German Languages Classes Near You Learn & Go Abroad

Main topics 

• Introduce yourself, countries and occupations
• The alphabet and the numbers
• Languages and countries
• People and hobbies
• The work and the workplace
• Free time and daily activities
• At the hotel
• The city map and asking for directions
• Food and drink in the restaurant
• Shopping, prices and paying

Grammar 

• Personal pronouns and verbs in the present tense
• The group of nouns: der / die / das
• Regular, irregular and separable verbs
• The negation: nicht and kein
• Prepositions of place
• Personal pronouns in the accusative case
• Definite and indefinite articles
• W-questions and yes / no questions
• The imperative for instructions
• Modal verbs: können and möchten

Main topics 

• Daily schedule and routines
• Stress in the office
• On the computer
• Arranging appointments
• The seasons and the weather
• Destinations and travel preparations
• Means of transport
• Living and the home furnishings
• Health and the visit to the doctor
• Excuses and apologising

Grammar 

• The perfect tense with haben and sein
• Prepositions of time
• Sentence connectives: conjunctions
• The dative case and the group of nouns
• Indicators of space: wo and wohin
• Adjective endings after articles
• Comparative and superlative forms
• Modal verbs in the simple past
• Reflexive verbs
• Subordinate clauses with weil and dass

Main topics 

• Education, training and Ausbildung pathways
• Applying for work and the job interview
• Media, internet and social networks
• Money, banking and contracts
• Relationships and family life
• Settling into life in a new country
• Environment and everyday sustainability
• Culture, festivals and traditions
• Making complaints and resolving problems
• Plans, goals and future intentions

Grammar 

• The simple past of common verbs
• Relative clauses and relative pronouns
• The passive voice in the present tense
• Konjunktiv II for polite requests and advice
• The genitive case
• Two-way prepositions with dative and accusative
• Verbs with fixed prepositions
• Infinitive clauses with zu
• Temporal clauses: als, wenn, nachdem
• Indirect questions

Main topics 

• The German workplace and professional communication
• Presentations, meetings and discussion
• Study and academic life in Germany
• News, current affairs and opinion
• Science, technology and innovation
• Health systems and professional contexts
• Migration, integration and society
• Arguing a position and negotiating
• Formal correspondence: emails and letters
• Discussing literature and film

Grammar 

• The passive in all tenses, including with modal verbs
• Konjunktiv I for reported speech
• Extended participial phrases
• Nominalisation and Funktionsverbgefüge
• Concessive and consecutive clauses
• Subjective use of modal verbs
• Complex connectors: je … desto, sowohl … als auch
• Word order in complex sentences
• Prepositional adverbs: darauf, worauf, damit
• Register: formal versus informal

Main topics 

• Academic German for university study
• Abstract and specialist subject matter
• Debating and structured argumentation
• Business German and professional negotiation
• Analysing German-speaking media
• Idiomatic and colloquial expression
• Writing structured essays and reports
• Summarising long and complex texts
• Regional variation across Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Presenting research, data and findings

Grammar 

• Advanced Konjunktiv I and Konjunktiv II
• Passive alternatives (Passiversatzformen)
• Participle constructions I and II
• Nominal versus verbal style
• Advanced modal particles: doch, ja, mal, eben
• Complex prepositional and genitive constructions
• Ellipsis and text cohesion
• The sentence bracket and emphasis
• Advanced word formation
• Controlling stylistic register

Main topics 

• Near-native fluency across all contexts
• Nuance, irony and implied meaning
• Specialist and academic discourse
• Analysing literary and journalistic texts
• Comprehending fast, unmodified speech
• Persuasive and rhetorical speaking
• Precise professional writing
• Culture-specific references and humour
• Spontaneous debate on abstract topics
• Editing and refining your own German

Grammar 

• Full command of all tenses, moods and voices
• Subtle distinctions in modality
• Advanced idiomatic and figurative language
• Complex hypotactic sentence structures
• Stylistic variation and rhetorical devices
• Formal and archaic constructions in written German
• Fine-grained use of connectors
• Text-type-specific conventions
• Self-correction and error refinement
• Nuanced register switching

• Main topics 

  • Introducing yourself professionally in German
  • Telephone and video-call etiquette
  • Writing professional emails in German
  • Small talk and workplace conversation
  • Giving and receiving feedback politely
  • Presenting confidently to a group
  • Working in intercultural teams
  • Handling misunderstandings and clarifying
  • Appointment and punctuality culture in German-speaking countries
  • Everyday politeness: Sie versus du

  Practice focus 

  • Role plays in workplace scenarios
  • Recorded speaking tasks with instructor feedback
  • Peer practice in the weekly speaking clubs
  • Model phrases for meetings and calls
  • Common formal and informal expressions

Main topics 

• The German Lebenslauf: format and conventions
• Writing an Anschreiben (cover letter)
• Vocabulary for qualifications and experience
• Describing your language skills at CEFR levels
• Reading and decoding German job advertisements
• Preparing for a German-language interview
• Common interview questions and model answers
• Document sets for Ausbildung and university applications
• Formal register in application writing
• Proofreading your own application German

Practice focus 

• Draft and revise a full Lebenslauf in German
• Draft and revise an Anschreiben
• Mock interview in German with instructor feedback
• Vocabulary bank for your own field
• Checklist for a complete German application