German

Course details

Why Should You Learn New Language?
Speaking a new language helps you to get to know another people and culture, as language and culture go hand in hand. Because language simultaneously defines and is defined by the world around us, learning another language opens one's mind to new ideas and new ways of looking at the world.
Designed for:
Learner who has no prior knowledge of the language and would like to understand and speak basic phrases and wants to understand familiar words and very common expressions and to interact in a simple way.
Course Overview:
German - Beginners
Topics & Vocabulary

• Greetings and farewells
• Introductions
• Formal and informal ways of addressing people; forms of courtesy
• Questions and answers regarding well-being and personal information ( name, place of birth, address, email, place of residence, telephone number, marital status, children etc.)
• Alphabet and numbers
• Family and friends
• Shopping (groceries)
• Describing houses and flats, furniture and appliances - likes and dislikes
• Colors

Grammar

• Basic questions statements and negatives- including questions with question words and yes/no questions
• Personal pronouns (Nominativ)
• You - formal and informal
• Verb endings (conjugation) of regular and some irregular verbs in the present tense (vowel change)
• Basic word order - statements, questions
• Singular and plural
• Gender: masculine, feminine, neuter
• Definite and indefinite articles / possessive articles
• Negation
• Numbers/ Alphabet

Updated on 21 July, 2020