Level A1 is the beginner level, B1 and B2 are roughly intermediate level, C1 and C2 represent a good to perfect language mastery, which comes very close to a native speaker, especially in C2. Please check out our main menu here for more lessons: homepage. The European Framework of Reference for Languages divides language ability into six levels (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2). In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the letter ß. German is written using the Latin alphabet. Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.Significant minorities of words are derived from Latin and Greek, with a smaller amount from French and English. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy (South Tyrol), Luxembourg Germany (95%, 78.3 million), Austria (89%, 7.4 million), Switzerland (65%, 4.6 million), Luxembourg (0.48 million) and Liechtenstein (0.03 million).ĩ0 million - 98 million (180 million including as a second language)

You can either pick a lesson from the table above, or read more about this beautiful language. Nominative case (der Nominativ) The first case ( erster Fall) is the nominative or subject case. This book offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of German. More modern systems just number them to make sure there’s no confusion, we’ll use both ways of doing it. You can either choose a random lesson below or start with me lesson by lesson. If you’re learning German from an older textbook, it probably uses the old, Latin-derived terms for the cases. We will also review some simple grammar rules, practice common phrases, and we will have fun memorizing many important vocabulary lists, and everything else that you see below. All the lessons contain audio and are all offered for free.

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