A1(Lower): Words, Terms & Phrases
In this section you will be introduced to basic German vocabulary.
1. Cardinal Numbers
1.1 "1 - 12" -> What do they sound like? [Audio]*
1.2 "1 - 12" -> German Bundesliga scores [Audio]*
1.3 "1 - 12" -> Missing numbers (I)
1.4 "1- 12" -> Missing Numbers (II)
1.5 "1 - 12" -> Sudoku (for Sudoku fans)
1.6 "1 - 20" -> A lot of fruit & veg [Audio]*
1.7 "1 - 20" -> Team players (for sports enthusiasts)
1.8 "1 - 20" -> Roman numerals
1.9 "1 - 20" -> A number pyramid (for maths enthusiasts)
1.10 "1 - 100" -> Ishihara Colour Vision Test
1.11 "1 - 100" -> Missing numbers
1.12 "1 - 100" -> Numerical sequences
1.13 "1 - 100" -> Fractions to percentages [Audio]
1.14 "1 - 100" -> Deutschland 83
1.15 "1 - 100" -> Geography & politics
1.16 "1 - 100" -> Number of inhabitants
1.17 "1 - 1000" -> Money, money, money [Audio]
1.18 "1 - 10 000" -> That's high! [Audio]*
1.19 "1 - 1 000 000" -> Germany's largest cities
1.20 "1 - 1 000 000" -> Ever increasing amounts
1.21 "1 -1 000 000" -> From words to digits
1.22 Years: Famous musical releases
1.23 Years: Roman numerals
2. Colours
2.1 Colourful Munich
2.3 Rainbow
2.4 Colourful soccer (for sports enthusiasts)
2.5 Paintbox
2.6 The "Ampelmännchen" from Berlin
3. Continents
3.1 Bad at geography [Audio]
4. Countries
4.1 Germany's neighbouring countries
4.4 Countries & Currencies (I)
4.5 Countries & Currencies (II)
4.6 A multi-kulti basketball team [Audio]*
4.7 Countries in the European Union (I)
4.8 Countries in the European Union (II)
5. Days of the week
5.1 From Monday to Sunday (I) [Audio]
5.2 From Monday to Sunday (II)
5.3 A hectic week [Audio]*
5.4 No food today!
6. Describing with adjectives
6.1 Opposites (I)
6.2 Opposites (II)
6.3 Opposites (III)
6.4 Opposites (IV) [Audio]
6.5 Mineral water at a careers fair [Audio]
6.7 Small riddles
6.8 Typically German? [Audio]
7. Expressing preferences
8. Expressions of frequency
8.1 Never again!
8.2 From always to never [Audio]*
9. False friends
9.1 "gift" & "Gift"
9.2 "mist" & "Mist"
9.3 "Kind" & "kind" [Audio]
10. Family & Relations
10.1 Hänsel & Gretel [Audio]
10.2 Male & Female
10.3 Out of two make one [Audio]
10.4 The inlaws (I)
10.5 The inlaws (II)
10.6 One or more? (I)
10.7 One or more? (II)
10.8 One or more? (III)
10.9 One or more? (IV)
10.10 One or more? (V)
10.11 Kain und Abel
10.12 The Simpsons (I)
10.13 The Simpsons (II)
10.14 Family relationship
10.15 A nice snap-shot [Audio]*
11 Food & drink
11.1 Lots of drinks (I) [Audio]
11.2 Lots of drinks (II) [Audio]
11.3 The Irish could have come up with that one
11.4 Lots of fruit (I) [Audio]
11.5 Lots of fruit (II) [Audio]
11.6 Likes & dislikes [Audio]*
11.7 In a café [Audio]*
11.8 Food throughout the day [Audio]
11.9 The lunch deal
11.10 Let's puzzle over some letters
11.11 Can we go for a bite to eat?
12. Generic names
12.1 Gerneric terms (1a)
12.2 Generic terms (1b)
12.3 Generic terms (2a)
12.4 Generic terms (2b)
13. gern(e)
13.1 "gern(e)" - But he doesn't! [Audio]
13.2 "gern(e)" or things I like to do
13.3 "gern(e)" or more things I like to do
14. Giving directions
14.1 Potential destinations in a city
14.2 How do I get to ....? (I)
14.3 How do I get to ....? (II)
15. Greetings, Good wishes & Farewells
15.1 The basics (I) [Audio]
15.2 The basics (II)
15.3 Greetings & Good wishes: For all occasions (I)
15.4 Greetings & Good wishes: For all occasions (II)
15.5 Greetings & Good wishes: The devil is in the detail (I)
15.6 Greetings & Good wishes: The devil is in the detail (II)
15.7 Greetings & Good wishes: The devil is in the detail (III)
15.8 What's the appropriate thing to say? (I)
15.9 What's the appropriate thing to say? (II)
16. Homonyms
16.1 "weiß" versus "weiß"
16.2 Morgen! Morgen! [Audio]
17. Languages
17.1 Country or language? [Audio]
17.2 So what is your mother tongue?
17.3 Language skills [Audio]*
18. Means of transport
18.1 Different modes of transport
18.2 Air, water, road or track?
18.3 Famous modes of transport [Audio]
19. Months & Seasons
19.1 All the months throughout a year (I)
19.2 All the months throughout a year (II) [Audio]
19.3 And the month is ...
19.4 April, April, April [Audio]
19.5 The four seasons (I) [Audio]
20. Musical instruments
20.1 Playing musical instruments (I) [Audio]
20.2 Playing musical instruments (II)
21. Ordinal Numbers
21.1 The month of May
21.2 Which semester are you in?
21.3 What is today's date? [Audio]
21.4 Dates done differently [Audio]
21.5 Events throughout the year (I) [Audio]
21.6 Events throughout the year (II) [Audio]
21.7 Famous composers (I) [Audio]*
21.8 Famous composers (II) [Audio]*
22. Personal information
22.1 The bare bones [Audio]*
22.2 More bare bones [Audio]*
22.3 A business card (I)
22.4 A business card (II)
22.5 Matthias Baumann about himself (I) [Audio]*
22.6 Matthias Baumann about himself (II) [Audio]*
22.7 Claudia Zeller about herself [Audio]*
22.8 Dictation: One student in Germany [Audio]*
22.9 Isabell talks about herself [Audio]*
23. Professions
23.1 It runs in the family [Audio]
24. Riddles
24.1 A riddle for lovers of adventure stories
24.2 A riddle related to calender dates
25. School & college life
25.1 A dialogue in a lecture hall
25.2 What to say in class [Audio]
25.3 More things to say in class
25.4 Snatches of conversations overheard in a student cafeteria in Heidelberg (I)
25.5 Useful phrases in a German class (I) [Audio]
25.6 Useful phrases in a German class (II) [Audio]
26. Shopping
26.3 Opening hours
26.4 A DB ServiceStore in Schwetzingen
26.5 All these strawberries [Audio]*
27. Sports
27.1 All kinds of sport
27.2 A lot of sporty people [Audio]
27.3 Stating the bleedin' obvious
27.4 A sporty family [Audio]*
28.Telling Time
28.1 Times of the day (I) [Audio]
28.3 Time units
28.4 Measuring Time (I) [Audio]
28.5 Measuring Time (II)
28.6 Measuring Time (III) [Audio]
28.7 It's one o'clock and time for lunch!
28.8 May 8th 1945
28.9 Different ways of telling the time
28.10 What time is it?
29. Weather
29.1 A basic weather report (I) [Audio]*
29.2 A basic weather report (II) [Audio]*
29.3 The Temperature [Audio]
30. Word families
30.1 Nouns & verbs
30.2 More nouns & verbs
31. And finally: Easy to mix up
31.1 "wer" & "wo" [Audio]