
Begin with English explanations and an active, participatory approach designed for beginners. Read, hear, and repeat sentences, study vocabulary, and receive explanations and examples to form your own German sentences.
Explore 23 German words that resemble English spellings or sounds, guess their meanings, and practice pronunciation cues like silent r, sch, umlaut, ch, and v.
Learn German gender with der, die, and das, four cases and declensions, conjugations, verb-centered word order, and the importance of intonation, plus a downloadable grammar terms sheet.
Explore German pronunciation from A to Z, including long and short vowels, umlauts, eszet, ch and other consonant patterns, and learn by listening and repeating.
Master German numbers from zero to twenty, then learn how tens like zwanzig and dreißig work, using the unit-before-ten rule einund for ages and larger values.
Learn to describe a blue umbrella using simple German phrases, noting the umbrella is beautiful and wet. Apply the new structure der regenschirm for beginners as you build language skills.
Explore how der regenschirm illustrates masculine nouns, definite and indefinite articles, and capitalization. Learn verb conjugation of sein, negation with nicht, adjective endings, and yes-no questions.
Practice German sentence patterns using the dog as the subject, describing color, age, and quality with phrases like the dog is white, young, and good.
Explore example sentences illustrating der apfel to describe the apple with red, sweet, and small traits. Practice color and size questions in a beginner German context.
Apply the existing structures to describe a chair and a ball in German, using der stuhl and der ball with colors white and black and sizes klein and gross.
Practice German noun phrases about a chair and a ball, describing color white or black and size, with yes-no questions like is the chair white and is the ball small.
Practice a self-guided speaking exercise on masculine nouns by describing memory-based responses to pictures, pausing to say sentences aloud, and repeating slides like 'Der Regenschirm' to reinforce recall.
Apply the new structure die flasche to describe a bottle using color and state terms, noting brown, full, cold, and forming questions like is the bottle brown or full.
Learn how German uses the feminine definite article die with nouns like die flasche and how eine signals the indefinite article, while feminine adjectives take an -e ending.
Explore how the cat is described through simple sentences, practicing color, age, and texture with terms like light brown, young, and soft.
Practice basic German with example sentences about the lemon, describing its color, freshness, and juiciness, and asking simple questions like is the lemon yellow or fresh.
Practice forming sentences with two feminine nouns die lampe and die blume, using hell and dunkle and color words red and blue, and compare to prior structures.
Practice German sentence structures by describing a lamp and a flower, using bright, red, and blue concepts, with negation for dark and blue in simple statements.
Learn how sauer and dunkel adjectives decline before nouns, losing their original e and changing endings. See exceptions with r and l endings and the note on toya, expensive.
Practice speaking feminine nouns through a timed picture-based exercise, pausing to form and vocalize sentences, and retry after reviewing the lecture to strengthen learning.
Describing houses becomes easy as you learn a new structure: das haus, and practice with adjectives such as old, pretty, small, big, new, and ugly.
Explore neuter nouns with das and ein, use es as the neutral subject pronoun, and apply the neuter adjective ending -s in sentences like das haus ist alt.
Practice German basics with das Buch through example sentences about the book being interesting, thick, old, and not new, and by forming questions about it.
Practice German sentences with das Auto, describing a car as fast, modern, and clean. Ask yes-no questions about whether the car is fast, modern, or clean.
Practice writing sentences with neutral nouns das Pferd and das Glas, exploring fast and slow, full and empty, and compare your results with model sentences in the next video.
Explore basic sentence patterns about the horse and the glass, including fast versus slow and full versus empty states, using simple, repetitive examples.
Practice forming sentences with neuter nouns across all genders using picture prompts from the slides, recalling key phrases. Pause between images to craft sentences and review the lecture as needed.
Learn the new structure with Die Regenschirme by using simple sentences about umbrellas, colors, apples, chairs, bottles, cats, houses, and cars, including fresh, gray, empty, little, beautiful, and new adjectives.
Learn how German forms plural nouns, their definite articles, and adjective endings, using regenschirme as an example, while practicing was ist das for singular and plural nouns.
Learn basic German sentence patterns with vocabulary for dogs, balls, lemons, and lamps, using are and these are to describe young, dirty, yellow, and colorful items.
practice forming sentences with plural nouns using words you have seen, such as blumen, pferde, and bücher, and compare your sentences with the models shown in the next video.
Explore basic German for beginners through sentences about flowers, glasses, horses, and books, emphasizing color, quantity, and simple questions.
Practice using singular and plural nouns through spoken sentences like 'this is ...' and 'these are ...', optionally adding adjectives to reinforce grammar concepts for beginners.
Assess your A1/A2 German knowledge with a section quiz designed for beginners, reinforcing essential phrases and grammar from the German for You course.
Explore how to correctly decline adjectives in German across genders and numbers, using base forms vs declined endings, with quiz explanations and practical example sentences.
Explore the German verb schlafen by using sleeping across subjects in sentences, including questions such as are you sleeping. The caption shows sleeping with cat, man, woman, baby, and monkey.
Explore the German verb spielen with examples of people playing billiards, football, soccer, cards, computer games, guitar, chess, and more.
Master German verb conjugation by examining endings, infinitive stems, and the two verb groups, with ich, du, er, and wir/sie forms, plus vowel changes in schlafen.
Learn how people speak different languages with examples in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Czech, including on the phone and talking with others.
Explore everyday reading activities in German, from reading a book, magazines, or newspapers to reading maps and messages, with varied contexts like in bed, in the park, or at sea.
Learn when to use formal Sie versus informal du in German, for one person or two or more, based on relationship and setting, such as shops, neighbors, and university.
Practice common German verbs in dialogue situations, using questions and statements about speaking German, reading German books, playing guitar, sports, and moods to build basic conversation skills.
Master German present-tense verb conjugation for ich, du, er/sie/es, wir, ihr, sie, and Sie; compare sein, schlafen, spielen, sprechen, lesen with vowel changes, endings, and gern usage.
Practice basic German verbs schlafen, spielen, sprechen, lesen, sein through a beginner-level test, reinforcing essential language skills for the German for you A1/A2 course.
Complete a brief quiz to assess your beginner German skills (A1/A2) as you progress through the German for you course.
This lecture provides explanations for a German a1/a2 quiz, covering subject pronouns, verb conjugations, gender and number clues, adjective declension, and basic vocabulary through multiple-choice reasoning.
Describe simple present scenes: the old man reading a book, the boy playing superhero, and the dog sleeping, then ask yes-no questions like does the nice man speak Russian.
Explore basic German through simple descriptions of people and objects, such as an old woman speaking on the phone, a young cat playing, and a full bottle.
Explore German adjective declension, comparing indefinite and definite articles, and learn endings such as -e, -en, -r, and -s for masculine, feminine, neuter, and plural nouns.
Learn basic German through scenes: a young girl reading a magazine, a cute child playing with paint, a white horse that is fast, and a sweet baby not speaking yet.
Learn German basics for describing people and moods through everyday sentences about boys outside, cheerful and playing football, and women in a good mood and likeable.
Practice and prepare for a test on adjectives in German, helping beginners master descriptive word forms.
practice listening to music and everyday sounds in German, including hearing, loud and quiet music, and scenes with the ocean, bells, and nature.
Describe where people and animals live, including alive or not alive, using basic German terms for city, country, sea, ocean, forest, mountains, and places like Germany, Spain, Siberia.
Explore how arbeiten expresses work through everyday contexts—from office and home to construction sites, schools, garages, laboratories, and outdoors—covering sentences about every day, evenings, and future work.
Explore how regular verbs like arbeiten form conjugations when the stem ends in -t or -d, without vowel change, and add -et and -est for er, du, and ihr.
Practice listening and speaking through dialogues about music, work, and living together, and learn how to describe where you live and how long you’ve lived or worked in German.
Develop beginner-friendly German skills by focusing on listening, daily life conversations, and work scenarios through hören, leben, arbeiten. Build confidence with practical phrases and basic language tasks for A1/A2 learners.
Test your beginner German skills with a quick quiz designed for A1/A2 learners in the German for You course.
Enhance German listening comprehension by decoding vocabulary clues and pictures, identifying arbeiten and leben meanings, and distinguishing am Meer from im Meer, with werkstatt, baustelle, labor.
Explore German cases by examining the nominative for the subject and how objects use accusative or dative. Genitive is rare, with a preview of rules and practical examples.
Learn German location prepositions and the dative, including contractions im and am from in dem and an dem, with article endings for masculine, feminine, and plural.
Practice basic German actions in places from city and country to ocean and forest, linking living, working, reading, and speaking to everyday scenes.
Take a test on prepositions and places for German beginners in the A1/A2 course. Reinforce foundational grammar and vocabulary for starting German study.
Explore how to use man for general statements, as in In Spanien spricht man Spanisch. Learn that gern and gern e are synonymous, and how seit expresses time, for and since.
Learn to ask and answer whose it is using German possessive pronouns mein, dein, sein, and ihr, with everyday items like umbrella, bottle, book, balls, and cars.
Learn to use kein and keine to negate nouns in German, with practical examples like apple, lemon, glass, bottle, houses, cars, dog, cat, table, chair, glasses, and bottles.
Explore how possessive articles mein, dein, sein, ihr change endings according to the noun's gender and number, with examples like mein regenschirm, meine flasche, seine flasche, and kein/keine usage.
Take a quiz to assess your beginner German skills in the German for You A1/A2 course.
Explore the German verb haben to express possession and attributes through everyday sentences. Use examples about family, friends, possessions, and time, such as 'has a sister', 'watch', 'money', and 'vacation'.
Explore haben, its conjugations (ich habe, du hast, er hat), phrases like spaß haben and urlaub haben, and demonstratives wie dieser/diese; also time phrases wie sechs uhr.
Study the accusative, the direct object case, and how masculine nouns change; feminine, neuter, and plural objects stay the same as the subject, with most direct objects in the accusative.
Learn to use sein and haben to express this is and I have with everyday nouns such as cat, bottle, lemon, lamp, car, book, house, horse, apples, and umbrella.
To express possession in German using haben with masculine nouns, illustrated by examples of an older brother, a son, and a dog.
Examine how the accusative affects masculine nouns, with articles and adjectives ending in -en, and learn pronoun changes like mich, dich, ihn, uns, euch for masculine objects.
Prepare for a test on haben in German for you at A1/A2 level, as part of a German language course for beginners.
Learn to express wants and polite requests in German using möchte, with everyday examples from coffee to beer and shopping.
Explain how möchten is a two-part verb derived from mögen, used with an accusative object or a verb, with the conjugated part second and the infinitive last in main clauses.
Learn to express needs in German with brauchen, using everyday examples like I need a coffee, she needs something to eat, and they need help.
Learn to express ability and inability with können through everyday actions like riding, driving, running, swimming, and performing arts, including negation for scenarios like can't sleep or can't see.
Explore practical dialogues using haben, möchten, brauchen, können to express wants, needs, and abilities. Practice common exchanges about sunglasses, ice-cream, lemonade, water, training, and swimming.
Explore how haben and brauchen take accusative objects, while möchten and können take infinitives as modal verbs, and how helfen uses a dative object with du and mir.
Explore how to use the German modal verbs möchten, brauchen, können in everyday sentences, building beginner skills and practical communication for A1/A2 learners.
Explain when to use brauchen versus möchten with objects and verbs, using etwas and etwas zu essen, with examples like Er kann nicht Fahrrad fahren.
Introduce Janine, a 32-year-old nurse in Heidelberg, who shares her husband Tim, their son Rene, her parents, and a small apartment as they balance work, family, and city life.
Learn to introduce yourself with ich heiße, read zweiunddreißig, explore gendered job titles and possessives wie unsere und unser, and apply -en/-n verb endings in wandern.
Explore German possessives with gehören, showing how items belong to me, you, him, her, and them through examples like mine, yours, his car, her book, and their scooter.
Explore possessive articles mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, and their endings for masculine, neuter, feminine, and plural nouns, plus dative pronouns mir, dir, ihm, uns, euch, ihnen.
Take a beginner-friendly quiz to test your knowledge of German basics in the German for You A1/A2 course.
Master the German verb mögen to express likes and dislikes using family, hobbies, food, and everyday questions like 'do you like', with I like responses—built for beginners.
Explore the German modal verb mögen, its irregular conjugation, its use with accusative objects, and the gern tun structure for permanently liking to do something.
Learn to use kennen to talk about knowing people, ask who someone is, and express familiarity with others through examples like Elvis Presley and 'we know each other'.
Explore the difference between kennen and wissen, focusing on using kennen with objects for people, and practice wen kennen wir and wir kennen jemanden, including reflexive kennen sich.
Explore the German verb finden through everyday contexts—finding the road, your way, and information online. Express opinions, tastes, and judgments on what is difficult, easy, or wonderful.
Explore how finden expresses two meanings—finding after searching and expressing an opinion—uses an accusative object and, with a stem ending in d, adds an extra e.
Master the verbs mögen, kennen, and finden in a beginner German course. Build basic communication skills for A1/A2 learners.
Take a quick quiz to review German basics for beginners at the A1/A2 level within the German for you course.
Explore German pronouns, verb forms, and quiz-based solutions. Note when Sie is capitalized as a formal form.
Explore how the German preposition mit always governs the dative, contrasted with ohne which takes the accusative, and learn fixed‑case prepositions.
Learn German vocabulary for everyday objects and the 'with' construction by linking items such as keys, light bulbs, coffee machines, washing machines, pens, and laptops.
Master German basics with a beginner-level test designed for A1/A2 learners. Practice essential vocabulary and grammar using the word mit.
Learn everyday German vocabulary around things working or not working, using kaputt for broken, with examples like laptops, elevators, washing machines, towels, cameras, shoes, phones, lights, and remote controls.
Explore müssen as must or need to, its present tense forms, and verb brackets; examine separable verbs like ausschalten and einschalten with preverbs aus and ein, plus können with infinitives.
Learn to express obligation in German with müssen, using have to, must, and don't have to in everyday situations, and ask when do you have to work or leave.
Learn everyday German vocabulary for common devices: handy, glühbirne, and waschmaschine, with terms for broken devices, repairs, changing batteries, remotes, cameras, smartphones, light bulbs, and appliances like the dishwasher.
Learn how to form German subclauses with the subjunction wenn, place the conjugated verb at the end, and combine with a main clause using correct word order and comma.
Learn to speak German by studying, reading, and traveling. Wear sunglasses when the sun shines, and meet daily needs: eat, drink, rest.
engage in a beginner friendly test focused on müssen and wenn, reinforcing german modal usage and basic conditional forms.
Explore German grammar: master subclauses with the verb at the end, learn modal verbs müssen und wollen, and practice dative, zu and zum usage, plus reflexive verbs wie sich beeilen.
Discover how nehmen conjugates with vowel and spelling changes, and how to use jemanden/niemand and etwas/nichts in cases; ask people with wem and things with was.
Wake up at seven, prepare for the day, and pursue a marketing career with research and ideas, then run a half marathon, practice yoga, take dinner photos, and sleep.
Learn daily routine German through time expressions like nachts and morgens, separable verbs such as aufwachen and einschlafen, and reflexive actions with accusative and dative objects.
Learn how reflexive pronouns work in German, compare them with object pronouns in the accusative and dative cases, and practice forms for all persons in daily routines.
Explore German reflexive verbs with practical examples from the lecture title Sie wäscht sich, using sich, sich selbst, and themselves in everyday actions like washing and looking at oneself.
Examine how German handles direct, indirect, and reflexive objects with pronouns like mich, dich, sich, and ihr; compare fotografiert sie, fotografiert sich, and wäscht sich.
Take on a mega-drill test centered on daily routines to strengthen beginner German skills for learners at the A1/A2 level.
Explore the city and learn everyday German vocabulary for places like the hospital, pharmacy, bakery, café, cinema, town hall, supermarket, and train station.
Learn how 'es gibt' expresses there is or there are, with es as the subject, plus adjective declensions for teuer and hoch in examples like teure Kleidung and hohes Gebäude.
Learn how German prepositions of place govern the dative or accusative case, with wo vs wohin usage, and practice examples like in diesem Zimmer and ins Zimmer.
Introduce beginners to everyday German through location-based vocabulary: park, school, university, cinema, and beach, with actions like walking, jogging, studying, sitting, and watching movies.
Explore when to use accusative or dative after prepositions of relative location, based on wohin vs wo, with examples like in die Schule and im Meer.
Take a quiz on wo & wohin to practice basic German location questions for beginners.
Learn when you may and may not do things in German, with parking, taking pictures, entering, swimming, and bike riding, and reasons like private property, danger, and police investigations.
Explore dürfen as a modal verb of permission with an infinitive, its umlautless forms (ich darf, du darfst, wir dürfen), and the use of weil along with separable verbs.
Learn how to use weil to express reasons in german with everyday examples, from being tired to needing coffee to avoid sleep and to describe warm or cool weather.
Explore geben, schenken, bringen, and zeigen as practical German verbs for giving, bringing, showing, and gifting in everyday scenes.
Learn how to form German sentences with two objects using dative and accusative, with verbs schenken, geben, and bringen, and apply proper word order and adjective declension.
Practice a beginner German test focusing on wem and warum to reinforce pronoun usage and basic question formation for everyday conversations.
Explore using the dative with wem and indirect object, remember dative plurals end in s or n, and apply pronoun substitution and separable verbs in weil clauses for natural speech.
Test your German pronouns and possessive forms with a beginner-friendly quiz designed for the German for you A1/A2 course.
Master German pronouns, including accusative and dative forms, and possessive articles. Identify reflexive forms and object case usage through practical examples.
Explore Sein in Präteritum through everyday past time expressions like yesterday, last year, and last summer, and compare past states with 'was' and 'were'.
Master the German past with sein in Präteritum and use time phrases like schon einmal and noch nie, while learning weekdays, dates, seasons, and two-way prepositions am, im, vor.
Learn haben in präteritum to express past events in everyday life, with examples of birthdays, vacations, weather, and experiences.
Explore how haben is used in the präteritum with ich hatte. Learn comparatives and superlatives, including -er endings, vowel changes (klein, jünger, größer), and am + superlative constructions.
Practice a test on sein and haben in Präteritum tailored for beginners in German a1/a2, reinforcing verb conjugation and usage.
Explore German past actions using yesterday examples like played football, worked, bought shoes, learned, and painted. See how the question what did you do yesterday frames everyday activities and reactions.
Explore the German Perfekt, a two-part past tense with haben and Partizip II, compare it to Präteritum, and note regular and irregular participles and the verb bracket.
Explore common German verbs through everyday scenes—from finding the path to giving a kiss, reading a newspaper, speaking German, and other daily actions.
Explore irregular participles in German, focusing on ge- prefix and -en endings, with stem changes in finden, schreiben, sehen, and trinken. Prepare for the test by reviewing Partizip II forms.
Practice forming sentences using the past participles gemacht and gefunden within a German A1/A2 course, reinforcing grammar and sentence structure.
Practice common past tense verbs and travel actions using examples like went, has gone, walked, ran, and flew, and understand question forms such as when did you get home.
Explore partizip ii forms, including regular, irregular, and mixed gerannt, with stem changes; learn why movement verbs use sein in the perfect tense and how werden expresses change of state.
Explore the life cycles of becoming, growing, and dying through vivid examples—from people aging and getting healthy to plants, children, and birds growing and dying.
Explore German change-of-state verbs in the present and perfect tenses, focusing on werden, wachsen, and sterben, with irregular forms and participles such as geworden, gewachsen, gestorben, and examples using seit.
Review essential German auxiliaries sein and haben in a beginner quiz. Build confidence in conjugation and sentence construction for A1/A2 learners.
The lecture traces a morning routine from waking up to falling asleep, including turning on the light, washing, getting dressed, using the computer, recording a video, shopping, and watching tv.
Explore separable verbs and their Partizip II, showing ge- sits between preverb and stem, and that einschlafen uses sein as a state change, with examples like aufgewacht and ausgemacht.
Explore beginner German through practical phrases, including ich habe bezahlt, paying by credit card, visiting a museum, and friendly greetings.
Examine how prefixes and preverbs shape German verbs and their Partizip II forms. Distinguish separable from prefix verbs in present tense and identify examples like bezahlen and zubereiten.
Explore common German past-tense verbs through everyday actions, from trained and repaired to photographed and studied, plus questions like what happened here, for beginners.
Explore regular -ieren verbs like funktionieren, reparieren, fotogarfieren, which share the same Partizip II ending -t and lack ge- as a prefix, while verlieren has the irregular Partizip II, verloren.
Engage in a mega drill test on gestern to reinforce beginner German skills within the German for you a1/a2 course for beginners.
Explore Luisa's birthday party dynamics as a guest list unfolds, with many invited but some unable or unwilling to attend for diverse reasons.
Explore how modal verbs stay in Präteritum to avoid splitting in the Perfekt, review stem-based conjugations for können, dürfen, müssen, sollen, wollen, and see subclause patterns with weil.
Practice past tense expressions of ability, obligation, and permission through a dialogue about working late, staying home, shopping, listening to music, and using Martin's rehearsal room.
Master past modal verbs in German with a targeted test for beginners in the German for you a1/a2 course.
Learn german vocabulary for work, including Arbeit, Beruf, Arbeitsplatz, Praktikum, der Chef, die Chefin, and Feierabend, and discuss past jobs and future opportunities.
Practice German shopping vocabulary, identifying offers, groceries, and items at the supermarket, bakery, and market, while learning buying phrases and price keywords.
Learn essential German food vocabulary, including apfel, bananen, brot, brötchen, butter, das Essen, Frühstück, fisch, fleisch, kartoffeln, getranke, and Cafe.
Acquire essential German food vocabulary for beginners, including bread, milk, salad, tomato, fruit, tea, ham, and dining phrases for ordering and shopping.
Learn essential German family vocabulary, including mutter, vater, bruder, schwester, oma, opa, großmutter, großvater, eltern, and verwandte, with examples of introducing relatives.
Practice filling forms, writing signatures, and recording personal data such as first name, family name, and gender for German form completion.
Explore colors and measurements from the lecture, including black, white, blue, red, green, yellow, brown, and gray, along with units like meter, centimeter, kilometer, gram, and kilogram.
Explore countries, cardinal directions, and currency through German vocabulary, including north, south, and west, and the euro, to build practical language skills for beginners.
Learn German numbers and dates from ordinal numbers like das erste and das zweite to das elfte, including Januar and Februar, and geburtstag expressions.
Explore German days of the week, months, and seasons with essential vocabulary, from Monday to Sunday and January to December, including spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Explore German numbers from zwei to neunzig and beyond, including elf, zwanzig, einundzwanzig, hundert, eine million, and eine milliarde, through the lecture caption's examples.
Learn to tell time in German by identifying hours and daily segments, including Stunde, Stunden, eine halbe Stunde, Vormittag, Mittag, Nachmittag, Abend, and Nacht.
Learn essential German vocabulary for body and health, including parts, symptoms like fever and dry mouth, seeking medical help for injuries like a broken arm, with clinics closed on weekends.
Explore how to sign up for courses and exams, understand tasks, find solutions on page 18, and learn retake options, while noting the lesson time and required pencils and pens.
Explore travel and traffic vocabulary in German, including arrival times, signs, asking for information, and options to travel by car, autobahn, train, or bus.
Explore essential travel and transport vocabulary for beginners, including flight terms, airports, travel agency, luggage, guides, and city transit like S-Bahn, tram, and taxi.
Build basic German living vocabulary for A1/A2, including apartment, address, elevator, kitchen, garden, furniture, and common phrases for describing a home.
Explore German words starting with a, featuring common verbs and nouns such as anrufen, anfangen, adresse, der anruf, licht an machen, and phrases about starting, addresses, doors, and daily life.
Learn German words with a, part II, including prefix verbs such as auf, aufstehen, aussehen, aufhören, and everyday nouns like auskunft, automat, die tür, and das licht.
Explore German words starting with b, including bank, bar, bezahlen, beginnen, beispiel, and besetzen, with practical phrases like 'zum beispiel' and 'ich möchte bar zahlen'.
Explore German vocabulary focused on words starting with b, such as bild, bilder, buch, buchstaben, briefmarken, blick, bitter, bitten, and common phrases for asking for something or describing a scene.
Practice German vocabulary focusing on words that start with c and d, including café, computer, der, die, das, and practical phrases for asking for help, ordering coffee, and discussing rooms.
Explore German vocabulary and phrases with words starting with d and e, including der drucker, durch die tür, dürfen, die einladung, der eintritt, der eingang, and emails.
Explore German vocabulary focusing on words with e and f, including farbe, blau, essen, film, feiertag, feiern, and erklären, for beginner learners.
Explore German vocabulary with f words and phrases, such as dürfen, fragen, die Frau, der Freund, die Freizeit, Fußball, and museum contexts.
Explore German words that begin with g, including geld, gewicht, geschenk, gespräch, geburtstag, geboren, with examples like ich koche gerne.
Explore German vocabulary with g and h words, including home terms and birthday expressions. Learn phrases such as herzlichen glückwunsch zum geburtstag, viele grüsse, zu hause, und das haus.
Learn german words with the letter h, from greetings like guten morgen to nouns such as hilfe, hotel, hund, hoch, hochzeit, turm, ausgang, hobby, and helles licht.
Explore essential German vocabulary featuring i and j words, such as ich, in, information, internet, jacke, junger/jugendlicher, and bahnhof, with everyday phrases about school, city, and daily life.
Explore german vocabulary with words starting with k, such as kino, kiosk, kleidung, kindergarten, klein, kennenlernen, and phrases like können wir mit credit card bezahlen.
Learn German vocabulary focused on words that begin with l, including lang, langsam, leben, licht, lieber, and laufen, with examples like fahren wir mit dem auto oder laufen wir.
Explore German vocabulary focused on words starting with l and m, including liebling, lied, lustig, der mann, mit, mitnehmen, mitmachen, and mehr for everyday use.
Learn German words starting with m and n, including middle concepts and phrases like would you like something to drink, I make sparkling water.
Master German vocabulary focused on o- and p- words, including ordnung, papier, partnerin, pause, plan, polizei, geöffnet, and related everyday phrases for beginners.
Learn German vocabulary with words starting r and s, including rechnung, reparatur, rechts, restaurants, strasse, rezeption, schloss, and practice sentences.
Explore German vocabulary focused on words with s, including schule, schüler, schreiben, schwimmen, schlüssel, schuh, and sehenswürdigkeiten. Build beginner confidence with practical usage and daily context.
Learn German vocabulary with words starting with s in this second lesson, practice sprechen, and explore topics like sport, die sprache, und studieren for beginners.
Explore German words that start with t, using examples like text, telephone, trinken, and toilette to build recognition and reading practice.
Explore words with u and v in German by practicing common prepositions like über, um, and unter through practical examples such as über die straße and unter dem sofa.
Master german vocabulary focusing on words that start with w, including wasser, wetter, welt, and wiederholen, with phrases like wir haben kein wasser.
Learn German vocabulary and pronunciation of words starting with w and z, including greetings, travel phrases, everyday items, and contextual examples from the caption.
Welcome to my course!
The focus of this course is being able to understand German and express yourself in German on a beginner (A1) to elementary (A2) level in line with the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). We will cover all the vocabulary, grammar and phrases that you need.
After an introductory section we will work with very simple sentences straight away, and then you will learn the German grammar along these sentences.
The lectures are mostly bite-sized and have visuals to help you remember all the new things you learn.
For each topic there are lectures that solely contain examples. You will also find practice lectures, quizzes, exercises (e.g. translations, sentence building) and downloadable material including vocabulary sheets, grammar overviews and additional exercises, which you can find by clicking on the 'Resources' buttons in the Course Overview on the right side of the video player.
Later into the course, you will find a complete collection of all A1 vocabulary additionally to the vocabulary in the lectures.
At the end of the course, you can check your progress by taking a big final test that covers the whole course content.
This course will greatly support you in taking your first steps in German, and eventually understand and speak the language.
All the best,
Your Course Instructor Esther