
The class project includes all 10 vocabulary lists and 10 exercises for you to practise the new vocabulary of each text.
Try using the new vocabulary to describe your own country, events and habits.
Explore the Oktoberfest, the world’s biggest folk festival in Munich, featuring beer in mass, Bavarian food, and traditional dirndl and lederhosen. Read aloud, discuss vocabulary, and review the quiz questions.
Learn festival vocabulary and traditions, including Oktoberfest and Volksfest, clothing like dirndl, and pronunciation practice, plus a note on separable verbs with stattfinden for 'takes place'.
Discover the schultüte, a colorful cone given on the first day of school in Germany, filled with sweets and gifts. Learn about its Ostdeutschland origins and practice related vocabulary.
Learn essential German weather vocabulary, including der Frühling, der Sommer, der Herbst, der Winter, and temperatures between minus five and six Grad Celsius.
Practice pronunciation and recognition of German vocabulary for brot sorten (bread varieties) by listening to and repeating the words aloud, reinforcing listening and reading skills.
Explore Berlin as Germany's capital and discover landmarks like the East Side Gallery, Brandenburger Tor, Checkpoint Charlie, and Reichstag. Learn German and English vocabulary and history.
Explore typical German dialects, their dialect groups, and standard German; learn which regions speak Bavarian, Saxon, Hessian, and Berlin dialects, and how Austria and Switzerland use their own dialects.
Explore Hamburg's urban landscape, including the Elbe river, Speicherstadt, Miniatur Wunderland, Elbphilharmonie, and major landmarks like Sankt Michaelis and Reeperbahn, through listening and reading.
Herzlich willkommen zu diesem Deutschkurs!
I'm Lysann and I'll be your German teacher guiding you through this course.
You will find 10 texts teaching you many interesting facts about the Germans. I will read out loud every single text for you, followed by explaining it’s translation sentence by sentence and even word by word. There is a little quiz for you at the end of each text to test your knowledge after finishing with the translations.
With this course you can improve your listening and reading comprehension, while learning fun facts about the country. You will find all bolded words in an attached vocabulary list and I will read out loud all German words on the list twice so you can listen to their pronounciation and parctice along with me. This course is for you if you like to learn more about the German culture, like to read and listen to short texts, want to improve your German reading and listening comprehension and vocabulary skills. To have best learning results I would recommend you to take this course when you have a level around A2 or above. I really hope you will enjoy this course and I’m sure that you’ll learn new and interesting things about the Germans.
Here is a list with the 10 videos you'll see in this course:
Wissenswertes über Deutschland/Interesting facts about Germany
Feste und Feiertage: Das Oktoberfest/Festivals and events: The Oktoberfest
Typisch Deutsch: Die Schultüte/Typical German: The schoolbag
Deutschlandwetter/weather in Germany
Eine Wohnung in der Großstadt/An apartment in a big city
Feste und Feiertage: Karneval/Festivals and events: Carnival
Made in Germany: Brotsorten/Made in Germany: Types of bread
Stadtwissen: Berlin/City knowledge: Berlin
Typisch Deutsch: Dialekte/Typical German: Dialects
Stadtwissen: Hamburg/City knowledge: Hamburg