German for beginners (A1 - Part 1/5)

In this video, you will learn your first dialogue and I will show you how many German words you can actually already understand.

“MfG” is short for “Mit freundlichen Grüßen” (“With friendly greetings”), which is a very common formula used at the end of an email or letter. The abbreviation can be used in informal written communication. Apart from “MfG”, this song contains many other abbreviations and is great to review the German alphabet. Download the pdf and read along. They sing, really, really fast, and even for Germans, it is hard to sing along, but why don’t you just give it a try!?

In this video, I will give you some tips on how to best remember the three German genders, masculine, feminine and neuter.

Listening to German radio stations is a great way to get familiarized with the sounds of the language, even if you do not understand everything. Here is a list of some Berlin radio stations that you can listen to online.

For those of you who are not so sure about the meaning of basic grammar terms, this pdf might come in handy. Please, don’t learn these pages by heart, just skim them now and then use them as a reference when necessary.

In this video, I will teach you the German personal pronouns in the nominative case. Ich - du - er / sie / es - wir - ihr - sie. Enjoy!

In this video, I will teach you how to conjugate the regular verbs.

In this video, we will do an exercise and apply the rules of the conjugation of regular verbs.

In this video, you will see some example dialogues for informal and formal language as well as learn about the question "Wie geht es dir?" and its answer.

In this video, I will teach you some alternatives to the answer "Gut!".

What you need to focus on in this song is the chorus. Listen to "Es geht mir gut" a couple of times and you will never forget that rather complicated sentence construction any more :) Listen to it on Youtube or Deezer.

Now, you will learn about the most important one out of 4 German cases - the nominative case! You will see the what the nominative does to the articles.

This is another exercise to review the personal pronouns and the conjugation of regular verbs. Enjoy!

After knowing the articles of nouns in the nominative case, let's have a look at adjectives and their endings.

A first exercise on the nominative will help you memorise the forms of the definite and indefinite articles as well as the adjectives.

Learn how to say: "This is..." with masculine, feminine and neuter nouns (including adjectives).

This file is your homework in which you can review everything we have seen so far about the nominative case. Download the file and check your answers against the answer sheet.

Do you remember the nominative forms that we learned in our last lesson? This is a review :)

Vocabulary test: Do you remember the regular verbs we have seen so far?

In this video, you will learn how to conjugate the verbs "to have" and "to be" in German.

How do you ask questions in German? I will tell you in this video :)

Another song :) Pay attention to the question word "warum".

This time, we will do an exercise on the nominative case in the singular and in the plural.

It is very important to be able to say what you like to do and what you don't like to do. Here is how.

You will read your first texts in German: Peter, Daniela, Stephan, Janine and Christine are presenting themselves.

Now it's your turn to present some people.

We have already seen how to ask simple questions in German. Now, let's add some question pronouns. How? When? What? Why? Who? Where? etc.

Listen to the intro song of the kids' show "Sesame Street" in German. It contains a couple of questions words.

In this interactive exercise, you will present Angela Merkel, Claudia Schiffer and yourself and ask me questions. We will practise asking questions in the third and second person singular. The video has been made in a way that it will seem as if we were having a real discussion. I will make pauses during which you can formulate your answers.

After having already learned the numbers from 1 to 10, you will now see how to say higher numbers.

Let's practise the numbers and see how to tell the time in German.

This is a test about the regular verbs we have seen in class.

In this exercise, you can test whether you know how to conjugate the regular verbs and ask questions with and without question pronouns.

Let's do another exercise on the nominative that combines the definite and the indefinite articles with adjectives as well as the personal pronouns.

It is time to review the alphabet!

Imagine you are having a conversation with a six year-old girl. Ask her some questions!

Understand the items on a simple form. The explanation of the form is followed by a listening comprehension exercise.

The modal verbs are incredibly useful. See for yourself!

In this exercise, we will practise the modal verb "müssen".

Do you remember everything about the nominative case? And the vocabulary? The gender of the nouns?

Listen to the lottery numbers. The announcer speak quite fast - can you follow them? Try to write down all the numbers they say and compare with the answer sheet.

Let's calculate! I would like you to solve these equations and fill in the blanks writing the numbers out in letters. You find one pdf with the exercise and another pdf with the right answers. Just download them :)

Have a conversation with Lorenzo! Ask him some questions.

This is the last test on the nominative case before moving on the accusative case. How well are you doing?

What is the accusative case? When is it used? Is it very different from the nominative?

This video will help you really understand when to use the nominative and when to use the accusative.

This pdf-file is an overview of the nominative and the accusative. See all the differences at one glance.

Let's practise the two German cases together: the nominative and the accusative.