
Welcome to the fifth part of my course "German for beginners"!
Practise the past tense of regular and irregular verbs.
This is a short story containing past participles which look like they are formed with "ge + infinitive".
Translate these sentences to practise the personal pronouns.
Learn how to say the seasons in German as well as some activities that can be done in spring, summer, fall and winter.
Listen to this short children's song about the four seasons. :)
Let's practise the imperfect tense of the modal verbs and "to have" and "to be".
Learn the vocabulary related to travels and vacations to prepare for the next lessons.
1000 Kilometer bis zum Meer - It'a vacation time!
Here, we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of traveling by plane, train, coach and car.
Learn the ordinal numbers and how to say the date in German!
The past tense: A weekend in Berlin
Write sentences saying how long Melanie stays in which city, when and how she travels to the next city etc. Write all the dates out in letters.
Here is another song for the topic "Urlaub" - it's about "Westerland", a seaside resort on the island of Sylt, in the German North Sea.
Wo machst du am liebsten Urlaub? In der Stadt, auf dem Land, am Strand oder in den Bergen? Was kann man dort machen?
This is a dialogue about hotel reservations.
Call a hotel in Berlin and reserve a double room.
This course will give you a stable foundation for your endeavour of learning German.
In video lessons, I will guide you through lectures which are clearly structured, building up on each other and versatile, including not only grammar explanations, but also a lot of video-guided exercises, vocabulary, additional information.
This fifth part will focus mostly on conversation and vocabulary, topics include the seasons, traveling, hotel reservations, giving directions, post cards, at the restaurant, understanding a menu in German, at a museum, arranging meetings, talking on the phone and at the library.
You will learn about the ordinal numbers and how to say the date, we will see the n-declension, the imperative, the infinitive with "zu", positions and movements, composed nouns and do more exercises on the past tense.
Should questions come up while learning with my course, please feel free to ask me, I will be happy to answer them.
After completing parts 1 - 5 of the course, you should be able to complete the A1 exam. The levels A2 and B1 are available on my website.