Complete German Speaking

German · 12 weeks · Beginner · 36 lessons · Live online classes

About the Course

Goal

Take learners from their first "Guten Tag" to a functional CEFR A1 speaker equipped for everyday survival communication — a focused, fast-track foundation in Deutsch built through interactive lessons, practical exercises, and real-life conversation with native-speaking educators.


Building Blocks and First Encounters

The alphabet, Umlaute, and classroom survival phrases open the course, followed by formal and informal greetings, personal pronouns, and the verb sein. Numbers, W-questions, and vital data lead into nationalities, languages, and regular verb conjugation, with a first taste of the DACH region's dialects. Family vocabulary introduces grammatical gender and possessives, before big numbers, the verb haben, and a first written profile close the foundation stage.


Everyday Life in Focus

Grocery shopping brings articles and plurals, while the Accusative case and möchten carry learners into restaurant ordering. Describing an apartment, mastering kein/keine versus nicht, and decoding rental classifieds ground the language in daily living, followed by a midterm review of clock time, separable verbs, and a speaking examination. Work vocabulary, modal verbs können and müssen, and professional email templates lead into leisure, strong verbs, further modals (wollen, möchten), and weather phrases.


Travel, the Past and the Final Assessment

Mass transit, the Dative case, and the imperative mood equip learners for city navigation and hotel bookings. Body vocabulary, the modal sollen, and clothing shopping build real-world confidence, before the Perfekt past tense — with haben or sein, weak and strong participles — and the Präteritum of war and hatte unlock storytelling about life events. The course concludes with a full grammar synthesis, a comprehensive mock examination, and an oral assessment with real-time feedback on pronunciation and structure.


Key Highlights

  • Duration: 54 hours / 36 classes across 12 modules
  • Level: CEFR A1
  • Approach: Interactive and native-led — practical exercises, real-life conversation, and integrated speaking, listening, reading, and writing
  • Progression: Building blocks → everyday life → travel, the past & final assessment
  • Outcome: The LearniLM World German A1 Certificate, confirming readiness for everyday survival communication and further language study

Curriculum

  1. Lesson 1: The Alphabet, Phonetics & Classroom Survival
  2. Lesson 2: First Greetings & Origins
  3. Lesson 3: Numbers & Exchanging Vital Data
  4. Lesson 4: Geography, Countries & Languages
  5. Lesson 5: Asking Questions & Basic Sentence Architecture
  6. Lesson 6: Listening Comprehension & Cultural Dialects
  7. Lesson 7: Meet the Family
  8. Lesson 8: Big Numbers & Ages
  9. Lesson 9: Writing a Short Profile
  10. Lesson 10: At the Market & Grocery Stores
  11. Lesson 11: Preferences & The Accusative Case
  12. Lesson 12: In the Restaurant
  13. Lesson 13: Describing the Apartment
  14. Lesson 14: The Art of Negation
  15. Lesson 15: Decoding Real Estate Classifieds
  16. Lesson 16: Clock Work
  17. Lesson 17: Daily Routines & Separable Verbs
  18. Lesson 18: Midterm Speaking Examination
  19. Lesson 19: Vocational Identities
  20. Lesson 20: Office Dynamics & Modal Verbs (Part I)
  21. Lesson 21: Professional Correspondence Basics
  22. Lesson 22: Leisure & Strong Verbs
  23. Lesson 23: Inivitations & Modal Verbs (Part II)
  24. Lesson 24: Meteorology & The Elements
  25. Lesson 25: Mass Transit Mechanics
  26. Lesson 26: City Navigation & The Imperative
  27. Lesson 27: Hospitality & Accommodations
  28. Lesson 28: Anatomy & Expression of Pain
  29. Lesson 29: Pharmacy Interactions & Giving Advice
  30. Lesson 30: Apparel Retail & Aesthetics
  31. Lesson 31: Conversational Past Tense (Perfekt - Part I)
  32. Lesson 32: Conversational Past Tense (Perfekt - Part II)
  33. Lesson 33: Simple Past of Crucial Auxiliaries
  34. Lesson 34: Full-Spectrum Grammar Architecture Synthesis
  35. Lesson 35: Time-Boxed Comprehensive Mock Examination
  36. Lesson 36: Oral Assessment, Feedback & Future Pathways

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