How do you say the days of the week, the months and the seasons in German, and which article do they take? In this lesson Luzi goes through the seven weekdays, the six times of the day, the twelve months and the four seasons, and gives you one easy gender rule that covers almost all of them.

The 7...

This lesson introduces the most important German family vocabulary, with articles and plurals. You learn your close family, your extended family, and your own family, plus a bonus tip for in-law and step relatives.

Close Family

The easiest way to learn German adjectives is to learn each one together with its opposite. This lesson gives you the 40 most common adjectives as 20 pairs, and every pair comes with an example sentence and a small fact about Germany.

How to Learn Adjectives: Das Gegenteil von ...

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According to Duden, these are the ten most common German verbs. Most of them are basic verbs. Modal verbs are left out here, because they get their own lesson. For each verb you get the meaning, the full present-tense conjugation and an example sentence.

Conjugation Overview

These basic German words and phrases cover greetings, politeness, questions and small talk. You may know some of them already, but there is usually one or two you can still add. The bonus tip explains bitte, which has many different meanings.

The Basic Words

In German you say the small number first: 24 is “four and twenty”. This lesson shows you the German tens from 20 to 100, the rule for all the numbers in between, and the one small trap with the number one.

The Tens (Zehnerzahlen)

In just ten minutes you can learn how to greet people, ask how they are and introduce yourself in German. This lesson covers greetings, goodbyes, the five answers to Wie geht es dir?, and the questions about name, origin and place of living. It ends with a complete example conversation. Everything...

Imagine you are in a bar in Germany and you want to order two beers: how do you do that? You need the German numbers, called Zahlen. This lesson teaches you the numbers from 0 to 20, so you can order up to twenty beers, and then you practise them with four small calculation exercises.

German Numbe...

The German alphabet has 26 letters you already know, plus four special ones, and the good news is that German spells words very much the way it says them. In this lesson Luzi goes through the whole alphabet letter by letter, gives you an example word for every letter, and finishes with the special...