
Start your German for beginners with a step-by-step A1 course that blends reading, writing, speaking, and listening through interactive lessons on everyday topics and colorful mind maps.
Learn German because it is widely spoken in Europe, open for travel and business opportunities, access to German internet for blogging, and the chance to study in Germany for free.
Use a color-coded system to learn German noun genders—blue masculine, red feminine, green nighttime, yellow plurals—and practice listening, reading, writing, and speaking through discourse and home activities.
Use mind mapping to organize ideas visually, with a central idea, branches, colors, and symbols, transforming thoughts into memorable notes you can speak about later.
Master the German alphabet and the rules for writing and reading to improve speaking. Engage in fast and slow recitations and repeated spelling exercises with Tamara.
Master German pronunciation by learning letter groups and rules that alter sound from written form, practice with examples and a final dictation to reinforce correct articulation.
Learn to introduce yourself in german, describe a person, and say where they come from or live, using family and friends as your context.
Learn German greetings for beginners: say hello, good day, good afternoon, good morning, good evening, and goodbye in formal and informal contexts, with basic phrases like hi and guten tag.
Learn to introduce yourself and others in German, ask for personal information using informal and formal forms, and say 'my name is' or 'this is' with the verb to be.
Practice asking where you come from and where you live using the German verb kommen and its endings.
Master German basics by learning sentence types, verb placement in the second position, and handling irregular verbs, wh questions, and yes-no questions with practical language examples.
Learn German family vocabulary, plural noun forms, and simple possession with mein and dein, while practicing introductions and describing who is in your family.
Master reading and pronouncing German numbers, including the rule that the last number goes first for numbers above twenty, and use them for age, address, and phone numbers.
Explore practical German food vocabulary by describing your fridge, planning breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, shopping in a supermarket, and ordering, paying, and understanding questions in a restaurant.
Learn basic German grocery vocabulary and essential grammar: using indefinite articles ein, eine, or kein, and negation to describe food, bread, fruits, and vegetables.
Learn what’s in the fridge and what you need to buy, and how to use the accusative with haben, while building a vocabulary of vegetables, fruits, and drinks.
Express preferences for food and drink in German by using essen and trinken, noting irregular conjugation in the second and third person singular and the verb-second word order.
Practice restaurant dialogues and essential vocabulary for beginners, with repeat-after-me reading and key nouns, verbs, and phrases for guests and a waitress, including ordering and paying.
Explore how to talk about money and costs in German, including asking what it costs in everyday situations like in a restaurant or supermarket.
Learn to express weights, mass, and height in German with practical examples—from a bottle of juice and a can of Coke to a cup of coffee—using kilos and common units.
Describe your home, whether in a house or apartment, detailing the place, rooms, and furniture while practicing basic German descriptions for beginners in module four.
Learn how German definite and indefinite articles change with gender and number when describing rooms in the home. Compare to English usage and note that plural uses no indefinite article.
Explore essential German furniture vocabulary for beginners (A1), and learn to describe rooms in your home with singular and plural forms, colors, and accusative phrases.
Learn how to say where you live in German through dialogues and examples of living in a house with a garden or a city center apartment.
Learn to tell time in German, identify parts of the day and days of the week, and describe daily activities at a beginner A1 level.
Learn how to tell time in German, using informal and formal forms, describe hours, minutes, quarters and halves, and practice with phrases for everyday conversations.
Explore parts of the day in German and how to describe habitual actions at morning, noon, and evening using phrases like morgens, mittags, and abends.
Learn the names of the days in German and how to talk about weekly routines, ask what you are doing on a day, and describe a typical workweek.
Learn to describe daily routines in German using separable-prefix verbs and correct word order. Practice telling time, days of the week, and how often you perform activities.
Learn to describe your day in German by answering daily routine questions, such as when you get up, watch TV, and what you do on weekends.
Explore your free time, hobbies, and what you like to do, linking them to daily routines, and learn how to talk about activities in the classroom.
Explore hobbies in the German for beginners A1 course, learn to name activities, express 'my hobby is', and use the modal können with the infinitive.
Learn to discuss free time in German, ask about others' activities, and express likes using mögen and infinitive forms, while practicing verb-second order and pronunciation.
Learn to talk about the weather in German at the beginner A1 level. Practice writing and speaking about weather questions to build confidence in German communication.
Explore the past with the perfect tense as you describe yesterday, and learn to ask for and understand directions to hotels, stations, restaurants, schools, and museums in a new town.
Learn how to form the German perfect tense using haben or sein, with a two-verb structure and main verb at the end, including regular, irregular, and motion verbs.
Learn to say dates in German, including today and yesterday, the days and months, and practice forms of sein and haben and the perfect tense in everyday speech.
Describe how to ask for directions and provide directions in a new town, using useful vocabulary and phrases like 'excuse me' and 'what is this' to navigate unfamiliar places.
Explore city vocabulary, identify buildings, and describe locations using German local prepositions. Practice nominative and dative forms with masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns to say where things are.
Describe your city by detailing its buildings, colors, and sizes, and the position of your church and school. Write a short text about your town and read it aloud.
Learn social rules in a foreign country, pronounce and understand their meanings, explore your profession and earnings, and master health vocabulary, emergency calls, and essential medical questions.
Learn to discuss professions in German, ask and answer questions about your job, where you work, and how long you have worked, and apply gender endings and dative plural rules.
Explore essential German administrative vocabulary, including driver's license and forms, and master modal verbs and imperatives for singular, plural, and formal speech.
Learn German health vocabulary and basic doctor visit conversations, including symptoms, medicines, and scheduling appointments, plus possessive pronoun endings with masculine, feminine, and plural nouns.
Learn to describe a person’s appearance and character, talk about celebrations and congratulations, and discuss personal plans, goals, and future wishes.
Describe five people's appearance and character in German, using nominative and accusative forms, comparative and superlative structures, and the mind map for homework and speaking practice.
Learn common German celebration phrases for birthdays, Easter, Christmas, and New Year. Practice nominative and accusative pronouns in family greetings.
Learn to express wishes, plans, and goals in German for beginners, with examples like I want to be a singer or actor and guidance on using infinitives at sentence end.
You would like to learn German but don't know how and where to start?
You think that you need talent for language learning but there isn't any?
You wish there was a fun and easy way to do it and hopefully you'll find one?
Well, you did. This is THE course in which you'll get all you need for communicating on German. And guess what? You don't need any talent at all.
My name is Tamara and I am a German language teacher with more than 10 years of experience in online and offline teaching. There are hunderts of students who have attended my classes, passed the exams or finished the program and now work in Germany or teach German language themselves.
Why would you attend this course, you may ask yourself?
Here you will find step by step guide for learning the most useful and practical topics and skills for every day life.
I tend to combine logic, tables and rules with creative, colourful and unusual design and ideas for learning. So that you can get the most out of it using both hemispheres of the brain - both logical and creative.
The course is very interactive, combining all 4 skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking, so that you can be well prepared for taking exam (if that is your goal).
There are video and classroom style lessons, pdfs of all lessons, assignments and challenges for you, so that you can check your progress after every module.
I tend to use MindMaps as a very practical tool for learning and there is a big chance that it will be your next new and best thing for learning EVERYTHING!
I believe that everyone can learn everything. I've prepared very well organised path for mastering the beginner level or a1 of German language and if you follow my guidance, path and introductions, you will get the expected results. The best thing on Udemy is that once you buy this course, you'll have it forever. And it means that you can repeat it whenever you want.
Let's have some fun in learning German language together! Let's get started! See you in the classroom. Bis dann.