Learn German Fast – Complete A1 Beginner Course

Hello and welcome to this German A1 course. In order to participate in this course, you do not need any knowledge of the German language, because we literally start from zero. In this course, you will learn all needed grammar for the A1 level. You will also learn about the German pronunciation, writing, reading. We will do a lot of exercises also. You will receive homework after almost each chapter. And we will also do a preparation for the speaking and writing part of the official A1 exam. You will also learn a lot of important vocabulary with animated videos, which you need for the A1 level. And in general, it is a very complete course in which you will learn a lot. So I hope to see you as one of my students in this course. Und ich hoffe, wir sehen uns bald. Tschüss! Hallo! Willkommen zu Abschnitt 5. This chapter is about the colors. So let's learn the colors in German. Farben, this is the word for colors in German. As you see here. So let's start with the first one. If you like, you can repeat just for the pronunciation. Weiß, rosa, pink, lila, blau, grün, gelb, orange, rot, braun, schwarz, grau. And here, in this chart, you see how you can specify the shade. If the color is light. Light means hell in German. Hell. So you can add it in front of any color and then it means light. So hellblau is light blue. Hellgrün, light green. Hellrot, light red. Here you have the normal shades. Blau, grün, rot. And for dark, we say dunkel. You can add dunkel in front of any color and then it means that it's dark. Dunkelblau, dark blue. Dunkelgrün, dark green. Dunkelrot, dark red. Okay. So that was the chapter about the colors. As you see, some of them are similar to the English words. So please study them and see you in the next chapter. Tschüss! Ich bin der Vater. Guten Tag, ich bin die Mutter. Ich bin die Tochter. Hallöchen, ich bin der Sohn. Du bist der Opa, Großvater. Du bist die Oma, Großmutter. Du bist meine Schwester. Du bist mein Bruder. Das ist mein Onkel. Du bist mein Neffe. Du bist meine Mutter. Das ist meine Tante. Das ist mein Cousin. Das ist meine Cousine. Du bist mein Schwäger. Du bist mein Schwager. Du bist mein Schwiegersohn. Du bist mein Schwiegervater. Du bist meine Schwiegertochter. Du bist meine Schwiegermutter. hello in this chapter you will learn about the german numbers and this chapter is about the zahlen as we say in german for numbers okay let's have a look at how we say the numbers in german so here in the first part you have the zahl which means the number the word okay so i will read those numbers here from 1 till 20 and then you can repeat maybe just to practice okay 19 20 just to keep this in mind um usually from the 13th we just say the number and then we add same to it so just like in english uh 13 okay it's uh 3 it would be in english but here we just say the the the number the smaller number then we add 10 or 10 in german 13 14 as you see it's 4 which means 4 and then we add 10 to it which is 10. 16 is irregular because as you see here 6 has an s at the at the end but if you say 16 we don't have the s here it's just 16 um also with the 17 17 it's also irregular because here it's 7 we don't but we don't say 17 we just say 17 okay and then 11 12 is irregular also it's completely different 11 and 12 okay 20 is 20 so now um now let's learn how to say the numbers from the 20s in german it goes the other way around so in english it's 21 but in german we say 1 and 20 so as you see here um 1 and 20 means 21 so you say the smaller number first which is ein here and then you say und which is and and then you say 20 which is 20 21 you don't say eins und zwanzig because one by itself just one means eins but here if you if you if it's part of a bigger number you just say ein okay ein und zwanzig zwei und zwanzig drei und zwanzig vier und zwanzig fünf und zwanzig sechs und zwanzig sieben und zwanzig acht und zwanzig neun und zwanzig dreißig as you see what you have to do here you add the the number here you say und and then comes 20 at the end and we do it with all until the 90s 30 means 30 so ein und dreißig zwei und dreißig drei und dreißig vier und dreißig just a little bit um vier und dreißig fünf und dreißig sechs und dreißig sieben und dreißig acht und dreißig neun und dreißig as you see exactly the same as with the 20s but here at the beginning you say the small numbers you put und then in the middle and at the end comes whether it's 20 30 40 and so on it's always structured the same okay let's have a look here at the next ones so 40 is 40 50 is 50 60 is 60 70 is 70 80 is 80 90 is 90 and 100 is 100 again you would have to form it exactly the same as here if it was 88 you would say if it was 77 you would say sieben und siebzig and so on okay it's always the same so here we have 101 so it's 101 102 202 103 103 okay so you now from the 100s you start with the biggest number which is 100 and then you continue uh here with the smaller one so 114 is from the 100s on you start with the biggest number and then 25 you keep it exactly the same as we have learned in this chart okay so 125 means 125 136 is 136 147 147 158 169 then 170 180 190 just for you to see how we do this okay and let's look at the 100s it would be formed exactly the same as here with those examples here but now you just would say 200 and so on okay so it's 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 as you see you just say the smaller number first um it's exactly as in english 100 200 300 and so on and then you say 100 at the end okay please don't with the pronunciation please don't say hundreds many people say hundreds like from the 100 in english in german it's okay it's not 100 100 then uh here the next one 1000 means 1000 so let's look at the thousands here how we say that 1001 now again we start with the biggest one which is 1000 1001 here we have 1111 1111 okay this the order is the same as in english start with the biggest one then comes the smaller and then comes the smallest here we have 1222 which means 1222 so here we have the biggest 1000 then comes the hundreds and here with 22 if with the tens um here you have again to start with the very smallest and you say and and then comes the 20 or 30 and so on this does not change here until the 100 400 i'll just zoom it a little bit um i'm so now we looked until the thousands uh now the next chart here um let's go through them i will maybe you can repeat if you like it's as you see you just say the smaller number just as in english 7 000 8 000 9 000 and so on okay this is how we how we form the thousand um here we have okay here we have 41 234 in german it would be just as in english 41 000 right the difference here is just that we would when the tens uh if it's about uh 10 20 30 and so on but we start with the smaller number and then we say uh 20 30 okay that's the difference here this number is here we have 90 000 okay now the next slide uh this looks a little bit complicated as you see no matter how long the the number is we write it all together okay in german so um now there are different now different numbers here which are a little bit more complicated but it's just for you to practice that a little bit so here we have i please i have a look at that several times and really um like split the the words here okay very important i know it looks a little bit complicated because it's such a long word but that's why it's marked in colors and bold and uh in both letters so you get easier to to see what is what here to uh to um distinguish those words here here we have okay again it's just a practice here one million okay so here here we have and uh let's look at this number here um now to be honest it's uh exceeding the a1 level here okay but um so i just wanted to put here so you have a complete chapter about the numbers and then you know if you really study this chapter then you're good with the numbers for the rest of your german journey and um so it would be great if you take some time and study that all of course if you if it's too much maybe you can learn at least until the thousands for the a1 level and if you get to the a2 level maybe you can study the rest of you like okay it's just a complete chapter about numbers here so here this word super long here i will read it okay now we have here now this word here uh this number okay i will read it uh please have a closer look at that listen to that several times and please look exactly at the numbers that you see here and that you that are written here in the number so it's okay this is that number very long we write it all together uh please have a look and um and study as far as you can okay so the next slide is about the prices uh okay so if we write a price we do it this way um we put a comma there not a dot like in the united states for example we put a comma and this one is 1 euro 99 so this is how we write it we okay uh if it's a u.s dollar or whatever it is i'll put it at the end so if you go to a store in germany for example the prices are written like this the currency or here in germany of course the euro is after the the price but if we say the price we say it's exactly as in english 1 euro 99 right you put the currency between uh the bigger let's say here the the euro and the cents comes in the middle also if you talk about other currencies if it would be one dollar 99 or uh one peso 90 or a pound or whichever currency you're using it comes between um the cents or pennies and then the the currency the bigger and the amount okay 1 euro 99 here another example 19 euros uh 95 and then 200 euro okay if there are no cents you just put it at the end here no pennies or cents so it's just 200 euro then the next one if we talk about percent in german okay please not confuse it with english it's not but in german so here for example it's twelve percent twelve percent here again please keep in mind we we separate the big and the smaller numbers with the comma not with the dot in german okay so here it's three comma five two percent we say three comma five two percent it's not 52 then it's not three comma 52 but three comma five two we say here we have um and here it's just one percent one percent the next one are the fraction numbers uh we call them in german let's have a look at how we do this is one third so as you see here what you have to do you just say the number now this one these here are irregular but here you just say the number and you add tell at the end as you see you just add a tell at the end this one is irregular we don't say right we say when the seven that's always just a short form also for example right we don't say we just say it's the same case here we have to take away the e and at the end of here we have and here's from the 20s on if you use fraction numbers from the 20s on we don't just add tell at the end but we add still okay it's one six still not one six tell but one six still so from the 20s on you add still to the number so if it what it would would be uh for example uh one uh 30 uh 35th for example it would be from the 20s on okay so that was a quite complete uh chapter about the german numbers please have a look at them and of course if it's a little bit too much with the billions and millions in german um what you need i would suggest at least for the a1 level to study that until the thousands at least and then later on you can study the rest if um if it's too much for now but the friction numbers of course and the prices and so on are quite important also for the a1 level okay i hope you enjoyed this chapter don't have a headache after all those numbers and see you in the next chapter and this chapter you're going to learn how to address people in the formal way in the german language so this chapter is about the formal salutation unlike as in english and german we have the formal and the informal way to talk to people and this is what uh what this chapter is about okay so let's have a look at the first slide so if you talk to somebody in the formal way let's say in the nominative case okay this is about the nominative here if you're addressing somebody directly you have to say z um z for if you talk to just one person in the formal way but also if you talk to a group of people in the formal way that's the good thing because the conjugation does not change it's exactly the same as the third form plural in right when you say the gain which means they go okay it's exactly the same conjugation if you say the gain it would also mean you go if you talk to somebody in a formal way to a group of people as well as just with one if you speak to one person okay now let's have a look at um where we use that if you use that in in business letters for example make sure that you always write it in capital letters this is very important if you write it in small letters it either means she or they okay the meaning would change so please write it in capitals very important um so we use that in um so when we when we talk to somebody directly okay it's not when we talk about a person at whom we would address in the formal way we don't say z then it's just direct salutation or talking to somebody directly it is um the polite and formal way to approach a person okay here in german unknown persons if you meet people on the street uh and you asked for directions for example or for some kind of information you would use the polite form unless the person is younger than you or maybe the same age um you have to you have to look uh like then with the time if you if you live in germany or if you spend some time in germany you will tell when you have to talk to somebody in the formal way and when not um okay but usually for example in stores they would um they would address you in the formal way it also depends on the city where you are if you are in berlin for example people don't take it too serious on the street and so on in restaurants and stores uh they would very often just say do to you in the informal way but if you go to the smaller towns where the culture is more german not as uh as international as in berlin for example uh then it is more important to watch out for that because it can come across as impolite to address somebody who do instead of z in certain situations but of course if the people see that you are still learning german that you are maybe that you are not a native or don't speak german fluently um of course nobody will complain but it's a kind of unwritten rule between germans that you if you call in an institution to get information for example that you have to address the people in in the formal way okay so here um another situation where we use the formal way is when we talk about uh to all the uh to all the people okay as to the person and authority if you talk to the police on the street if you talk to professors to teachers to doctors and so on then you would also address them with z and in business also especially if you don't know the business partner yet uh if you meet somebody new in business uh you would it's always better to start with the z and status of do because it can come it can come across as a little bit unprofessional uh depending on the industry of course in the situation and office but you you're better off if you start with uh with the formal salutation okay so that are the situations where you need the formal way of addressing people now let's have a look at how we construct that or how we use that so here um as i've explained already before the singular and the plural form are identical okay singular and plural you conjugate them the same way so let's have a look at um a conjugation here of the sentence which means i'm writing a book or i write a book okay so let's have a look at all that's the third person plural here right the last conjugation it means they are writing a book but you can as you see here they are writing a book or it also it could also mean you are writing a book if you talk to somebody um in the formal way okay very important um if you ask a question it would be means are you writing a book but this is now the formal way of talking to somebody so here it could be either that you speak to just one person it can also mean that you talk to a group of people in the formal way it depends on the context the conjugation is exactly the same the personal pronoun is also the same so you just have to watch out for the context of the situation to understand whether somebody is talking to a group of people or just to one person for you yourself if you talk to somebody in the formal way right you have to use the conjugation of the third person plural and you if you have to write it please write it in capitals very important always in capitals okay so you are writing a book uh you talk to somebody in the formal way you are writing a book to a group of people or to just one person very important okay then uh the next one here we have a few examples where we could use the formal z let's have a look at the first sentence means excuse me do you know where the city hall is okay you can just say in the informal way you just can say in the informal way you would have to say you can also say for the formal and informal way it would be equal but here in the formal way it would be this is now nobody can confuse it whether you talk to somebody in the informal way or not do you know where the city hall is now there's a chapter on on how to form questions in this course here we have a question this and z means do you know uh for a question you have you have to start with the verb then comes the personal pronoun in the normal main clause or in a normal sentence structure you start with the subject then comes the verb right so if i say right it would be you know whether where the city hall is in the formal way when talking to people here it's a question so first comes the word and then comes the subject okay so this is in a situation where you ask somebody on the street about directions okay you would have to address them in the formal way are you interested in this offer so this for example is in business context right so you would have to say again this is a question so first comes the verb and then comes the subject okay then have you already uh or mr muller in english sorry mr muller have you already corrected my homework here is the word for mister in german okay here's again the formal way we write it in capitals um we are asking mr muller miss schultz could you send me further documents this is what that means so frau is the same as the english miss now frau also means woman right it has two meanings it means either woman or miss depending uh on the context and the situation okay so that were a few examples when we use the formal way of talking to people and just for you to to get an um a feeling for for that okay and just to see that here how are we using that good so that was the chapter about the formal way of addressing people please learn that if you are in germany if you're talking to germany you're calling somewhere to get information please try to apply that okay um as i said it can can it can quite um come across as uh impolite if you talk let's say at a university to get some information if you talk to the people directly would do germans are they need some space and first before getting to know somebody better and addressing them would do it take some time for some longer for others less uh but it's better to um to use a little bit uh distance before addressing somebody directly with doom okay good i hope you enjoyed this chapter and see you in the next one cheese hello so here you will see mixed cognates of different origins and uh most of them which you have not seen yet here in this course uh some of them we have or many of them okay but here they are they are mixed but also about different subjects and i will read um some of them uh to you not all of them because uh for example the adoption you have learned in the previous videos and if you have seen your t1 at the end you would pronounce it as c o okay the adoption so you will know the pronunciation of words with this ending so let's see if you like you can also repeat next one here uh let's see what else could be new and maybe difficult uh yeah actually yeah for example the let's see what else we have um the but it's an english word i mean so here you see um we pronounce it the english way it's an english word let's see what else uh the the okay you don't forget it's pronounced like quality and quantity there we would say here their song we pronounce it the english way we also just say the only just a short version okay so that was it the first video about mixed cognates in the next chapter you will see some more mixed cognates okay and that will be also the last video and the last list that i will share with you so see you in the next and last video hello and welcome to chapter 10 in this chapter you will learn the gender rules in german this will help you a lot in order to find out whether a noun is female masculine or neutral so this chapter will help you a lot if you have troubles with defining the gender of nouns in german which is very possible okay so this chapter which are the gender rules so let's start with the feminine articles um okay which is the feminine article d and here you have the feminine endings so how to define whether a noun is female for example a hint are the endings of the nouns so whenever you see certain endings you know it must be female they are you will always find exceptions but here the endings that you will learn on this slide they are most of the time they are female okay so if you study them this will help you a lot in order to define the gender and it is very important to know the gender of the nouns in german grammar you will see how important it is later on when you when you start learning the grammatical cases and the adjective declination and so forth and so on okay so let's have a look at the first ending here which is i the ending i is the typical female ending which means the bakery the library we have many more words for example and so on okay i is a in this is the female version of let's say of a person because while in english you always say for example teacher and you and then just by teacher by the word itself you don't know whether the person is female or masculine in german it is very important to define whether the person is female or masculine if you talk about a professor teacher neighbor and so on and so forth you have to add the ending i n okay most of the time this i n means that the person you talk about is female so for example is a female teacher if you just say without the ending i n it means that the teacher is masculine okay um this is a typical female ending is a female student if you just then it's a male student uh we with we use that very often okay we also have of course a few exceptions but the ending i n is typical for a female uh noun or female person also and then we have kite kite is a typical female ending similarity possibility height okay gesundheit um like height so minor okay ah at the end or a camera for example all typical female endings then we have etter like the toilette the tigarette for example ie at the end which is pronounced like a long i right so it's e this is pronounced a little bit different but the ie at the end is typical for female nouns physique um then ena machina blondina okay uh blondina is the blunt woman young communication production then we have uh this uh doses skeptics for example so basically what you would have to do here is to learn those endings by heart which will help you really a lot to define the articles if you want to train them uh there are also different applications that you can find in the in the app store you can put in um article training or there are different uh apps on in the play store and then you can they're also uh they're also for free they don't cost anything most of them and then you can just train the articles and the uh the the nouns and their articles okay this is a big help um you can try that out but uh learning those endings uh would be also a great help for you okay so let's have a look at the next slide this slide is about the masculine endings it's about the masculine article damn so here let's have um at the masculine uh endings for example like they're horny they're cool okay if you want to say a female student student is a student who goes to university in the last slide we looked at this is the student who goes to school let's say high school primary school and so on student is just for students at university and if you want to say that this student is female you would have to say student ending the in okay and then again tin would be the female agent uh here it's the or again in german then yeah at the end indonesia you will hear okay is is a typical masculine ending buddhist pianist here again you can add an in and then it's the female version so here buddhist uh that's the masculine buddhist uh you would have to say if it was a female or pianist tin will be the female pianist then uh here the other endings or their motor their core here this is the masculine hairdresser if it was a female you would have to say okay with the in at the end uh then we have romantica chemica again exactly the same rule you would have to add an in in order to say that it's a woman and it's very important to specify like i myself for example i cannot say means teacher if i say it means that i'm a man i'm a male teacher this is what i'm saying if i okay to stress out that i'm that i'm a female very important in german i know in english if you're an english native speaker uh that doesn't really make a difference you just say i'm a teacher i'm a professor and so on but in german you have to to distinguish okay very palace is the palace and um this is how we pronounce it okay um let's have a look at the last slide here it's about the neutral uh article does a neutral nouns okay here we have typical neutral endings uh let's start with the first one here and line at the end of a noun means it's the diminutive form it means that something is small maybe sweet okay um so here and it means girl and it's now it's maybe a little bit confusing for people why is the girl neutral in the german language it's obviously a female it comes from the old german language uh we used to say marked to woman and it came from the word marked and it actually means a little woman okay so the girl is a little woman uh we at the end the ending which is which means that the person or the the object is small um that's why is neutral in german it's because of the ending here so think of a little woman and then uh then you know why it is uh for the girl instead of right it exists but it means the girls it would be the plural form if you say the nation okay the singular just one girl then we have it means the little bottle or let's say the baby bottle it's a little bit old-fashioned to say that so this is all small objects or persons okay the next ending is here we have an ei at the end so we pronounce it as ei together is always pronounced as i okay but still the ending here the last two is i n so it's neutral now it can be confusing because actually in i just taught you that i n at the end means that it's a female version of an of a person let's say of a being it's also for animals for example we often add an i n in order to specify that the the animal is is female now there are of course always exceptions okay so here benzene it's about gasoline now we don't have to distinguish or we can't whether the gasoline is female or masculine right it's not about gender here um so here it's neutral in this case just as with bewusstsein it's not about whether the person or the uh the being is female or masculine in this case it's uh that's why it's neutral is das bewusstsein okay keep that in mind that not all nouns that have an i n at the end are female it can be also neutral if it's not about uh specifying the gender of the of the object the person let's say or the auto then infinitive here we can take any any verb in german like here lernen actually means to learn but we can form a noun of every word that we have so we can say which would mean the learning is fun to me now of the verb lernen we have formed an activity a noun and then whenever we do this it's always neutral then just make sure that you write it in capitals very important in german all nouns need to be written in capitals because if you don't do this the meaning can completely change like for example the word morgen morgen written in small letters means tomorrow but if you write it in capitals that it means the morning okay and it happens very often that the meaning changes so please make sure that you that you uh write all nouns in capitals uh in german schools we are drilled to write it the right way okay because it really makes a difference so whenever you take a verb and you form a noun it's always neutral okay spielen here like the playing as an activity and it would become a noun so you would have to say okay then the next one and whenever you have the beginning uh game let's say this prefix game most of the time the noun is but there are also quite a few exceptions okay but if you have a word that starts with gay and now you're confused and you have to decide quick whether it's female masculine neutral the chances are very big that it's neutral okay so that's the gender um okay so you will have to learn those endings here um there are quite many but it will help you okay later on you will see how important it is to know the gender of the nouns and keep in mind please to write the the nouns always in capital letters okay so please study this chapter have a look a couple of times to learn the endings and also to train you can use the apps on the play store um you can put in as i said daddy does or article training um okay and then you can you can train them whenever you have a couple of minutes spare time okay good