German for Absolute Beginners

Name: German for Absolute Beginners
Rating: 4.7 (871 reviews)

TPRS and CI course

Created byKathrin Hudelmayer

Last updated 3/2021

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What you'll learn

You'll get an introduction to the German language
You can introduce yourself in German
a couple of countries and languages

Course content

3 sections • 12 lectures • 1h 1m total length

Introduction to me and this course2:23
Is this course really the right fit for you? And am I the right teacher for you?
We'll answer those questions and find out what you'll learn in this course.
In addition to this video:
I'm using technics like TPRS (total physical response and storytelling) and CI (somprehensible input), but not exclusively. Not every video is a story!
Please also note that TPRS is hard if you are an absolute beginner and have no vocabulary what so ever. Therefore I won't start with stories right away!
The same goes for reading and writing. Please feel free to copy the written parts or to write out sentences if that's importent for you. But as my focus is on listening - understanding - speaking there aren't excersises where reading and/or writing is necessary.
How to get most out of this course1:52
Wo spricht man deutsch? - Where is German spoken?4:07
In this lesson I'll show you where in this world German is spoken. And we're also going to learn your first German words: those countries in German.
Die deutsche Schrift - the German Writing System4:02
This lesson is a quick introduction to our script and the letters Ä, Ö, Ü and ß.
Quick learners will also get the next few vocabs served.
Großschreibung und Artikel - Capitalization and articles4:55
Case sensitivity is much more importent in German then it is in English.
We capitalize all nouns. There is also the pronoun "Sie" which is the formal version of you.
IN ADDITION TO THE VIDEO I want to say: We also capitalize at the beginning of each sentence.
In German we use 3 genders for nouns. The articles are "der" (masculin), "die" (feminin) and "das" (neutral)
IN ADDITION TO THE VIDEO I want to say: Plural nouns always use "die" as an article, no matter the gender in the singular form.
Test your background knowledge about the German language

Sich vorstellen (Name) - Introduce yourself (name)4:40
Get started with this little introduction in German.
Start by just listening and watching the video. What do you understand?
Then you can go ahead and take the skript.
Read the German part (maybe while watching the video again) and check with the english skript if you understood the sentence correctly. Feel free to pause often or repeat the video a few times.
Highlight the vocabs that are importent to you.
Listen to the video a few more times and start to speak along.
Feel free to work with this video as long as you want to and in any way that helps you.
TPRS-Story: Ich bin ich7:22
In this video I'm explaining how you can work with TPRS storys.
Listen to your first story in German. Repeat the vocabs from last video and learn a few more.
This story is based on a book called "Das kleine Ich bin Ich".
Die Zahlen - the numbers6:19
This video is a "run through" the German counting sytem.
I'm going to teach you the numbers 1-12 and the rules on how to form any number up to 100.
Spiele Zahlen-BINGO - Play number-BINGO4:33
I like to play BINGO to repeat vocabs of all topics. But especially with numbers BINGO is such a perfect game.
Let's play together.
Lerne die Farben - learn the colors6:28
This video teaches you the first 6 colors while using flags. Therefore you can also repeat the country names.
TPRS-Story: der Regenbogen - the rainbow9:25
This TPRS-story is designed to repeat and deepen the topic of the colors.
I'm aware that you won't get everything I'm saying and I know that you don't know all the words I'm using.
That's normal in TPRS.
The key and goal is, to be able to follow the story. You're going to hear your vocabs again and again. You'll hear the same sentence structures again and again. Maybe you'll even listen to the story again and again, emembering more words each time you're listening. (And maybe even pick up a few new words on the way).
Those stories are also very good to come back to after a few months. You'll probably be able to understand a lot more and can follow a lot easier. That's the best way to make your prograss visible!

Test what you've learned - Teste, was du gelernt hast
Bonuslektion: 5 tips on how to continue learning German5:10
How can you continue your German learning?
In this video I give you five different ideas on what your neext steps can be.
Be sure to turn at least one into action right now, so you won't forget or find something "more important" to do.
If you want to coninue learning German, take the next step now.

Requirements

no, this course is for absolute beginners
to print the additional material, you might want to have a printer

Description

This course is the perfect introduction to the German language.

You learn about the German language and skript itself.
You learn to introduce yourself
You learn the colors and numbers
You learn from dialoges and stories that use repetition and variation to give you the best possibility to remember the words.
You get the scripts to those stories both in German and English
You get color page of my "Interactive Picture Dictionary" which makes sure you use more then one sense to remember words.
You get links to additional input

And the ebst thing is that's all for free!

Test for FREE if German is the language for you
Test for FREE if TPRS and CI are the methods for you
Test for FREE if I'm the right teacher for you

And if you're really sure about it, then you can start with my complete Absolute Beginner Course while getting 25% off.

I use TPRS (total-physical-response and storytelling) as well as other CI-methods (comprehensible input). Therefore it's just like watching fun and entertaining videos and playing games. Learning German will be something that happens naturally.

It's important for me that German is fun with up-to-date and useful phrases. Therefore there aren't any boring exersices where you need to fill out worksheets or memorize extremely formal sentences.

We focus on listening, comprehending and speaking, rather than reading, writing and grammar.

You will still ahve the chance to start reading and writing as we go along the course. It's just not something I'm teaching.

In conclusion this course works for the whole family and even kids can follow (most) of the videos and lessons.

Who this course is for:

You want to test if German is "the language for you"?
You don't like grammar
You want to learn with comprehensible Input
You want to learn German naturally
You like to listen to stories
Your focus is on understanding and talking rather then reading and writing

German for Absolute Beginners

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Course content

Introduction to German5 lectures • 17min

Jump start your German6 lectures • 39min

Abschluss des Kurses - end of course1 lecture • 5min

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