German Level 1
What will I learn?
Build a foundation
Establish the fundamentals of German vocabulary and essential language structure. Gain the confidence to begin to learn and speak German. Master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping and much more.
Sample topics include:
- Age, family relations, household items
- Introductions and greetings
- Times of day and calendar terms
- Buying and selling
How will I learn?
- Learn naturally and easily with our Dynamic Immersion® method.
- Perfect your accent with our state-of-the-art Speech-Recognition technology.
- Practice your new language in online lessons with live native-speaking tutors.
- Reinforce your learning with our exclusive Adaptive Recall™ feature.
- Connect words to meaning in a carefully designed sequence of activities.
- Further your learning by interacting with others and playing games in our online community.
What do I get?
Interactive Software Course
Learn to speak, read, listen and write in our award-winning program. CD-ROM software for Level 1 (Windows/Mac). Always available to refresh and rejuvenate your skills.
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Live Online Lessons
Practice with a native-speaking tutor and up to 3 other learners.
Games and Community
Language enhancing activities to play alone or with other learners.
USB Headset / Microphone
For use with our state-of-the-art speech-recognition software.
Audio Companion™
A multi-CD set to play at home and in the car or download to your MP3 player.
Also comes with proactive customer support agents to help you along the way and ensure you get the most from the program.
Buy Level 1
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Regular and Predictable German pronunciation and spelling are regular and predictable.
German Nouns There are three categories of German nouns: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
Capitalization German nouns are always capitalized, regardless of where they occur in a sentence. For example: Der Mann läuft.
Verb Structure Many verbs have two parts: one part that comes after the subject and one part that comes at the end of the sentence. For example: Der Mann hat einen Apfel gegessen.
German Alphabet The German alphabet contains all the letters of the Roman alphabet and in addition includes the letter ß.
An Umlaut The vowels in some German words have a mark written above them, a pair of dots called an umlaut ¨. This mark shows you how to properly pronounce the word, and it may distinguish one word from another, which is identical except for the mark. For example: ein Apfel – zwei Äpfel.
Formality German has both formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and her relationship to the person or persons being addressed.
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