This course is a continuation of “Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Grundkurs I” and covers chapters 7–12 in Netzwerk neu A2.2. Participants will train for various linguistic situations from daily, academic, and professional life. After a placement test, language learners with an entry level A1/A2 will be invited to register and join the course.
You will expand your vocabulary and grammar to the A2 level through readings, videos, and audio clips on topics like travel and transportation, learning, everyday working life, exercise and free time, living situations, the past, time (problems), entertainment, and art. Building on this, you will learn to express yourself appropriately in various concrete daily and conversational situations—for example how to express and react politely to questions, suggestions, advice, and desires—and to write short and simple messages and texts.
Important grammar topics are: indirect questions, subjunctive II, prepositions of place for indicating location, positional and directional verbs with prepositions of place and other prepositional verbs, simple past tense, temporal clauses, an expansion of linking words for main and subordinate clauses, and an introduction to relative clauses.
The language of instruction is the target language, German; as an academic lingua franca, English may occasionally be used as an auxiliary language.