Learn German for beginners · A1
Free German A1 lessons with explanations and examples.
Lessons
- First steps: letters and sounds
- Hello! I’m Lena.
- Numbers and age
- My family
- Address and place of residence
- My day
- Food and drink
- Shopping
- First, then and after that
- Time and appointments
- Work and the journey there
- My home
- Bus and train: changing connections
- In the shop
- Asking for directions
- Getting around
- Trying clothes on
- German at work
- Making appointments
- At the doctor and the pharmacy
- Since yesterday
- Weather and clothing
- können, müssen, möchten
- The accusative made simple
- Everyday needs with brauchen
- aufstehen, einkaufen, anrufen
- Talking about yesterday
- A1 in real life
- What did you do?
- Alphabet and spelling
- Countries and languages
- Forms and personal details
- Spelling names clearly
- Clothes, colours, and sizes
- Free time and hobbies
- Inviting and visiting
- Invitations and meeting up
- Telephone calls and messages
- At a restaurant and café
- Quantities at the supermarket
- Paying together or separately
- At the hotel reception
- Post, letters, and parcels
- Banking, money, and paying
- Receipts and supporting documents
- At a public office
- German in a warehouse
- German for cleaning work
- Help with a form
- In German class
- Reading signs and notices
- Writing short messages
- Ask for repetition, slower speech and meaning
- Question words and sentence structure
- nicht and kein
- mit, bei, aus, zu and in
- Describe a sequence of actions
- Regular verbs in the present tense
- Using sein and haben
- Personal pronouns in everyday life
- Describe everyday routines
- Learning nouns with der, die and das
- Singular and plural
- mein, dein and Ihr
- Many, few and enough
- Nominative or accusative?
- Dative for people and common expressions
- Where? with in, an, auf and neben
- Asking for and giving help
- Wo or wohin?
- The verb in position two
- Time first: today, tomorrow, on Monday
- Opposite and between
- W-questions step by step
- Yes/no questions: verb first
- dürfen and sollen: permission and instructions
- How long?
- Understanding short instructions
- Separable verbs in everyday life
- The perfect tense with haben
- Steps and instructions
- The perfect tense with sein
- Yesterday, today and tomorrow
- Always, often, sometimes and never
- Talking about last week
- and, but and or
- A first look at weil
- Describing things with adjectives
- Also and only
- Bigger, smaller, better
- Numbers, measurements and quantities
- Dates and the calendar
- Comparing prices
- Making and changing appointments
- At the pharmacy
- At the dentist
- Does the appointment suit you?
- Emergency language and 112
- Reading supermarket labels
- Ordering online and sending items back
- What happened?
- Parcels and delivery
- Shift plans and working hours
- Reporting illness at work
- Breaks and working time
- Warehouse tasks: quantity and location
- Cleaning tasks and materials
- Workplace warning language
- Finished and not yet finished
- Reporting a repair problem
- Neighbours and shared spaces
- A1 everyday life: putting it together
- Keep learning and speak for yourself
Grammar