Free Online German Course for Beginners (A1)

You can introduce yourself and keep a short conversation going.

You can spell your name out loud and pronounce the four letters English does not have.

You can count to twenty and give your phone number.

You can say any number up to a hundred — including the backwards ones like einundzwanzig.

You can use the right word for I, you, he, she, it, we and they.

You can say who you are, where you are from and how you feel.

You can introduce your family and say how people are related.

You can work out the gender of most German nouns from their ending.

You can say “a” and “an” in German, and know when to drop it entirely.

You can conjugate any regular German verb — the pattern behind thousands of words.

You can say no to anything — and pick the right negation word.

You can ask for any piece of information you need.

You can take an order, phone it through and hand it out.

You can build correct sentences by putting the verb in position two, every time.

You can use den and einen for the object of a sentence.

You can say what you can, must and want to do.

You can ask and answer what time it is, formally and informally.

You can ask which platform your train leaves from and understand the answer.

You can give your personal details and understand what the clerk asks for.

You can say what you have, and use the haben phrases where English says “I am”.

You can choose correctly between the two most common German verbs.

You can form the plural of most nouns and recognise the five endings.

You can order bread and pastries and understand the price you are given.

You can ask for quantities and weights and pay without switching to English.

You can use aufstehen, einkaufen and anrufen without losing the prefix.

You can say what you did yesterday, using haben or sein plus a participle.

You can say when something happens without guessing the preposition.

You can turn any statement into a question by moving one word.

You can describe your working day from morning to Feierabend.

You can describe a symptom and ask for something to treat it.

You can use dem, der and den when something is given to someone.

You can tell someone what to do, politely and informally.

You can link two sentences without disturbing the word order.

You can name every day and say which day something happens.

You can give a date and say when your birthday is.

You can describe what something looks like.

You can handle the common verbs that change their vowel with du and er/sie/es.

You can say what belongs to you and to other people.

You can name the things in a room and ask where a department is.

You can ask for a tool or a part and describe what you need it for.

You can work a German washing machine and read the settings.

You can book an appointment and explain what hurts.

You can understand a delay announcement and ask what to do next.

You can hand over your documents and follow an officer’s instructions.

You can collect a parcel from a neighbour or a Paketshop.