
Presents a simple, effective teaching methodology for German grammar, analyzes sample sentences, and introduces word formation, adjectives from nouns, present and past participles, and compound words.
Master German relative clauses (relativsatz) by learning relative pronouns, case agreements, and how clauses modify nouns or entire sentences with practical examples.
Explore soft skills vocabulary, German word formation, and noun derivation to express creativity and responsibility in engineering contexts.
Explore short descriptions of fields of activity for engineers, and learn essential German terms for research (forschung) and developments, with example sentences and core vocabulary.
Learn to describe engineers' fields of activity in German, including operation, construction, and maintenance. Explore practical sentences, key terminology, and the introduction of passive voice for engineering contexts.
Apply active-to-passive conversion in German by turning accusative objects into subjects, handling sentences with no objects using impersonal pronouns, and using dotted objects or pronouns at sentence start.
Explore six German passive replacements that express passive meaning without the standard passive, including common plus past participle, impersonal and reflexive usage, plus infinitive structures and adjective endings.
Master extended participles in German, including standard and present and past participles, and practice forming relative clauses to express concise, written sentences.
Explore the classification of computer science into four core areas and the divisions of informatics, with German examples showing how to name and discuss subfields.
Learn how German relative pronouns work in genitive and dative, focusing on dessen, deren, and denen. Explore nominative usage, decline rules, and prepositional combinations with gender and number in examples.
Explore temporal prepositions in German, focusing on genitive, dative, and accusative uses with examples. The lesson covers how to express duration, exact times, uncertain times, and simultaneous events.
"German for Engineers" language course addresses a specific target group: It is designed for engineering students and engineers who are interested in study or work opportunities in German spoken countries.
Students of this course should have completed a minimum A2 level in German, ideally with some experience in B1 or B2 levels.
The course contains grammatical and structural analysis of sample sentences that can be understood with basic knowledge as well as more demanding texts selected from real-life cases in technical education and engineering communication.
As of July 2020, the course has 21 lectures (4 hours of video). When we reach 30 lectures, all grammar topics of B1 and B2 levels will be covered.
The balance between different fields of engineering:
It is a fact that the field of engineering has an enormous variety of subcategories. Even though informatics and computer science comprise a bigger part of our sample sentences in the beginning sections, we have sought to find a balance between disciplines and current technical issues in different fields of engineering.
Many examples from the disciplines of materials science, electrical engineering and computer science will be highlighted with subject-specific language characteristics.
Grammatical structures:
And we have tried to find another balance between learning grammatical structures and useful phrases in daily life communication.
Actually there is no real difference between grammars of technical jargon and daily German. The only difference is the usage frequency of certain structures. For instance, we can mention the passive voice and alternative substitutions of passive. They show up more frequently in technical texts than in daily conversations.
Once you have learned the grammatical structures in a certain field of engineering, they are surely transferable to cases in other areas of engineering and daily life communication.