
Meet Kiran, a German language expert with 12 years of corporate training, as he guides a CEFR-based course split into communication, written, and business German to boost confidence in speaking.
Master German conversational past by comparing it with English, exploring present and past participles and the use of sein and haben, and practicing daily routine sentences across five sections.
Explore an overview of English tenses, detailing present, past, and future forms with four aspects and examples of simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous.
Explore the six German tenses—simple present, present perfect, simple past, past perfect, simple future, and future perfect—and why German lacks continuous forms in speech, with spoken versus written use.
Compare English and German tenses, noting English's twelve tenses and German's six. Learn to speak the German conversational past tense using present and present perfect.
Explore German verbs, including common daily routine verbs, regular and irregular forms, the lowercase start of verbs, and the infinitive ending with -en, with examples like gehen and sprechen.
Learn 20 to 25 common German daily routine verbs, such as aufstehen, gehen, duschen, frühstücken, lesen, arbeiten, kaufen, and access meanings quickly with dict.cc.
Explore regular and irregular verbs in English, including past tense and past participle forms with examples like go, went, gone, and bought.
Master regular and irregular German verbs, understand past tense and participles, and use practical tips to guess forms with examples like gehen, kommen, nehmen, lernen, spielen, arbeiten.
Master the conversational past by exploring Partizip I and Partizip II, their use with sein and haben, and how present and past participles form perfect tenses, adjectives, adverbs, and passive voice.
Explore the English present perfect tense, used for actions started in the past with present relevance and recent past, and learn the have and has plus past participle structure.
Learn the construction of the German present perfect tense, formed with haben or sein plus the past participle. Understand its role as the conversational past used in spoken German.
Learn when to use sein or haben in the German present perfect. Movement or change of state requires sein, while other verbs use haben, with examples.
Identify exceptions to the sein rule in German present perfect, focusing on bleiben, werden, and sein, and learn how their past participles and helping-verb usage differs.
Practice the conversational past tense for statements and questions by converting English to present perfect and into German, using ich habe mit Laura gesprochen and hast du mit Laura gesprochen.
Explore the conversational past tense by applying logic to statements and questions, converting English present perfect to German with haben or sein, word order, and formal versus informal usage.
Explore how online translator tools render conversational past tense in German, focusing on present perfect usage, haben and sein, with examples like sprechen, fahren, arbeiten, and aufstehen.
Learn how separable verbs work in German, with prefixes that change meaning, through examples like anrufen, ankommen, and aufstehen, and practice past tense with sein and haben using present perfect.
Master German conversational past tense by mastering inseparable verbs and their prefixes, noting no ge- in past participles, with examples like erhalten, bestellen, and telefonieren.
Practice the present perfect conversational past with daily routine sentences, using haben or sein plus past participles, noting movement verbs take sein and key exceptions.
Enhance your German conversational past tense by practicing daily routine sentences, mastering past participles, helping verbs haben and sein, and separable versus inseparable verb patterns.
Explore the past tense of helping verbs and modal verbs, practice conjugations of sein and haben in direct past, and express events in spoken German for writing contexts.
Master German conversational past by practicing past tense sentences with helping verbs, including haben and sein, in the simple past used in spoken German, and explore modal verbs.
Learn German past tense with modal verbs, including dürfen, können, mögen, müssen, sollen, and wollen, using te endings and umlaut rules; first- and third-person forms share the same past tense.
Practice past tense sentences with modal verbs in spoken German. Learn that modal verbs conjugate to the subject and the main verb moves to the end in infinitive form.
Advance your German conversational past mastery by consolidating essential skills and a solid base, and leave reviews to guide future learners and topics like verbs, cases, tenses, and A1 prep.
Greetings Student!
My name is Kiran and I will be your guide through the secrets of the German language. Welcome to the course “SIMPLIFYING GERMAN SPEAKING: MASTERING GERMAN PAST TENSE”!
This course is for you if:
- You have good knowledge on Basic concepts of German and good knowledge on German Present Tense
- You prefer concise and focused lessons on German Conversational Past Tense
- You want to learn and explore English and German Verbs (Regular and Irregular Verbs)
- You want to speak confidently statements and questions with German Conversational Past Tense
- You want to know how online translator tools work in English to German and German to English translation in German Conversational Past Tense
- You want to do the SPEAKING PRACTICE with DAILY ROUTINE verbs and sentences for in German Conversational Past Tense
- You seek personalized feedback and guidance through assignments
- You aim is to succeed in speaking German language and get success in German exams (such as the Goethe exam)
How does it work?
This course mirrors the structure of my individual German lessons, resembling the personal sessions I conduct with my students in person. Comprising 5 sections, each centred on a specific theme, every section features between 5 to 7 individual lessons, with most lessons lasting between 5 to 10 minutes. The content is thoughtfully divided into easily digestible, bite-sized pieces.
You receive a practical vocabulary, sample sentences, and grammar explanations presented in a clear and approachable manner, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
Following each section, you'll engage in an exercise, allowing you to immediately apply and practice your newfound knowledge.
Additionally, there are assignments in which you'll receive feedback and guidance from me, ensuring you understand what aspects to review or be mindful of.
Should you have any further inquiries, don't hesitate to reach out to me before making your purchase!
Looking forward to seeing you in the course! :)