In the German A1 level courses, you will use familiar and everyday expressions and very simple sentences that aim to meet specific needs. You learn how to introduce yourself and ask other people questions about them (e.g. where they live, who they know or what they own).

Main Topics

• Introduce yourself
• Countries
• Occupations
• Daily schedule
• The alphabet and the numbers
• Languages and countries
• People and hobbies
• Arranging appointments
• The seasons and the weather
• Destinations
• Means of transport
• Living & the home furnishings
• Health
• Excuses
• The work, and the workplace
• Map
• Food and drinks

Grammar

• Personal pronouns
• The group of nouns: der/die/das/
• The negation
• Preposition of place
• Personal pronouns in the accusative case
• Verbs
• Prepositions of time
• Sentence connectives: conjunctions
• The group of nouns
• Indicators of space
• Adjectives

In the German A2 level courses, you will understand sentences and repeated expressions related to areas of very immediate importance (e.g. information about a person and their family, shopping). You can communicate in simple situations (e.g. the direct exchange of information about familiar and everyday life).

Main Topics

• Professions and activities
• Telling about the past
• School, training, curriculum vitae
• Daily schedule, leisure activities
• Purchasing and spending money
• Words about money
• The dream of wealth: What if…?
• In the office, on the phone, making appointments
• Vacation
• Planning a trip
• Animals and dangerous animals
• Living: Garden, City etc.
• Healthy nutrition
• National and international news
• Theme: Environment
• Theme: Technology

Grammar

• The perfect tense
• The group of nouns
• The negation
• Main and subordinate clauses
• Verbs with dative and accusative
• Subjunctive II
• Nouns indicators of time
• Casus
• Indicators of space
• The group of nouns
• Adjectives
• The perfect tense
• Verbs + Prepositions
• Space and time prepositions

In B1 level German courses, you will understand the main points of the conversation if the speaker uses a clear-cut language and concerns familiar topics such as work, school, leisure, etc. You can handle most situations, e.g. encountered when travelling within the language area. You can express yourself simply and coherently about familiar topics and personal areas of interest. You can talk about experiences and events, describe dreams and goals in life, and give brief explanations about plans and opinions.

Main Topics

• Time and activities
• Punctuality
• Leisure time: Museums
• Leisure time: Fine arts
• Vocations
• Problems at work
• Manners in business life
• Past and childhood
• Media
• Advertising: Impact and history
• Advertising: Products and their properties
• The complaint
• Language learning
• Lifelong learning
• School, certificates, and grades
• Traffic problems
• Means of transport
• Vacation
• Feelings of happiness
• Qualities
• Stress, anger, and joy
• Food, German recipes, eating in the restaurant
• Invitations and good wishes

Grammar

• The past tenses: Perfect / Preterite / Past Perfect
• Interrogative particles
• Modal verbs, brauchen + zu
• The past subjunctive (polite requests, wishes, past)
• Verbs + dative + accusative
• N – Declination
• Indicators of time
• Adverbs of time
• Reflexive verbs
• The passive
• Adjectives (comparative/superlative)
• The genitive
• Relative clauses
• Indicators of condition (Conditional)
• Final clauses
• Nouns – Verb – Connectors
• Time clauses: simultaneity, non-simultaneity
• Adjectives + Prepositions
• Enumerations
• Causes and consequences

In B2 level German courses, you will learn to understand the basic idea of challenging texts: e.g. specialist texts from a particular field.

You will – 

• be able to communicate spontaneously and without problems with native speakers of German.
• be able to clearly formulate your own opinion and the reasons for it.
• be able to express facts from the respective field of interest or subject without difficulty.

Main Topics

• School, Training
• Interpersonal relations
• Living and renting
• Travel, trouble on vacation & complaint letters
• Cultural differences in professional life
• Europe and the Germans
• Smalltalk
• E-mails and telephone calls
• Activities & Leisure
• University
• History and politics
• News from all over the world
• Crime Stories

Grammar

• Modal verbs
• Past tense of the verbs: perfect / -preteritum / past perfect
• Declination of adjectives
• Indicators of space: prepositions of two cases
• The passive
• n – Declination
• Causal and effect indicators: weil, denn, deshalb, so…dass etc.
• The subjunctive II: politeness, unreality, the subjunctive II in the past
• Reaction of verbs
• Position of words in a sentence
• Indicators of time
• Indicators of condition (Conditional)
• Subjunctive I : Indirect speech
• Subjunctive I Alternate forms
• Nouns—Verbs—Connections

In C1 level German courses, you will understand both demanding and longer texts, as well as their implicit meanings.

You will – 

• Express yourself fluently and spontaneously without having to look for words.
• Be able to use the language effectively and flexibly in everyday, social or professional life / studies.
• Express yourself clearly and structured on complex topics and you can use different resources to link texts.

Main Topics

• Luck
• Stress
• Laughing
• Success: sport and profession
• Failures
• Progress
• The environment and climate
• The history of the division of Germany
• The Wall
• Living in the GDR
• History and politics
• Music & Photography

Grammar

• Sentence connectives: Subordinate clauses
• Adjectives with a prepositional case
• Two-part sentence connectives
• Sentence connectives: main sentences
• Modal verbs
• Subjunctive II
• Prepositions with the genitive
• Expressing assumptions
• Relative clauses
• Extended modifiers
• Declination of adjectives
• Fixed connectives
• Participles and adjectives as nouns
• Subjunctive I
• Imperative
• Nominalization
• The passive and alternative forms

In C2 level German courses, you will understand practically everything you read or hear without any problems. You can summarize information from different sources and present justifications and explanations uniformly. You can express yourself promptly, very fluently and precisely and be able to clarify subtle nuances within complex topics.

Main Topics

• Communication and the media
• History and memories
• Feelings, lies, strengths and weaknesses
• School time
• Career opportunities and professions
• Technical progress
• Environment and pollution
• Medicine
• Special skills
• Feelings
• Living
• Art & Creativity
• Books and literature
• Politics

Grammar

• Tenses of the verbs
• Verbs with prefixes, which may or may not be separable
• Subjunctive II
• Subjunctive I
• Adverbial clauses
• Verbs and their complements
• Noun connectors
• Word formation of the nouns
• Participle as an adjective
• Nominalized adjectives and participles
• Relative clauses
• Passive replacement forms
• Declination and comparison of adjectives
• Adjectives and their complements
• Word formation of the adjectives
• Nominal style
• Prepositions of the written language