Course Overview
Introduction
– Basic greetings and introductions
Family and Occupation
– Vocabulary for family members and professions
– Using possessive articles (unser, euer)
– Forming sentences in perfect and präteritum tenses
Living, Moving, Interior
– Vocabulary related to living spaces and moving
– Changing prepositions with akkusative and dativ cases
Tourism, Nature, Evaluation
– Vocabulary for tourism and nature
– Word construction: turning verbs into nouns
Shopping, Grocery, Measurements
– Vocabulary for shopping and groceries
– Adjective declination with indefinite articles
Planning, Reporting, Postcard, Email
– Writing skills: postcards and emails
– Adjective declination with definite articles
Suggestions, Objections, Events
– Making suggestions and objections
– Prepositions of time
Giving and Receiving Advice, Sport
– Vocabulary for giving and receiving advice
– Subjunctive II, prepositions of time, and adverbials
Health, Accidents, Empathy, Hope
– Discussing health and accidents
– Using conjunctions
Work Environment, Evaluation
– Vocabulary for the work environment
– Adjective declination after zero articles
Restaurant, Placing Orders, Payment
– Vocabulary for dining out and making payments
– Using the conjunction dass
Congratulations, Gratitude
– Expressing congratulations and gratitude
– Using reflexive verbs
Surprise, Comparison
– Expressing surprise and making comparisons
– Using conjunctions like wenn
Grammar Topics
Modal Verbs
– Common modal verbs (müssen, sollen, dürfen, können, etc.)
Conditional | Subjunctive (Konjunktiv II)
– Using verbs like “könnten, sollten, müssten” and also “hätten, wären, würden”
Passive Voice
– Forming and using sentences in the passive voice
Accusative and Dative Prepositions
– Expressing differences such as “to be inside” vs. “go into” or “put something on a table” vs. “sit on a sofa”
Accusative and Dative Verbs
– Using articles, personal pronouns, and possessive pronouns with accusative and dative verbs
Indirect Speech
– Recognizing and using indirect speech in writing and articles
Relative Sentences
– Using relative pronouns (which/how)
Prepositional Pronouns
– Building sentences like “I am interested in learning German” (Ich interessiere mich dafür, Deutsch zu lernen)
Adjective Endings
– Understanding adjective endings that are case-sensitive, gender-dependent, and influenced by definite and indefinite articles