Vocabulary & Online Materials

High Frequency Vocabulary (=words you hear and see a lot, which are therefore super useful!)

• CHE's own Cameron Lund wrote a program to import the top 5000(sic!) words into Quizlet, and divided them into 100-word sets, starting with the most frequent. If you know the top 250 words well, let alone the top 500, then you already have the raw material for countless conversations!
  • https://quizlet.com/cameronlund4/folders/german-most-used-words-increment-100/sets
• LOTS of useful lists and ways to practice vocab: http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/vocab.html
• These are readings divided up by level according to a European Framework (A1, A2, B1):https://lingua.com/de/deutsch/lesen/
  • To put into perspective: an average student graduating after 4 years of German should feel comfortable with the A2 readings, and be able to get a foothold (at least) in the B1 readings.

Level 1 (and into two)

Expressions for all levels: https://quizlet.com/_6bodmr

--Verbs in the "ich"-form: https://quizlet.com/_6bo7nz

--Verbs in the "er/sie" form: https://quizlet.com/382404700/deutsch-1-important-verbs-in-the-ersie-form-flash-cards/?new

--Small Words that Do A Lot of Work: https://quizlet.com/382425025/deutsch-1-2-important-small-words-flash-cards/

--School Subjects: https://quizlet.com/382408603/schulfacher-all-flash-cards/?new

--Months and Seasons: https://quizlet.com/355628595/die-monate-und-jahreszeiten-flash-cards/

Level 2 and above

--High Frequency (Commonly used verbs - dictionary form) https://quizlet.com/382348745/german-high-frequency-verbs-infinitive-dictionary-form-flash-cards/

-_Expressing Opinion: https://quizlet.com/_6boeyv

Level 4 / AP

A comprehensive AP vocab list: https://quizlet.com/370259271/frau-schell-ap-german-vocabulary-flash-cards/

AP Email Vocab: https://quizlet.com/175749188/ap-german-email-vocabulary-flash-cards/

Herr Graff's Favorite Social Media Accounts for Learning German (note: these are not my accounts. While I have found that these acccounts post material that is appropriate for high school students, please engage all social media with a fair amount of caution)

Good German Words on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodGermanWords

Ralph Ruthe (Cartoonist) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ralphruthe