Learn German for Beginners:An Immersive Language Journey A1+
What you'll learn
- Students will have a basic understanding of the German language. They will know most of the important grammar as well as many words and ready-made sentences for confident usage.
Requirements
- This course is taught through the medium of English. You need a fairly good English proficiency in order to truly benefit from the course. If you are a beginner in English, you will inevitably struggle to keep up with the teaching.
- You need a computer or mobile phone with functioning video and audio as well as a stable internet connection.
Description
In this course, your teacher Sonja will guide you through important Grammar and lots of words and example phrases, all nicely visualised by colourful and animated texts and icons.
Interactive Role Play Tasks: Here you will face multiple real-world challenges where you get the chance to build sentences, using commonly used phrases and expressions, in order to hold up a conversation.
Personal Teacher Feedback: Ask any German related questions and your teacher will reply to them personally.
A personal journal: Practice vocabulary and learn new words by filling in the gaps in your Germanix travel journey entries. Guided solutions and explanations of sentence structure are provided.
Small quizzes and exercises: These are for easy and quick repetition and check-up on what you've retained.
A fellow student: Bosco, your classmate, who is in fact a real student, will learn at the same time with you and ask questions you might also have.
Travel videos: After completion of the course, you will see your teacher in a more personal environment showing you around the amazing city of Berlin and giving advice on different travel or language-related topics.
"The explanation is clear and crisp. Creative teaching concept and highly interactive. I feel like I’m learning with her in real life not just watching the lessons online. A great course for a beginner like me!" - Le Viet Hang
With this German language course, you will jump in at the deep end of language learning and the amount of content covered will be enormous. It has been designed in a way to stray away from standard language teaching, by making it interactive, entertaining and simply realistic. This course is suitable for complete beginners as well as people with already some knowledge of German. To make your journey really exciting, you will follow a storyline throughout the course and enjoy many complimentary extras.
This course will be constantly updated and expanded and you can contact your teacher any time if you have questions or need further clarification or even if you have built some sentences and want them checked.
Let's make language learning fun and exciting. Enjoy your virtual exposure and jump right in! :)
"Amazing course! One thing that makes this course great is how you get more natural learning experiences with the journals, the journey videos, and when you travel with Sonja to Berlin at the end. I hope to see another more advanced course that builds upon the skills in this one with even more cultural insights from Sonja." - Adam Schlag
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who is interested in the German language and still at the very beginning of their language learning journey. Intermediate students can also profit from countless features of the course as it does get quite intense towards the end.
Course content
- Preview01:13
- 06:48Lesson 01 - Greetings
- Preview15:19
- 16:55Lesson 03 - Letter Combinations
- 10 questionsPronunciation Quiz: CH - hard or soft?
- Preview06:07
- 06:46(Practice) Pronunciation Training 1
- 05:10(Practice) Pronunciation Training 2
- Preview07:50
- 10 questions(Exercises) Choose the correct personal pronouns
- Preview09:25
- 10 questions(Exercises) Question words - which fits best?
- Preview05:07
- 5 questions(Exercises) Fill in the missing gap of each Verb
- Preview06:07
- 10 questions(Exercises) Inversion yes or no?
- Preview05:19
- Preview08:12
- 5 questions(Exercises) Calculation exercises
- Preview09:10
- 10 questions(Exercises) "kein" oder "nicht"?
- 05:08Lesson 11 - Adjectives and Adverbs
- 08:21Lesson 12 - Formal and Informal
- 12:44Lesson 13 - Modal Verbs (you can, you should, you must)
- 05:34Lesson 14 - Asking for Help
- 12:19Lesson 15 - Eating and Drinking
- Preview08:37
- 10 questions(Exercises) Test your Akkusativ skills
- 00:44Journal Entry One (Written comprehension practice)
- Preview12:33
Instructors
Germanix Learning focuses on developing gamified language learning experiences which are immersive, story-driven and entertaining.
Learning a new language is a long journey. While not everyone has the luxury to travel to other countries to experience language immersion, a simulated journey would be a good substitution where learners can immerse themselves in an adventure with the objective of practicing real life situations and challenges.
This leads to a more engaged learning experience that facilitates better knowledge retention.
I am a professional foreign language teacher, specialising in my mother tongue German. I have had the pleasure of teaching in different countries and have worked with students of many different nationalities. I myself have successfully learned several foreign languages on my own from zero to a fluent level and therefore can feel with my students and understand very well where they might struggle. Over the years I think I have figured out some ways how to best learn a foreign language, no matter what level one is at. In my online courses I am trying to implement these personal experiences and tricks in order to give my students a very different learning experience compared to what they might probably be used to.
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