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Course details

Build confidence in talking German at A2 level

Who is this course for?

  • You want to use German naturally in everyday conversations and real-life situations.
  • Professionals working in German-speaking environments.
  • You have a busy and changing schedule.
  • You are looking for a flexible and efficient way to improve your German.
  • You want to prepare the Goethe-Zertifikat A2 exam and need targeted language practice.

What you will learn

  • Speaking: Engage in simple conversations and express your thoughts and opinions
  • Listening: Understand basic spoken German
  • Reading: Easily find specific information in everyday material
  • Writing: produce coherent texts on familiar topics or matters of personal interest
  • Use key grammar structures and build practical vocabulary for daily life
  • Know German culture and traditions to enhance communication effectiveness

This course in short

  • German A2 course based on Goethe-Institut grammar and vocabulary guidelines.
  • You study with a mix of self study with assignments and speaking practice classes.
  • A personal tutor supports you and organizes your learning schedule.
  • You can monitor your progress through our online platform.

Pricing

Start in the learning portal. Add a teacher when you are ready.

Self-study

Learn whenever you want, 30 minutes a day.

From €1.50/month

  • Progress tracking
  • Printed book for offline study
  • Audio, video and AI corrections
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  • 1 month €14.99 €14.99/month
  • 3 months €24.00 €8.00/month Save €20.97 (47%)
  • 6 months €34.50 €5.75/month Save €55.44 (62%)
  • 12 months €45.48 €3.79/month Save €134.40 (75%)
  • 48 months €72.00 €1.50/month Save €647.52 (90%)

Course schedule

Study when you want, and book a teacher around your work.

  • Self-study 24/7, online and offline
  • Classes around your work schedule
  • No fixed group times
  • Book a class when you are ready

Curriculum

You reach 1 level in 12 weeks. Vocabulary and grammar are aligned with official exams (CEFR).

Learning objectives

  • Describe different types of holidays and activities.
  • Discuss the transport options for getting to your destination.
  • Be familiar with popular holiday destinations in your host country.

Video/audio

  • Travel in Germany

Grammar

  • Comparisons with „wie" and „als"

Learning objectives

  • Name and describe common items to pack and different types of suitcase.
  • Packing a suitcase for a business trip
  • Check baggage rules and restrictions at the airport.

Video/audio

  • Packing the suitcase

Grammar

  • Sentence connections with „trotzdem", „dennoch" and „obwohl"

Learning objectives

  • Book and reserve a room – by phone, email or online.
  • Recognise common hotel and room types.

Video/audio

  • The hotel booking

Grammar

  • Expressing purpose with „damit" and „um … zu"

Learning objectives

  • Checking in for your flight: at the airport and online.
  • Ask for information about flight timetables and terminals.
  • Pass through security checks and understand safety instructions.

Video/audio

  • At the Airport

Grammar

  • Adjectives: „den/die/das“ + accusative, „dem/der“ + dative

Learning objectives

  • Hire a car, a bike or a scooter.
  • Manage your car insurance and security deposit.
  • Pick up your transport and return it.

Video/audio

  • Rent your vehicle

Grammar

  • The difference between „viel" and sehr

Learning objectives

  • Check in and check out at your hotel.
  • Request changes or additional services during your stay.
  • Please report any issues with your stay to the reception desk.

Video/audio

  • At the Hotel

Grammar

  • Dative + Accusative: „Ich gebe es dem Gast"

Learning objectives

  • Common activities on a city break.
  • Ask for information at the tourist information office.
  • Learn practical tourist survival phrases to help you find your way around the city.

Video/audio

  • As a tourist in the city

Grammar

  • Comparatives and superlatives of adverbs: “schnell, schneller, am schnellsten”

Learning objectives

  • Report stolen or lost items at the police station.
  • Ask for help with documents at the embassy or consulate.
  • Call the emergency services.

Video/audio

  • Holiday catastrophe

Grammar

  • Relative clauses with der, die, das

Learning objectives

  • Navigating social security, work permits and bureaucracy.
  • Understand your obligations and the paperwork required in the country.

Video/audio

  • Paperwork and bureaucracy

Grammar

  • Past participle with inseparable verbs: „beantragt, entschieden, verstanden"

Learning objectives

  • Discuss a news story you saw on TV or heard on the radio.
  • Time expressions for recent past events.
  • Get to know the most popular media outlets in your host country.

Video/audio

  • Did you hear the news?

Grammar

  • Simple past: regular verbs (ich sah, ich berichtete)

Learning objectives

  • Know the emergency numbers in your new country.
  • Making emergency calls and getting advice

Video/audio

  • Emergency services

Grammar

  • Simple past: irregular verbs (war, kam, rief, half)

Learning objectives

  • Learn more about the education system in the country.
  • Talk about your school days and childhood memories.

Video/audio

  • My school days

Grammar

  • Perfekt vs. Präteritum: Usage

Learning objectives

  • Open a bank account.
  • Shop online and get familiar with common payment methods.
  • Get to know the country’s biggest banks.

Video/audio

  • At the bank

Grammar

  • Time expressions with the perfect: heute, gestern

Learning objectives

  • Talk about your university degree or your goals.
  • Know vocabulary related to higher education.
  • Get to know the higher education system and institutions in your new country.

Video/audio

  • University degree

Grammar

  • Time expressions with past tenses: „gestern" vs. „plötzlich"

Learning objectives

  • Familiarise yourself with the country’s key government institutions.
  • Elections and voting

Video/audio

  • The government and the elections

Grammar

  • Overview of past tenses (Perfekt & Präteritum)

Learning objectives

  • Buy tickets (online) for a festival, concert, musical, ...
  • Talk about musical instruments and your favourite music genre.
  • Know the key festivals and public holidays in your new country.

Video/audio

  • Go to a concert

Grammar

  • Future I - (Ich werde stehen)

Learning objectives

  • Invite friends over and welcome them.
  • Organise a dinner, a games night or another activity.
  • Get to know common evening activities in your new country.

Video/audio

  • Visiting friends

Grammar

  • The superlative: irregular adjectives „am besten", „am häufigsten"

Learning objectives

  • Talk about village life and the countryside.
  • Learn the names of farm animals.
  • Discover the best-known countryside regions of your host country.

Video/audio

  • Visit the countryside

Grammar

  • Impersonal speaking with “man”

Learning objectives

  • Camping trip and nature activities
  • Use a map or GPS.
  • Know the most popular areas to go camping in your new country.

Video/audio

  • Camping

Grammar

  • Conjunctions: und, aber, oder, also, dann

Learning objectives

  • Describe a range of landscapes and animals.
  • Organise a family day out at a theme park.
  • Find out more about famous zoos or wildlife reserves in your host country

Video/audio

  • Family outing to the zoo

Grammar

  • The verb „lassen" (Lass das!)

Learning objectives

  • Invite friends and family on a hike or a short walk.
  • Vocabulary for landscapes and walking.
  • Discover the best-known hiking areas in your host country.

Video/audio

  • The Sunday walk

Grammar

  • Indirect questions with ob

Learning objectives

  • Talk about hygiene products and daily routines.
  • Explain which hygiene products you want from the shop.

Video/audio

  • Washing oneself

Grammar

  • Temporal connectives: nachdem, zuerst, wenn

Learning objectives

  • Search for and find private lessons.
  • Sign up with a local academy of your choice.

Video/audio

  • Ceramic painting

Grammar

  • Time expressions with „von … bis", „seit" and „bis"

Learning objectives

  • Ask if there’s a special menu.
  • Order a takeaway.

Video/audio

  • Berlin-style currywurst

Grammar

  • Polite requests: „Ich hätte gerne"

Learning objectives

  • Talk about your diet and healthy and unhealthy habits.
  • Plan your weekly meals.

Video/audio

  • Healthy Eating

Grammar

  • Indirect speech with „dass"

Learning objectives

  • Discuss your daily commute.
  • Discuss different forms of transport.

Video/audio

  • Sustainable transport

Grammar

  • Verbs: „sich an etwas halten", „sich für etwas interessieren, ..."

Learning objectives

  • Talk about your favourite outfit.
  • Describe your outfit and fashion style.

Video/audio

  • The Düsseldorf Fashion Days

Grammar

  • Reflexive verbs: „sich kämmen, sich freuen, ..."

Learning objectives

  • Talk about the benefits of exercise and sports
  • Talk about your daily practice routine

Video/audio

  • My training plan

Grammar

  • Possessive pronouns: mein, dein, sein, ...

Learning objectives

  • Discuss a property advert you’ve just seen.
  • Discuss buying a new house or flat.

Video/audio

  • At the estate agent

Grammar

  • Conditional clause ("Wenn es möbliert ist, kaufe ich das Haus")

Learning objectives

  • Talk about a book, fairy tale or poem you’ve read.
  • Ask for a book or an author at the library.
  • Borrowing books and signing up as a new library member.

Video/audio

  • German literature

Grammar

  • Temporal clauses with während & bevor

Learning objectives

  • Talk about your bucket list and future plans

Video/audio

  • The journey of her life

Grammar

  • The process passive

Learning objectives

  • Talking about future plans and ambitions
  • Talk about relationships and family plans

Video/audio

  • Wedding planning

Grammar

  • Verbs with fixed prepositions in the dative (mit, von, bei)

Learning objectives

  • Discuss plans for starting a business.
  • Talk about everyday bookkeeping tasks.

Video/audio

  • The company founding

Grammar

  • When is no article used?

Learning objectives

  • Talk about activities and lifestyle changes after retiring.
  • Talking about ongoing actions in the future

Video/audio

  • What to do in retirement?

Grammar

  • Verbs with „zu" + infinitive in future plans

Learning objectives

  • Know the names of local services and businesses.
  • Discuss what you can find at the shopping centre.

Video/audio

  • Shop locally

Grammar

  • Time and place indication with inversion: „Morgen gehen wir einkaufen"

Learning objectives

  • Send and receive messages.
  • Email and the internet.

Video/audio

  • At the post office

Grammar

  • Conjunctions: „weder…noch" / „sowohl…als auch"

Learning objectives

  • Create and send your CV.
  • Use job boards to look for work.

Video/audio

  • The Job Search

Grammar

  • Prepositional verbs with accusative and dative: an, auf, hinter, in

Learning objectives

  • Job interview skills
  • Indirect object

Video/audio

  • At the job interview

Grammar

  • Imperative forms: Deepening and special cases: „gehen wir!

Learning objectives

  • Vocabulary for teams and roles
  • Giving instructions using an indirect object

Video/audio

  • Teamwork in the company

Grammar

  • The imperative with pronouns: „Erledige es sofort!"

Learning objectives

  • Learn key debating vocabulary
  • Expressing agreement and disagreement

Video/audio

  • Team meetings

Grammar

  • The negative imperative: „Sprechen Sie bitte nicht!“

Learning objectives

  • Express your opinion
  • Learn key phrases for discussing different viewpoints

Video/audio

  • Salary negotiations

Grammar

  • Irregular imperative ("sei, hab, nimm")

Learning objectives

  • Organisational hierarchy vocabulary
  • Giving instructions

Video/audio

  • Departments in the company

Grammar

  • Indirect speech in the perfect tense

Learning objectives

  • Everyday Office Vocabulary
  • Vocabulary for Remote Work

Video/audio

  • Remote work

Grammar

  • Passive voice in the past (Perfect/Simple Past)

Continue after A2

Same language path from A1 to C2. Pick the next level when you are ready.

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Download the full e-book as PDF, or print any lesson as a translated worksheet.

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Train all four skills: listening and pronunciation with audio, reading with authentic texts, writing with AI feedback, and speaking in your classes.

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Our books are sold in bookshops across Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, and beyond—and approved by public libraries.

Academic collaboration with universities

Course plans are co-developed from our Valencian office with multiple European universities.

Student reviews of our German lessons

  • 4.6/5
4.6 out of 5 based on 12 ratings

Clear structure from A1 upward. AI corrections in the portal save time; I still work through the printed units.

Rachel E.
Helsinki, Finland
Self-study
  • 4.8/5

Studying offline with the book, online for corrections. Works for EU adults who cannot attend fixed classroom hours.

Claire D.
Lyon, France
Blended learning
  • 4.6/5

Flexible enough for family life. I download lessons, use translated audio, and book a teacher when I need feedback.

David R.
Berlin, Germany
Blended learning
  • 4.3/5

Our partners

We thank our partners for the support we receive for developing our online school.

We proudly work with Lanzadera, a Spanish accelerator program in Valencia.

The university of Siegen helps us to develop and design our education systems and programs.

Our IT systems are powered and supported by the Google Cloud team

We collaborate with universities all across the European Union to develop our course materials, thanks to the Erasmus+ Program.

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