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241 self-paced lessons: The Perfekt and Präteritum, the dative case, reflexive verbs, two-way prepositions, adjective endings, weil/dass clauses, the future and survival situations from restaurants to the Bürgeramt.
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The Perfekt with Haben, Part 1 of 2
Talk about the past with "haben" + a participle: "ich habe gemacht", "du hast gekauft", "wir haben gespielt".
Pattern Practice: Ich habe gemacht, du hast gemacht
Drill one frame through all six persons until "habe", "hast", "hat", "haben", "habt", "haben" + ge-...-t comes automatically.
The Sentence Bracket: Hat ... gemacht
Put the auxiliary in second place and the participle at the very end, with everything else in between.
The Perfekt with Haben, Part 2 of 2
Add -et to stems ending in -t, -d or a hard consonant cluster ("gearbeitet", "gewartet", "geöffnet"), and place events with past time markers.
Negation and Questions in the Perfekt
Say what you didn't do with "nicht" and "kein", and ask yes/no and W-questions in the Perfekt, with "doch" to contradict.
Schon, Noch nicht, Gestern: Adverbs in the Perfekt
Fit "schon", "noch nicht", "noch nie", "lange" and time words inside the sentence bracket.
Dialogue Lab: Wie war dein Wochenende?
Monday-morning small talk at work: ask about the weekend, tell what you did and react.
Error Hunt: -t, -et and Missing Participles
Find and fix the typical Perfekt slips: wrong endings, the infinitive instead of the participle, misplaced participles and a missing auxiliary.
Build-Up: A Saturday in Five Steps
Grow one Perfekt sentence step by step: verb, time marker, adverb, object and negation, then link two sentences.
Capital Letters: Nouns, Sie, sie and Ihr
Capitalise every noun (including verbs used as nouns), and tell "Sie" from "sie" and "Ihr" from "ihr" in messages and emails.
Practice: Last Weekend
Put the whole unit together in messages and short conversations about last weekend.
Unit 1 review: The Perfekt with Haben
Practise what you learned in this unit (The Perfekt with Haben): understand and write down what you hear, speak and write with it, then take a short unit quiz.
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