
Learn how to introduce your family and friends in German, using possessive articles like mein, meine, and their gendered forms, and practice informal and formal introductions.
Learn German family vocabulary, from mother and father to sister, brother, grandparents, and spouses, with formal and informal terms and key relations.
Review the previous lessons and practice introducing your family in formal German greetings, including married and single, with polite exchanges like good evening and may I introduce you.
Learn to ask how old you are and talk about siblings in German, including how to answer I am years old and how to mention brothers or sisters.
Learn how to say where you live, discuss your origins, and name the languages you speak in German, with examples of wohnen endings and dative usage.
Learn how German adjectives change in the nominative after definite and indefinite articles, including masculine, feminine, neuter, and plural forms, with color adjectives and real-world examples.
Learn German question words, including who, what, where, and why, with notes on accusative and dative forms. Understand how noun gender affects choice and explore where from and where to.
Learn to ask for and understand directions in German for beginners level 2, mastering essential directional terms and questions about the train station, cash machines, and local landmarks.
Practice pronunciation while asking for and understanding directions, with step-by-step cues to reach places like the city hall. The lesson previews vocabulary and phrases for shopping in the next session.
Learn essential shopping phrases in German, including how to ask for prices, pay by cash or credit card, and handle receipts, coins, change, and identification.
Explore essential german shopping vocabulary for clothes, covering department stores and women’s, men’s, and children’s sections, with items like blouse, dress, shirt, jeans, coat, shoes, sizes, and trying on.
Practice shopping conversations in a department store, including asking for items, trying on clothes, checking prices, and paying with cash or credit card.
Learn basic German for buying vegetables at the market, including naming vegetables and ordering quantities with phrases like 'how much is' and 'I would like'.
Learn essential German phrases to invite someone out, ask about evening plans, and suggest activities like going to the cinema or having a meal or coffee.
Master essential cafe interactions in German, from ordering coffee, tea, or juice to asking for more, paying together or separately, and noting tips and apple pie options.
Learn how to discuss your hobbies in German, using common verbs for playing sports, reading, cooking, hiking, traveling, and other leisure activities in everyday conversations.
Explore essential German phrases for a visit to someone's home, including formal and informal welcomes, offering help, and dining room vocabulary with verbs like helfen and anbieten.
Describe how to talk about where you live in German, using vocabulary for house, apartment, dormitory, rooms, and common housing features like balcony, garden, kitchen, and bathroom.
Describe your daily routine in German using reflexive verbs and separate-prefix verbs, with examples like waking up, getting dressed, eating breakfast, going to work, and winding down at home.
Discover a quick overview of useful vocabularies in German for beginners, lesson 23 useful words 2, with a hint about the next lesson on asking for help.
Learn how to ask for help in German, including the irregular verb helfen and its conjugations (ich helfe, du hilfst, er hilft), plus emergency phrases for police and hospital.
Learn how to tell the time in German, including on the hour, quarter past, and minutes to, with vocabulary for morning, afternoon, evening, and common phrases.
Learn practical German for beginners by mastering apology phrases, asking someone to repeat or slow down, writing things down, and expressing understanding, meaning, and agreement.
Express yourself in german by learning how to talk about feelings, including when you feel happy, sad, angry, tired, or embarrassed, using regular and reflexive verbs.
Learn essential German vocabulary for romance and love, including asking someone out, inviting dinner, compliments, and talking about relationships and kissing.
Learn essential German holiday greetings and wishes, including birthday expressions, New Year, Christmas, Easter, and Mother's Day and Father's Day phrases.
Learn the most common German expressions, including phrases for sleep like a dog, good luck, what bad luck, I beg your pardon, and practical phrases for agreement or ok.
Learn the present tense conjugation of the regular verb heiraten and explore sich scheiden lassen, a reflexive verb meaning to divorce, with example forms.
Explore verbs for directions in German: gehen to go, and abbiegen to turn, including present tense conjugations of irregular and separable prefix verbs, helping ask for and understand directions.
Learners practice the verb sich entschuldigen, meaning to apologize, presented as a regular verb with example forms like you apologize and he/she/it apologizes.
Master key German verbs such as gefallen (to like), zahlen (to pay), glauben (to believe), and to sign, exploring irregular conjugations and the dative use with pronouns through shopping phrases.
Celebrates finishing German for beginners level 2 by recapping introducing family and friends, ages, hobbies, and daily routines, and inviting out, with a preview of level 3 topics.
Learn how German nouns work, including capitalization, gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and number (singular or plural). Review basic cases—nominative, genitive, accusative—and note compound words.
Explore German compound words formed by combining nouns, adjectives, verbs, and prepositions. Identify the seven composition types, including noun plus noun and verb stem plus noun, to build new words.
Learn the four German cases—nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive—through subject and object roles, article forms, and possession with examples.
Learn a quick introduction to German expressions for everyday conversations, with example translations like yes, it's good, and let's go to build practical fluency.
Explore identical words that share spelling and meaning in English and German, with pronunciation tips and new vocabulary across categories a to h for beginners.
Master 35 new German words from I to P in this level 2 beginner lesson, with notes on c to k spelling shifts and examples like industry and journalist.
Learn German pronunciation and spelling from Q to Z, practice letter-by-letter sounds, and see how articles and everyday words like taxi, sandwich, and xylophone are used.
Learn about false friends and identical-looking words in German, which look the same as English but may have different meanings or pronunciations, helping you avoid awkward situations.
German for Beginners – Level 2 online video course is a continuation of the German for Beginners introductory course. This course is designed as an easy to use, fun and interactive introduction to more topics of the German language.
This course will teach you the structures and vocabulary necessary in order to communicate in every day situations. It focuses on day-to-day conversational topics and will give you an extended understanding of the language.
You'll develop a better understanding and improve your German skills through speaking and using the language, instead of spending weeks on learning grammar rules.
What’s inside?
This course has over 77 Lectures, built around 12 core topics:
1. Basic Phrases and Vocabulary (1): Making Social Contact
2. Essentials (1)
3. Basic Phrases and Vocabulary (2): In the City
4. Basic Phrases and Vocabulary (3): The Invitation
5. Essentials (2)
6. Basic Phrases and Vocabulary (4): Expressing Feelings and Wishes
7. Conclusion
8. Introduction and Basic Grammar
9. Essentials (3)
10. Leisure
11. In the City
12. Food and Drinks | Invitation
13. Travel and Geography
After completing the German For Beginners – Level 2 course you will be able to communicate in practical, day-to-day situations in German more extensively and not only develop a natural understanding of the language, but also extend your grammar and vocabulary knowledge.
Start learning German today and see you on the inside!
Course updated on February 15th, 2015.