The A1 German Course is a complete beginner course for English speakers who want to build a strong foundation in the German language without feeling overwhelmed.
You will learn:
- Essential German greetings, introductions, and survival phrases
- Beginner pronunciation and the German alphabet
- Personal pronouns, sentence structure, and question forms
- Articles, noun gender, plurals, and core vocabulary
- Present tense verbs, modal verbs, and separable verbs
- How to talk about family, hobbies, identity, and daily life
- Dates, time, routines, and schedules
- Food, shopping, restaurant, and travel language
- Home, transport, and directions vocabulary
- Beginner cases, negation, and word order
- Simple reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills for real-life A1 German
With straightforward explanations, interactive practice, and a logical lesson sequence, this A1 German course helps you build real confidence in German one step at a time.
Curriculum
- 10 Sections
- 63 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Module 1: First Contact with German6
- Module 2: Building a Foundation8
- Module 3: Everyday Life Basics6
- Module 4: Asking and Answering Simple Questions6
- Module 5: Present Tense Foundations6
- 5.1Lesson 27: The Present Tense and Regular Verbs with ich
- 5.2Lesson 28: Regular Verbs with du
- 5.3Lesson 29: Regular Verbs with er, sie, es
- 5.4Lesson 30: Regular Verbs with wir, ihr, sie / Sie
- 5.5Lesson 31: Irregular Verbs: sein, haben, sprechen, and fahren
- 5.6Lesson 32: Talking About What You Do Every Day
- Module 6: Shopping, Food, and Everyday Needs7
- Module 7: Time, Plans, and Routines7
- 7.1Lesson 39: Months and Dates
- 7.2Lesson 40: Telling Time
- 7.3Lesson 41: Daily Routine Word Order
- 7.4Lesson 42: Frequency Words: Always, Often, Sometimes, Never
- 7.5Lesson 43: Making Simple Plans
- 7.6Lesson 44: Appointments with the Nominative and Accusative Cases
- 7.7Lesson 45: Review: Time, Plans, Routines, and Appointments
- Module 8: Home, City, and Getting Around6
- Module 9: Health, Weather, and Travel6
- Module 10: Hotel and Vacations6
Course Material
FAQs
Yes. This A1 German course is completely free. You do not need to pay for access, and you do not need to register before starting the lessons.
No. You can start learning right away without creating an account. The course is open-access, so you can move through the lessons at your own pace.
This course is for complete beginners and early German learners working toward A1 German. A1 is the first beginner level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, often called the CEFR.
Yes. The course includes free downloadable resources: A1 vocabulary guide, verb conjugation reference guide, grammar workbook, and visual cheat sheets.
A1 level German proficiency can take 60 to 150 hours of practice and up to 3 months of intensive study.
A1 German teaches: greetings and introductions, numbers, days of the week, months, basic grammar, core vocabulary, listening, and reading competencies.
You'll have a solid understanding of basic German, able to understand simple phrases and questions, and build a foundation for interactions with native speakers.
Yes, it can help you build a strong A1 foundation. If you need to test out of a first-year German requirement, this course can help you review beginner grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, listening, reading, and speaking topics. Always check your university’s placement-test requirements because each school sets its own standards.
Yes. You’ll learn how to introduce yourself, talk about your family, describe your home and daily life, ask simple questions, talk about hobbies, discuss the weather, describe plans, and say what you did recently.
Yes. The course includes travel-friendly German such as ordering food, asking for directions, using public transportation, talking about hotels, asking for help, and handling basic pharmacy or doctor situations.
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