Vocabulary Topics:

• Basic building blocks. Such as the alphabet, numbers and colours.
• Talk about yourself, your family, work and celebrations.
• Describe hobbies and activities.
• Expression of times of the day, days of the week, seasons and special holidays.
• Recognise food items on a menu and learn how to order.
• Planning transports and travel: out and about the city,asking for help in a hotel, booking a hotel room.
• Recognise parts of the body and compare clothing.
• Discuss household activities.
• Explore weather topics.

Grammar Topics:

• Form a question using German ‘W’ words.
• Verb position and conjugations in present tense.
• Use of personal and possessive pronouns.
• Introduction to separable verbs and how to use them.
• Begin using the accusative case.
• Modal verbs and sentence brackets
• The past tense called “Perfekt“
• Using prepositions to describe location and time.
• Introduction to the dative case in general.
• How to use modal verbs like ‘want’, ‘should’ and ‘must’.
• Forming sentences in past tense with ‘to be’ and ‘to have’.
• How to build imperative forms

Vocabulary Topics:

• Your apartment and moving to a new apartment.
• Groceries and shopping in general
• Sports and fitness
• Illness/Doctor’s visit.
• Work life, travelling and mobility.
• Ordering food.
• Talking about learning experiences, school and training.
• Press and media.
• Cultural events (cinema, theatre, concerts).

Grammar Topics:

• Possessive articles.
• Dual prepositions.
• Adjective declensions (definite and indefinite articles, the zero article).
• Subordinate clause sentences with “that”, “if”, and “because”.
• Reflexive verbs.
• conjunctions ‘if’ and ‘when’.
• How to use the passive voice in the present tense (E.g. The letter is sent by the teachers).
• Verbs in the accusative and dative cases.
• Asking indirect questions.
• Verbs with prepositions and Prepositions of place.
• Past tense of the modal verbs.
• Relative pronouns and sentences in nominative and accusative cases.

Vocabulary Topics:

• Character traits
• Occupation / work place characteristics
• Consultations/ customer service
• Invitations and parties / social live
• Vocational guidance
• Health and nutrition, body image.
• Writing emails and letters.
• Further education + job applications.
• The arts (classical and modern)
• History, politics and society.
• The environment and climate change.
• Future life.

Grammar Topics:

• Adjective declensions with ‘n’.
• Using the ‘Präteritum’.(simple past)
• Forming relative clauses in the dative case with prepositions.
• The future tense.
• The infinitive with ‘zu‘.
• Adjective declensions of the comparative and superlative.
• The past subjunctive (E.g. If I hadn’t been late for work, I would never have been fired).
• Using the genitive case.
• Conjunctions and adverbs (nämlich, daher, etc.)
• Participles as adjectives (E.g. The frightened girl screamed when she saw the spider.).
• Conjunction connectors (einerseits / andererseits, entweder… oder, etc.)
• Passive voice in the past tense (E.g. The car was repaired last week).
• Conjunctions (that, which, whichever, whom, though, rather than, just as, etc.)

Vocabulary Topics:

• Character traits
• Occupation / work place characteristics
• Consultations/ customer service
• Invitations and parties / social live
• Vocational guidance
• Health and nutrition, body image.
• Writing emails and letters.
• Further education + job applications.
• The arts (classical and modern)
• History, politics and society.
• The environment and climate change.
• Future life.

Grammar Topics:

• Adjective declensions with ‘n’.
• Using the ‘Präteritum’.(simple past)
• Forming relative clauses in the dative case with prepositions.
• The future tense.
• The infinitive with ‘zu‘.
• Adjective declensions of the comparative and superlative.
• The past subjunctive (E.g. If I hadn’t been late for work, I would never have been fired).
• Using the genitive case.
• Conjunctions and adverbs (nämlich, daher, etc.)
• Participles as adjectives (E.g. The frightened girl screamed when she saw the spider.).
• Conjunction connectors (einerseits / andererseits, entweder… oder, etc.)
• Passive voice in the past tense (E.g. The car was repaired last week).
• Conjunctions (that, which, whichever, whom, though, rather than, just as, etc.)

Vocabulary Topics:

• in-depth content: Psychology, Literature, digital media
• International economy and finance
• Research and technology.
• Mobility.
• Intercultural Communication.
• Society issues and politics

Grammar Topics:

• It (it is questionable, whether…).
• Nominal style sentences.
• Further noun and verb collocations.
• Prepositions in higher levels of language as well as prepositions in the genitive case.
• Advanced indirect speech.
• Advanced nominal, verbal and writing skills and their links to texts.
• Advanced adjective/participle structures with variations in word order.

With a little guidance from your teacher, you can find yourself talking about a variety of subjects from current affairs or stories from newspapers, to topics of culture and communication.

The point of these classes is to get you chatting and starting to feel more confident. You could say that a conversation class is something of a rehearsal for real life… Using a language is of course one of the keys to become more fluent. If you are learning a foreign language, opportunities to speak with natives are not always so easy to come by. It can be the case that if your exposure to the language is limited, you can get quite demotivated. With German conversation classes, you are guaranteed an opportunity to speak, listen and to practice on a regular basis.

At speakeasy, our German Conversation classes naturally focus on pronunciation and accent reduction, so you'll learn to speak more like a real German.

Vocabulary Topics:

• Introduce yourself and other people
• Talk about where you live and where you are from
• Learn professions and job titles
• Learn to chat about your family
• Describe objects in terms of colour, price and opinion
• Learn the German alphabet and count to 100
• Get familiar with office basics
• Shopping and description of clothing
• Modes of transport
• Daily activities
• The clock / time
• Days of the week, seasons, and months
• Describing places in the city
• Talking about problems in a hotel
• Making plans and wishes for the future
• Identifying parts of the body
• Talk about household chores & activities
• Discuss the weather
• Explore the celebrations and holidays that occur during the year

Grammar Topics:

• Form a question using German ‘W’ words.
• Verb position and conjugations in present tense
• Use of personal and possessive pronouns
• Introduction to separable verbs and how to use them
• Begin using the accusative case.
• Modal verbs and sentence brackets
• The past tense called “Perfekt“
• Using prepositions to describe location and time
• Introduction to the dative case in general
• How to use modal verbs like ‘want’, ‘should’ and ‘must’
• Forming sentences in past tense with ‘to be’ and ‘to have’

Vocabulary Topics:

• Making purchases
• Talking more in depth about your living situation and moving house
• Discussing childhood and family activities
• Aspects of tourism
• Talk about sport activities
• Going to the doctor
• Work place topics
• Ordering food in a restaurant or café
• Describing your learning process
• Exploring themes of travel
• Climate and weather
• Public transport
• Talking about events and things you would like to do
• Press and media
• School experiences and further studies
• Experiences abroad

Grammar Topics:

• Dual prepositions
• How to decline adjectives in different ways (definite and indefinite article)
• Possessive determiners
• Prepositions of time
• Continuation of adjective declensions – using the zero article
• The subordinate clause
• Reflexive verbs
• Using conjunctions like“dass, wenn and weil“
• The passive voice in the present tense (E.g. The car is being repaired by the mechanic)
• Understanding when verbs take the dative and accusative cases
• Using prepositions to describe location
• How to use verbs with prepositions
• Indirect speech
• Prepositions describing where thing are
• Using modal verbs in the past tense
• More on conjunctions
• Relative clauses (E.g. I am reading the newspaper that I think is so informative.)

Vocabulary Topics:

Topic deepening of A2, plus topics such as character traits, health, counselling/customer service, finding a career/future plans, art, concerts and events, further education and job application, environment and climate

Grammar Topics:

• N-declensions
• The simple past
• Relative clauses (E.g. I ate the cookies that I bought last week)
• Using the future tense
• More on conjunctions
• Using the infinitive with zu
• Conjunction using da, während and bevor
• Subjunctive in the past
• Declining adjectives with comparatives and superlatives
• When to use the genitive case
• Conjunctives giving reasons and consequences
• Using adjectives as participles
• How to use conjunctives as connectors
• More use of conjunctives (je… desto/umso)
• Using modal particles like denn or doch
• The passive voice in the past tense

Vocabulary Topics:

• Love and friendship
• Discuss ideas in professional life and studying
• Consider press and media
• Body awareness
• Life in and around the city
• Media and psychology
• Conversation with Doctors and Medicinical topics
• Local diversity and expressions

Grammar Topics:

• Reference words
• Nominal style sentences
• Different forms of the passive voice
• (static and dynamic)
• Causal relationships
• Advanced sentence structure
• Using temporal determiners (vor, während, nach etc.)
• Using the verb “lassen”
• Nominal and verbal style
• Subjunctive mood
• Noun and verb co-occurrence
• Nouns with prepositions
• More on using conjunctions (trotz, dagegen, während, etc.)
• Coherence in texts
• Alternatives to the passive voice

Vocabulary Topics:

• Finance and the economy
• Literature and Intercultural communication
• Communication and Digital Media
• Research, Mobility and technics

Grammar Topics:

• How to use nominal style sentences
• Further noun and verb co-occurrences
• Using indirect speech on an advanced level
• Prepositions in complex language including the genitive case
• Using more advanced nominal, verbal and writing skills and linking to texts
• Further adjective/participle structures with prepositions
• Advanced word order