Getting started with German 2

Starting at a typical breakfast table in a German-speaking country, this course will build your vocabulary, teach you how to express your likes and dislikes and introduce you to grammatical concepts that will improve your ability to hold sophisticated conversations in German and understand more complex language in a variety of different scenarios.This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXG002 Beginners German 2: mit Vergnügen! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!

• Introduction
• Introduction
• Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
• Acknowledgements
• Week1Week 1: Frühstück!
• Introduction
• 1 At the breakfast table
• 2 Let’s have breakfast!
• 3 Practising the irregular verb essen
• 4 Was essen Sie zum Frühstück?
• 5 Was essen Sie zum Frühstück?
• 6 The irregular verb nehmen
• 6.1 Checking verb forms in your dictionary
• 7 Wurstsorten, Brotsorten
• 8 Food vocabulary
• 9 This week’s quiz
• 10 Summary of Week 1
• Acknowledgements
• Week2Week 2: Ich esse gern…
• Introduction
• 1 The adverb gern
• 2 gern, sehr gern, nicht gern
• 3 What do you like to eat?
• 4 My favourite cuisine
• 5 More likes and dislikes
• 6 Pronunciation
• 7 Writing about likes and dislikes
• 8 This week’s quiz
• 9 Summary of Week 2
• Next steps
• Acknowledgements