Beginner
125 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
Every German noun is masculine, feminine or neuter: meet 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
Meet the main German plural patterns, the plural article die for every gender, and 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, when the noun doesn't change, and choose er, sie, es or plural sie to replace a noun.
Review: Pronouns, Sein, Gender & Articles
Mixed practice on greetings, du, ihr and Sie, the verb sein, 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
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in this unit (Sein, Articles & Nouns), then take a short unit quiz.
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