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German for beginners — A1 to B1

German, made clear.

Learn from first principles. Three shapes, thirty sounds, one clear path to your first real conversation.

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01 / Die Sprache — the language

The parts

Every language is built from parts.

The letters

AÄOÖUÜ

Even the strange ones are simple underneath.
Two dots. That's the whole trick.

The sentence

Everything is clear.

Your first sentence — ten minutes in

02 / Die Grammatik — the grammar

Grammar you can see.

Three principles carry most of A1 grammar. The first is why this whole page is red, blue, and yellow.

Color is grammar

Every noun arrives with its gender built in. Der is blue. Die is red. Das is yellow. You stop memorizing tables and start seeing them.

der Tisch

the table — masculine

die Lampe

the lamp — feminine

das Haus

the house — neuter

Position is meaning. Cases are positions, not punishments — der, den, dem, des is one word doing three jobs.

Words come apart. Separable verbs split on purpose. We show you the seam, so it never surprises you again.

03 / Der Kurs — the course

Built to hold together.

78 lessons from A1 to B1. Each one assembled from pieces you've already mastered — nothing arrives before its parts do.

A1A2B1

Try it — ten seconds

Build your first sentence.

Tap the words in order: “Everything is clear.”

Alles
ist
klar
Alles ist klar — your first German sentence. Lesson 01 has nineteen more.
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