Beginner
127 self-paced lessons: Sein and haben, der/die/das and noun plurals, the sounds of German, present-tense verbs and modal verbs, questions, word order, the accusative, numbers, time and everyday conversations.
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Greetings, Subject Pronouns & Sein, Part 1 of 2
Say hello and goodbye at any time of day, ask how someone is, give your name, and meet the German words for I, you, he, she, we and they.
Greetings, Subject Pronouns & Sein, Part 2 of 2
Conjugate "sein" (to be) in every person to say who you are, where you're from and what you do.
Dialogue Lab: Das erste Treffen
Follow two first conversations, one with a fellow student and one with a new boss, and choose between "du" and "Sie".
Gender & Articles, Part 1 of 2
Tell masculine, feminine and neuter nouns apart with "der", "die", "das" and "ein", "eine", and use "er", "sie", "es" for things as well as people.
Gender & Articles, Part 2 of 2
Guess "der", "die" or "das" from a noun's ending, find the gender of compound nouns, and learn the exceptions worth memorising.
Noun Plurals: An Overview
Form plurals with the main German patterns and the plural article "die" for every gender, and know why -s is the exception rather than the rule.
Contrast Clinic: Der, Die, Das or Plural Die?
Tell singular from plural when the article is "die" or the noun doesn't change, and choose "er", "sie", "es" or plural "sie" to replace a noun.
Review: Pronouns, Sein, Gender & Articles
Check you can greet people, choose "du", "ihr" or "Sie", use "sein", and handle "der", "die", "das", "ein", "eine" and plurals before adjectives arrive.
Error Hunt: Pronouns, Sein & Articles
Diagnose and fix the classic beginner mistakes with "sein", articles, capital letters, plurals and "du" versus "Sie".
Describing with Sein + Adjective
Describe people and things with "sein" and an adjective, which never changes after "sein", and soften or strengthen it with "sehr", "ziemlich", "zu" and "ganz".
Transformations: Make It Plural, Change the Person
Change one thing in a sentence (the person, the number, the gender) and update every article, pronoun and verb that depends on it.
Spiral Review: Sein, Articles & Adjectives
Bring the whole unit together: introduce people from photos, say what they do and where they're from, and describe them and their things.
Unit 1 review: Sein, Articles & Nouns
Practise what you learned in this unit (Sein, Articles & Nouns): understand and write down what you hear, speak and write with it, then take a short unit quiz.
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