German Phrases and Vocabulary
Welcome to the Aderalingua German Vocabulary course. This is a free, online course to help you learn to speak the German language. If you already know some German, it is a great way for you to review and improve your German speaking skills.
This course concentrates on German phrases and vocabulary to help you get speaking the German language quickly. The vocabulary lessons cover topics such as common phrases, people, nature, the house, kitchen items, colors, food and restaurants, numbers, and transportation.
The lessons contain many pictures to help you associate the German words with the objects they represent. Most lessons contain online flashcards to help you learn the German words and phrases. Quizzes are also included with some of the lessons.
Unit 2 contains lessons in German grammar to help you speak the language correctly. These lessons also include common German adjectives, adverbs, verbs, adjectives, and conjunctions.
Unit 3 contains short stories in both English and German to help improve your German reading comprehension. Some stories are also read in German to help you improve your listening comprehension and pronunciation. This course also contains links to several documentaries and movies in German to help you understand spoken German.
Let's get started learning German.
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Unit 1 - German Phrases and Vocabulary
This unit includes some very common German words and phrases. Flashcards are included in the lessons to help you learn these useful words and phrases.
Lesson 1 - Introductions and Greetings
Lesson 2 - Common German Phrases
Lesson 6 - The Body
Lesson 7 - At home
Lesson 8 - Nature
Phrases used for talking about the weather are also included.
Lesson 9 - Transportation
Lesson 10 - Date and Time
Lesson 11 - Food and Drinks
Useful phrases to use in restaurants and cafés are also included.
Lesson 12 - Clothes
Lesson 14 - In the City
Useful phrases for asking directions and shopping are also included.
Unit 2 - German Grammar
This unit gives an overview of German grammar. The lessons in this section will help you speak German correctly. Common adjectives, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions are also included in these lessons.
Lesson 1 - Alphabet and Pronunciation
Lesson 3 - German Nouns
Lesson 4 - German Adjectives
This lesson also includes a list of very common German adjectives.
Lesson 5 - Present Tense
You'll also learn some common German verbs.
Lesson 6 - Talking about the Past
You'll also learn more common German verbs.
Lesson 7 - German Modal Verbs
These verbs are used to indicate possibility, obligation, ability, and desire.
Lesson 8 - Talking about the Future
You'll also learn more common German verbs.
Lesson 9 - German Prepositions
A list of common prepositions is also included.
Lesson 10 - German Adverbs
A list of common adverbs is also included.
Lesson 12 - Adjective Suffixes
You'll also learn some suffixes that are used to create adjectives.
Lesson 13 - Subjunctive Mood of Verbs
Learn more common German verbs in this lesson.
Unit 3 - German Stories and Documentaries
This unit contains short stories in German. The English version of each story is shown beside the German version to help your understanding of the story. The aim of these stories is to improve your reading comprehension in German and increase your German vocabulary. Don't worry about understanding every word in the story. The more you read the story, the better your comprehension will become. This unit also contains some documentaries in German.
Hansel und Gretel
Schneewittchen
Rapunzel
Documentaries and Movies
Review and Practice
This section contains tests to help you review and practice what you have learned in this course, as well as to help you test your progress. You can take the tests as many times as you like. The questions will be a bit different each time you try.
Learning Tips
Here are a few tips to help you learn German.
- Try and spend at least fifteen minutes a day learning German.
- Spend some time every week writing in German: short conversations, descriptive paragraphs, and/or whatever comes to mind.
- When you have a few minutes free time, try thinking in German. You can think about your surroundings, things you plan to do, or just try and remember common German phrases.
- If you have friends who speak German, or are learning, try to speak with them in German.
- Once you have learned some German vocabulary, try watching German movies and tv shows, and reading German stories like the ones included in this course.
More German Learning Resources
This section contains a list of resources to help you learn to speak the German language.
Google Translate provides German to English and English to German translations.
Project Gutenberg has some free German ebooks.
Here are a few online German newspapers.
Listen to online radio and tv to help improve your listening skills.
Online German TV Shows, documentaries and movies at Das Erste, including the German police drama Tatort. Note: This show is only available after 8:00 PM German time.
ZDF has online German TV shows, movies, and documentaries.