Level A1

A1.1 (Beginner – Getting started)

Vocabulary:

• Greetings & introductions
• Numbers (1-100)
• Countries, nationalities, languages
• Family members
• Colors, everyday objects
• Basic adjectives
• Everyday places (home, office, school)
• Days of week, time expressions

Grammar:

• Pronouns (personal, possessive)
• Definite / indefinite articles (“der, die, das”, “ein, eine”)
• Verb conjugation in present tense (regular / irregular)
• Basic sentence word order (statements / yes‐no questions)
• Negation (“nicht”, “kein”)
• Question words (wer, was, wann, wo, warum)

A1.2 (Building basics)

Vocabulary:

• Daily routine verbs
• Food, meals
• Shopping / asking prices
• Living / accommodation
• Weather, seasons
• Expressing wishes / simple preferences
• Facilities, directions

Grammar:

• Modal verbs (möchten, können)
• Separable verbs
• Accusative & dative cases basics
• Prepositions of place and time
• Simple past (Perfekt) with haben / sein
• Imperatives (giving simple commands)

A2.1 (Everyday interactions)

Vocabulary:

• Travel and transportation
• Work / professions
• Health / body parts / doctor's visit
• Events, celebrations
• Media (TV, newspapers)
• Shopping more complex items

Grammar:

• More prepositional phrases
• Comparisons (größer als, so … wie)
• Word order with subordinating conjunctions (weil, dass)
• Reflexive verbs
• Introduction to genitive (basic)

A2.2 (Expressing yourself better)

Vocabulary:

• Environment / climate
• News / current affairs
• Relationships & social topics
• Technology & media
• Hobbies / culture

Grammar:

• Past tense forms: Präteritum & Plusquamperfekt
• Relative clauses (der, die, das …)
• Indirect speech basics
• Modal verbs in past tense
• Adjectives declension (weak / strong)

B1.1 (Independent speaker)

Vocabulary:

• Personal goals & life stages
• Education & career paths
• Politics, society
• Travel & planning
• Cultural issues

Grammar:

• Complex sentence connectors (obwohl, obwohl)
• Subordinate clauses (wenn, falls)
• Conjunction “als” vs “wenn”
• Infinitives with zu
• Modal perfect, passive voice basics

B1.2 (Greater fluency / Professional contexts)

Vocabulary:

• Workplace communication
• Writing formal emails / letters
• Expressing opinions / arguments
• Media & news
• Arts, literature, film

Grammar:

• Passive voice in various tenses
• Reported speech
• More on subjunctive (Konjunktiv I & II)
• Advanced adjective declension
• Nominalization & more compact style

B2.1 (Upper-Intermediate)

Vocabulary:

• Society, ethics, culture
• Migration / diversity topics
• Environment and sustainability
• Technology / social media
• Nuanced vocabulary for discourse

Grammar:

• Advanced connectors
• Complex compound sentences
• Causals / conditionals
• Adverbial vs adjectival constructions
• Subjunctive II: hypothetical statements

B2.2 (Pre-Advanced proficiency)

Vocabulary:

• Abstract topics (philosophy, psychology)
• Professional / academic vocabulary
• Negotiation, persuasion, formal discourse
• Criticism and nuance

Grammar:

• Further passive constructions
• Indirect speech in depth
• Nominal style (using nouns instead of verbs)
• Perfect & future tenses in complex usage
• Stylistic allusions, idiomatic expressions

What you can expect:

• Fluent and spontaneous communication in complex situations
• Writing essays, academic texts, reports, formal letters
• Giving presentations confidently
• Understanding and using idiomatic expressions and varied registers
• Handling abstract and theoretical topics in German