

Practice learning German nouns by naming everyday objects and building a daily vocabulary. Learn informal and formal conversations with greetings, introductions, and pronoun usage like du and Sie.

Learn to ask and answer basic w questions in German, including who, what, where, and how, and practice talking about languages, residence, and personal details for the Goethe A1 exam.

Learn German verb conjugation in the present tense, distinguishing regular and irregular verbs, mastering pronouns and roots, with practical examples and a handy dictionary resource.

Frame German questions and answers confidently by mastering standard and w-question forms, verb conjugation with pronouns, and pronoun-noun order. Practice applying formal and informal pronouns to craft accurate responses.

Explore German days of the week, learn weekday and weekend terms, and practice planning activities through a listening dialogue, with substitutions of places and use of short preposition-article forms.

Describe your profession in German, introduce yourself professionally, and ask and answer workplace questions about job, hours, and location in an office setting.

Learn how German handles singular and plural, with spelling changes and endings such as en, and why you should study singular and plural together to compare with English.

Learn the German seasons and their associated months, noting masculine nouns and the spelling differences from English to help you prepare for the Goethe exam.

Explore German articles in the nominative case with examples of definite and indefinite forms, as you identify places and landmarks described by gender and nouns.

Understand the German negation article, which negates the article to mean not or no, with nominative case examples like not a man and not a church.

Learn imperative sentence structure for giving directions, featuring verb-first commands and a pronoun after the verb in formal imperatives, to guide someone along routes.

Learn German meal vocabulary by grouping meals into breakfast, midday, snacks, and supper, with examples such as bread, marmalade, eggs, milk, orange juice, coffee and cake.

Explore groceries vocabulary and practice using German articles in the accusative case, with examples from bakery, market, meat shop, and supermarket, in part 1 of the course.

Analyze German sentence structure by examining nominative subjects, accusative objects, pronouns, and articles, and understand how accusative prepositions like für affect case and word order.

Learn verbs with the accusative, master nominative–verb–accusative order, and use accusative articles in sentences. Practice meal-time dialogues and phrases such as would you like.

Explore grammar topics on formal and informal time, using time in everyday conversations, networking and communication, and career plans.

Practice describing Ben’s daily activities in German, from breakfast to a walk and football. Master telling time in formal and informal German, using the 24-hour format and third-person verb conjugation.

Learn to express time in German conversations through four practical scenes—cinema, train station, a sleeping child, and an office chat—using time prepositions.

Explore possessive articles and pronouns in German, learn gender-based endings, and practice nominative and accusative forms with example sentences.

Discover how German modal verbs are conjugated and placed in sentences: subject, the conjugated modal verb in second position, a noun, and the main verb in infinitive at the end.

Learn useful German phrases for punctuality, apologizing for lateness, and scheduling appointments, illustrated by a doctor-patient dialogue about finding available times.

Learn how to write and say dates in German, including how to write dates like 1st, 20th, and 30th, and how to say birthdays such as 15th November.

Master how separable verbs work in German, with rules that prefixes detach and go to the end of the sentence, even with model verbs, illustrated by mitbringen and ankommen.

Explore how German personal pronouns appear in the accusative case and when to use accusative pronouns with prepositions such as für, illustrated by examples like me, you, him.

Practice listening and reading to extract prices, times, and dates from event dialogues, using key words like ticket, price, euro, and open air cinema to build beginner German skills.

Practice forming and answering the key w questions to gather information—name, telephone number, and email—and use German verb-at-end structure in speaking tasks for the Goethe A1 exam.

Develop German reading comprehension by extracting appointment details from a letter and calendar, identifying who meets whom, when, and where.

Learn the dative case by identifying indirect objects, choosing the right definite and indefinite articles, and using dative prepositions and verbs that take a dative object in realistic examples.

Learn the structure of German emails and letters, with formal and informal examples, including invitations, responses, and how to format addresses, dates, salutations, and signatures.

Explore possessive pronouns and possessive articles in the accusative case, showing how they mark the object and agree with masculine, feminine, and plural nouns in German.

Explore common rooms and household objects in German, from kitchen and living room to bathroom and bedroom, and learn the German words for items like washing machine and computer.

Carla and Alex evaluate an email about finding a calm, bright three-room apartment of about 80 square meters for €700, with kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, and a working room.

Explore German accusative and dative prepositions with motion versus stationary use in room-to-room furniture placement, through a moving-in dialogue between Alex and Carla.

Explore the perfekt past tense in German by forming a past participle with haben or sein, placing the second participle at sentence end, and noting motion affects auxiliary choice.

Explore a listening and speaking practice through a job-search conversation between a client and a job agency, practicing how to inquire about opportunities and next steps.