German Course Descriptions:

GERMAN 1:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course is designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of German. The course introduces the fundamentals of the German language, including pronunciation. The students will be introduced to the four basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In this course we will talk about German culture. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to carry on a basic German conversation, as well as read and write sentences using the grammatical structures and the vocabulary learned. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Pronounce German vowels and the “Umlaute” (ä, ö, ü)
• Exchange greetings, both formal and informal
• Ask people who they are
• Introduce oneself
• Give and receive personal information
• Say goodbye
• Spell names
• Count 1 - 1000
• Name objects in a classroom
• Name colors
• Identify gender of nouns
• Use indefinite article and pronouns
• Make plans and ask about personal plans
• Ask what day it is
• Tell time
• Describe people
• Express likes and dislikes
• Ask formal and informal questions using the w-words (wer, was, wie, wie viel, wie, viele)
• Give positive and negative responses
• Use subject pronouns (du, ihr, Sie)
• Use present tense of 'sein'and regular verbs

Textbook: Deutsch heute by Jack Moeller, 10^th Edition
ISBN: 9781111354824

GERMAN 2:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course is for adult learner, and it builds on the knowledge acquired in German 1. The focus is on expanding students' vocabulary, fluency, and grammar knowledge. We will continue to develop the four basic language acquisition skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. We will continue to delve into German culture. The goal is for students to be able to hold a simple conversation in German. Chapters 2 and 3 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about the weather
• Inquire about someone's birthday
• Summarize information given
• State someone's nationality and citizenship
• Express skepticism
• Use the question word 'woher'
• Use simple past tense of 'sein'
• Use present tense of 'haben', 'wissen', 'kennen'
• Use the nominative case
• Use verbs with stem-vowel change e > i
• Explain when to use 'kein' vs. 'nicht'
• Talk about shopping and buying groceries
• Express and inquire about needs
• Discuss meals
• Inquire about personal habits
• Give directives
• Respond to offers and requests
• Use noun compounds
• Use the accusative of the definite articles 'der, das, die'
• Use the accusative form of 'ein, kein, wer, and was'
• Use the impersonal expression 'es gibt'

Textbook: Deutsch heute by Jack Moeller, 10^th Edition
ISBN: 9781111354824

GERMAN 3:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 2. The focus is on expanding students' vocabulary, fluency, and grammar knowledge. Students will continue to develop the four basic language acquisition skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about borrowing and lending things
• Offer explanations and excuses
• Describe one's family, nationality, and profession
• Talk about personal interests
• Inquire about abilities
• Discuss duties and requirements
• Inquire about future plans
• Express regret
• Use the present tense of 'werden'
• Use verbs with stem-vowel changes 'e > ie and a > ä'
• Use 'haben' in the simple past
• Use 'Der' words
• Use modal auxiliaries
• Use separable-prefix verbs
• Discuss transportation and travel plans
• Show connections and relationships
• Report actions and give reasons
• Use verbs with stem-vowel change 'au > ä'
• Use independent clauses and coordinating conjunctions
• Use the dative case
• Use indirect objects

Textbook: Deutsch heute by Jack Moeller, 10^th Edition
ISBN: 9781111354824

GERMAN 4:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 3. The focus is on expanding students' vocabulary, fluency, and grammar knowledge. Students will continue to develop the four basic language acquisition skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Chapters 6 and 7 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Discuss leisure-time activities
• Express likes and dislikes
• Discuss clothes
• Express opinions
• Talk about the past
• Apologize
• Use the present perfect tense
• Use the past participle
• Use auxiliaries 'haben' and 'sein'
• Use dependent clauses in present perfect tense
• Make plans and preparations
• Discuss and schedule household chores
• Express agreement and disagreement
• Discuss cultural features
• Use 'Hin' and 'her'
• Use verbs: legen/ liegen, stellen/stehen, setzen/sitzen, hägen, stecken
• Use two-way prepositions
• Use verb and preposition combinations
• Use time expressions in dative and accusative
• Use Da-compounds and Wo-compounds
• Ask indirect questions

Textbook: Deutsch heute by Jack Moeller, 10^th Edition
ISBN: 9781111354824

GERMAN 5:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 4. The focus is on expanding students' vocabulary, fluency, and grammar knowledge. Students will continue to develop the four basic language acquisition skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Chapters 8 and 9 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Give factual information
• Express importance
• Discuss friends and family
• Describe things in more detail
• State wants and desires
• Inquire about an opinion
• Use the future time tenses
• Use the genitive case
• Use ordinal numbers
• Inquire about someone's health
• Talk about injuries
• Discuss wishes and personal information
• Describe one's daily routine
• Talk about household chores
• Make comparisons
• State preferences
• Express sympathy
• Use reflexive constructions
• Use infinitives with 'zu'
• Use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs

Textbook: Deutsch heute by Jack Moeller, 10^th Edition
ISBN: 9781111354824

GERMAN 6:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 5. The focus is on expanding students' vocabulary, fluency, and grammar knowledge. Students will continue to develop the four basic language acquisition skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Chapters 10 and 11 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about cultural events and interests
• Make and respond to an invitation
• Ask someone about their past
• Express perplexity
• Use simple past and past perfect tenses
• Use conjuctions 'als', 'wenn', and 'wann'
• Talk about one's qualifications for a job
• Inquire about and express wishes
• Express hypothetical statements
• Contrast the subjunctive and indicative moods
• Use the 'würde'-construction
• Use the present-time and past-time subjunctive

Textbook: Deutsch heute by Jack Moeller, 10^th Edition
ISBN: 9781111354824

GERMAN 7:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 6. The focus is on expanding students' vocabulary, fluency, and grammar knowledge. Students will continue to develop the four basic language acquisition skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Chapter 12 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about future plans
• Talk about culturals events
• Make suggestions
• Discuss who invented, wrote, or discovered something
• Use relative clauses
• Use relative pronouns
• Use the passive voice
• Summarize the uses of 'werden'

Textbook: Deutsch heute by Jack Moeller, 10^th Edition
ISBN: 9781111354824

GERMAN 8:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 7. The goal of this course is to expand students' vocabulary and improve fluency, listening and reading comprehension, and grammatical accuracy in speaking and writing. Chapters 1 and 2 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about yourself and others in more detail
• Talk about professional and leisure activities, career prospects, music, photography, cinema, school, training, meetings, and daily routines
• Discuss a crime novel
• Read and write a tabular CV
• Review Grammar: present tense, Separable and non-separable verbs, Perfect tense, Reflexive verbs, Gender, Genitive, Modal verbs in the present and past tense, Past tense for regular and irregular Verbs, and Negation
• Pronounce word accent in verbs, Difficult words (compounds), Vowel: e [e:] [ɛ] [ə]
• Read a biography

Textbook: Begegnungen Deutsch als Fremdsprache A2+: Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch -Language: german (ISBN: 9783969150085)

GERMAN 9:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 8. The goal of this course is to expand students' vocabulary and improve fluency, listening and reading comprehension, and grammatical accuracy in speaking and writing. Chapters 3 and 4 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about money, banks forms, monthly spending, Lotto, and shopping on TV and internet, consumer trends and goods, and office activities and equipment
• Report on office activities, make business phone calls, arrange and decline appointments, and make polite requests
• Write a business email and use appropriate salutations and greetings in work emails.
• Review grammar: State reasons and conditions, causal statements (because), conditional statements (if), verbs with accusative and/or dative, personal pronouns, subjunctive II – hypothesis and polite request, indefinite article without noun, verbs with prepositions, indirect questions, and subordinate clauses with that
• Pronounce consonants: d [d] – t [t], b [b] – p [p], g [g] – k [k], f [f], v [f] [v], ph [f], w [v]
• Discuss money tips, the most expensive cities in the world, what is important in working life, and the ideal boss

Textbook: Begegnungen Deutsch als Fremdsprache A2+: Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch -Language: german (ISBN: 9783969150085)

GERMAN 10:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 9. The goal of this course is to expand students' vocabulary and improve fluency, listening and reading comprehension, and grammatical accuracy in speaking and writing. Chapters 5 and 6 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about travel destinations, travel habits, vacations, your hometown, the weather, transportation, traffic announcements, joy, and anger
• Describe people, interpersonal and family relationships in more detail
• Write a holiday card and a rejection
• Lead a party conversation
• Formulate reasons and counter-reasons
• Make suggestions and give recommendations
• Praise or criticize someone
• Review grammar: directional statements, declension of adjectives, concessive statements (obwohl), comparison of adjectives, recommendations (sollten), relative clauses, speech particles, prepositions with accusative
• Pronounce the unstressed e, the consonant r, and endings -ich and -ig [ç]
• Talk about mystical places in Germany: Der Brocken, Die Externsteine, Das Teufelsmoor
• Discuss a poem: Die Mücken

Textbook: Begegnungen Deutsch als Fremdsprache A2+: Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch -Language: german (ISBN: 9783969150085)

GERMAN 11:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in German 10. The goal of this course is to expand students' vocabulary and improve fluency, listening and reading comprehension, and grammatical accuracy in speaking and writing. Chapters 7 and 8 of the textbook will be covered. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Talk about your dream apartment, furniture, living situation and arrangements, craftsmen, garden, herbs and vegetables, eating habits, food, recipes, and a restaurant visit
• Formulate time and place information
• Express your own opinion, agree, and disagree
• Understand instructions for use
• Report on equipment and technology problems
• State a goal
• Talk about topics in the news: politics, economy, culture, sports, disasters, inventions, devices, and environmental problems.
• Review grammar: verbs with local clauses, temporal clauses (als, wenn), infinitives with ‘zu’, consecutive clauses (deshalb, trotzdem), alternating prepositions, passive, final statements (um … zu), prepositions with the dative
• Pronounce consonants and consonant compounds: sch /ʃ/, sp /ʃp/, st /ʃt/, ng /ŋ/ and nk /ŋk/
• Discuss colors: Wie mächtig sind sie?
• Discuss politics: Wer macht in Deutschland Politik? Wo macht man in Deutschland Politik?

Textbook: Begegnungen Deutsch als Fremdsprache A2+: Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch -Language: german (ISBN: 9783969150085)

GERMAN 12:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This is an intermediate (B1) level course. The goal of this course is to expand students' vocabulary and improve fluency, listening and reading comprehension, and grammatical accuracy in speaking and writing. The level 12 intermediate (B1) curriculum is covered over (four consecutive 6-week German 12 courses). Students who complete the German 12 curriculum should be able to:

• Talk about time, pastimes, work, career, media, advertisements, consumption, learning experiences and strategies, traffic, mobility, feelings, characteristics, cuisines, recipes, and restaurants.

• Use the following grammar: past tenses of regular and irregular verbs, mixed verbs, verbs with prepositions, gender of nouns, temporal prepositions and adverbs, modal verbs, subjunctive II: polite request, infinitive with ‘zu’, n-declension, infinitive constructions, passive (present, past, perfect), passive with modal verbs, subjunctive II: present and past, reflexive verbs, adjectives (declination and comparison), participles as adjectives, relative clauses, the functions of ‘werden’, conditional statements, final statements, noun-verb combinations, demonstrative pronouns, pluperfect, temporal clauses, local prepositions and adverbs, adjectives with prepositions, assumptions, reasons and counter-reasons, causal statements, concessive statements, consecutive statements, and prepositions with the genitive.

• Read and Discuss literature excerpts.

• Read about and discuss the news and important figures.

Textbook: Begegnungen Deutsch als Fremdsprache B1: Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch -Language: German  (ISBN: 9783969150115)

Private German lessons:

We offer private German language lessons. Private lessons are $80 per hour for 1 to 4 students. We will schedule lessons based on the availability of the student(s) and teacher. Start dates are flexible. Please register at least 2 weeks before your first lesson.