Intermediate

~2,000 words · ~350 hours

You can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, and leisure. You can deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in a German-speaking area and produce simple connected text on familiar topics.

What you can do

✓Follow the main points of a conversation or news broadcast on familiar topics
✓Describe experiences, events, hopes, and ambitions
✓Give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
✓Write coherent essays and letters on familiar subjects
✓Navigate most travel situations independently
✓Understand the main ideas of texts on everyday or job-related topics

Grammar Topics

Präteritum (simple past) for common verbsGenitive case and genitive prepositionsRelative clauses with relative pronounsKonjunktiv II for polite requests and hypothetical situationsPassive voice (Vorgangspassiv)Reflexive verbs and reflexive pronouns