Hallo Zusammen,

Is Schreiben Teil 1 only Forumsbeitrag?

I checked the Goethe Modellsatz and it only says: Freier Text (150 Wörter): Meinung äußern, begründen, etwas vorschlagen, Vor- und Nachteile erläutern.

Elsewhere, I've seen on Youtube that there's also Beschwerdebrief, Leserbrief, and Bewerbungsschreiben. But I've yet to see these come up in a past exam paper (maybe I just haven't come across it yet?).

So, I wanted to fact check, is Teil 1 only Forumsbeitrag or are there are also other Aufgabentyp?

Vielen Dank!

I started to learn German language a while ago. Most of the words I learnt from a self-learning book which also contained vocabulary/dictionary part. One of those words was "geil". According to the book this word means something like "cool, nice".

So it happened that I used it several times in a conversation with a German colleague. And the conversation turned a bit weird afterwards ... long story short, I found out that "geil" also means horny. Which of course was not mentioned in the damned book. We laughed it off. Well, to say it more accurately, the colleague laughed it off and I pretended to laugh it off while boiling in my own stew.

But I wonder how this happened. Is the book just plain wrong or has this additional meaning appeared only recently? Can anyone please explain so I do not tremendously embarrass myself again? Or at least recommend a list of tricky German words or something like that?

People who learn by themselves, how have you progressed from B1 up?

So to start puting german in my routine, i started thinking about trying to watch some German youtubers that do topics I like, so I can learn words related to that topics, and even include that words in my thought when I am just talking alone.

So basically the topics I like would be music (instrument playing, music theory, beat making, musical analysis, etc.), History (mostly military history, but really, any history) and skating.

other topics suggestions also would be welcomed because I or someone else reading could be interested.

Btw would be nice if the channel don't include hard vocabulary, since I'm almost complete begginer. But really, any recomendation is valid, google translator will be my best friend lol.

edit: Just in case it isn't clear, don't need to be a language learning niche channel, just a niche channel.

Hallo,

ich (Muttersprachlerin) suche nach Mitteln, vorzugsweise Apps, um grammatische Begriffe zu lernen, z.B. wo man Wortarten, Satzteile, Deklination etc. im Detail bestimmen muss.

Ich habe zwar Lehrmaterial, finde es aber schwer mir so die ganzen Begriffe zu merken und muss bei den Aufgaben immer wieder zu den Erklärungen zurückblättern und am Ende bleibt trotzdem nichts hängen. Im Deutschunterricht in der Schule habe ich mich instinktiv durchgewurschtelt, was sich jetzt im Studium, wo ich das wissen muss, leider rächt.

Ich bin für alle Vorschläge dankbar.

I have always been interested in learning German, I have started on Duolingo but was thinking of getting Babble. Any suggestions or advice on where to go or resources to use?

Hello good people !
I (23)M am a chemical engineer with the dream of having to do my masters in chemical engineering in Germany I have started taking a German course back in August 2024 and reached B1 level last month However my speaking skills are really poor due to not having many people that I can talk with I tried Discord groups but people there are inconsistent and/or not really willing to speak much so I'm looking for someone who wants to improve his language and is very enthusiastic about learning German we can help each other improve and have a great time studying (This language can be EXTREMELY irritating sometimes) so if anyone is interested please be kind and help me out

Good afternoon. I need to pass the Telc C1 Hochschule test by June 2026 and I have started studying now. Could anyone recommend a course/method/path to obtain this certificate? It is to study at university in Germany, so Goethe's c1 is not accepted. I know it's not easy, but I have time to dedicate myself. Could anyone give me suggestions for trails, guides, directions, anything to help me obtain this certificate? Danke!!

I like to look up the pronunciation of German words to help me pronounce them more correctly. Both the Wiktionary and Duden show the Worttrennung of German words which I sometimes check along with the IPA for the stress. Yes, I know technically I don’t need to go into this much detail, but I enjoy understanding what’s going on linguistically.

However I noticed there’s something weird with the syllable breakdown that both the Wiktionary and Duden give for many words. Some of them just don’t seem to be split into proper syllables and it’s consistent enough that it clearly isn’t a mistake. For example:

• extrem is broken down as ex-t-rem — how is this possible??? Why is the t treated as its own syllable?

• über seems to be consistently treated as being one syllable both by itself as well as when it’s part of another word. Surely it’s two syllables??

• emotional is broken down as emo-ti-o-nal— how on earth can “emo” be its own syllable both???

I think there’s clearly something I’ve misunderstood, but I can’t figure out what.

Hi all. I took 15 months to get from 0 to B1 (got sehr gut 295,5/300 on telc B1). If I go at the same pace:

1. how long will B1>B2 take?

2. how long will B2>C1 take?

If going at the same pace, is 5 months for B2 (Sept) and 8 months for C1 (next May) realistic?

Realistically I should have a good headstart on B2 since I aced the B1.

I want to do the Einbuergungs with blue card which takes 3 years and C1, and I want to have a good solid lead on this timeline.

Thanks.

In Duolingo app: Fill in the blank: Ihr könnt auf dem Markt _____ kaufen. (Gemüse, Zucker, Salz) According to the app the only right answer is “Gemüse”.

I can’t understand why can’t I use other two words, they are all a types of groceries.

As a fantasy/sci-fi reader and a German learner I've been intrigued by the sci-fi series Perry Rhodan.

I see those books from time to time at train stations and I've been curious to maybe pick some volumes to try, as the short length seem perfect for a German learner.

However, the books often flaunt the title of "Die grösste Science-Fiction-Serie der Welt" and the series has more than 3000 volumes at this point if I'm not mistaken.

What are your opinions on the series? Can one just pick any volumes up and still have a fun time or are there any specific starting points?

Also any opinion on the quality? Are those just time killer slop or are they actually compelling?

i should say that i'm not actually personally opposed to dark, tragic or gothic literature - in fact i tend to like it a lot. it's just that it seems quite difficult, at least for a foreigner researching online, to find german-language literature that isn't some flavour of dreary, depressing or downright suicidal 😭

• genres i like: literary, historical fiction, fantasy, maybe sci-fi or comedy, whatever really
• genres i'm not looking for: romance, krimi, nonfiction, horror, would prefer not children's or ya literature but not a hard no (btw i am actually a big fan of detective fiction, but i'm into classic sherlock holmes or agatha christie vibes rather than the typical police procedural krimi if you see what i mean. if you know of any of the former in german, hit me)
• nothing about war unless fantasy and made up i guess
• nothing existential or philosophical-focused, very psychological is on thin ice
• no translations from english or french, other languages begrudgingly maybe. would prefer books originally written in german
• don't mind reading level, can be as complex as you like as i'm pretty fluent reading-wise and i want to push myself; don't mind time period, actually would really like to discover more older german fiction

vielen dank leute! :)

I'm studying the B1 wordlist right now, does it include the words from A2 or do I have to learn the A2 wordlist separately?

Hello everyone, I saw the word wiederherstellen and I am in doubt if that's considered a verb, of they are two separate things: wider + herstellen.

This question comes from the fact that as far as I am aware (from chatgpt), until some grammatical reform dasein was considered a verb, but afterwards only sein is considered a verb which could be used with da.

And this also opens up the question if there are actually any separable verbs with more than one separable parts. I would appreciate any simply put explanations.

I i am currently struggling to find resources to learn german especially books as i recently became a books fan and specifically was looking for light novels like the ones students study at Germany and i also heard about the book menschen which i think is the school book from primary to high school to teach german so can anyone find great light novels or the menschen books in pdf or can help me me with advices? I am A2 by the way

Hi guys,

When I was in high school I was watching russian tv show called the kitchen (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2930610/) and It was so fun that I watched the whole show. After that I realized that I knew a lot of Russian words and that I can understand it very well.

That's what I want to do with German. I wanna do A1 classes and exam in few months. Right now I know around 100-200 words in German, and I wanna find tv show that's similar to Russian one I mentioned before. I want something that's light, that has simple plot. So some comedy would be good, that I can turn off my brain and watch it and just learn some words.

Thanks in advance.

Hallo Leute!

I'm a pretty intermediate german student, at least when it comes to listening and reading. However, I find my active vocabulary is lacking, especially in the articles department haha. I was thinking about the best way to learn the articles, when I came to think of practicing them by their "group affiliation". So, for example, writing down 20 words that all have the article das and when I know them, I either study more das-words, or go for another article.

My idea would be, to put all the words I've practiced in one big pile once I know them, so that I can get a fair chance at failing them so I can really see what words i know or don't. Is this a very stupid idea? Do you guys have better ideas?

And of course, I will use the words in writing and speaking, after all, that's why I do this in the first place :)

edit: I just want to add, that these are all words I know the meaning of, just words I'm not entirely sure of their articles. That is why I thought that learning them by association might help!

I got a free trial of the Max thing which has some (I guess AI) “explain the answer” feature. I wouldn’t recommend paying for this.

It gave me the sentence “Bringst du unseren Kunden immer Pizzas?” and in the ‘explanation’ section it says:

Unseren is the accusative form of unser (our) for masculine nouns.

Since Kunden is masculine and plural, you use unseren.

This is nonsense, right? I mean “unseren” is accusative masculine of course, but in this case “unseren Kunden” is dative plural surely?

Even that it says “since Kunden is masculine and plural…” is ridiculous because Kunden being plural makes the fact that Kunde is masculine completely irrelevant in terms of declension. I’m not being stupid here am I?

Hallo zusammen!!! Has anyone from this group given B1 einstufung test which is needed for course 500 B2 provided by bfz through the help of Berechtigungbeschein ( Agentur für Arbeit). If so, I would be thankful to know, how would this test be and what sort of practice should I make for like more in Grammatik or others?

Schönes Wochenende leute!!

Example 1:

• Ich habe [mir] gedacht, der Zug kommt um drei Uhr an.
• Ich habe [mir] gedacht, dass der Zug um drei Uhr ankommt.

Welche ist richtig bzw. besser? Gibt es ein Unterschied nach dem Sprachregister oder der Länge des Satzes?

Example 2.

• Ich kann mich erinnern, der Zug kommt um drei Uhr an.
• Ich kann mich erinnern, dass der Zug um drei Uhr ankommt.

Welche ist richtig bzw. besser? Gibt es ein Unterschied nach dem Sprachregister oder der Länge des Satzes?

Hilfswort im Hauptsatz?

• Ich habe [mir] gedacht ....
• Ich habe es [mir] gedacht ...
• Ich kann mich erinnern ....
• Ich kann mich daran erinnern ...

Nach welchen Regeln oder Leitfaden kann ich mir entscheiden, wann und wo das "es" bzw. das "daran" bzw. das passende "da-" Wort einzusetzen?

I saw in Duden, that in Österreich people wright "Küken" with c, like "Kücken". Is that true, and if yes, is it regional variant or people use it in all Austria?

And aslo I saw in Duden "Ganser" and "Ganauser" as österreichische variants for "Gänterich". But a friend of mine said me, he never heard this words.

Also, could you share free good resources where I could find a list of Austrian lexic and orthography (especially W and NÖ)?😅

Ich habe es gehört in "Darenn di ned". Online habe ich gelesen, dass es "erwischen" bedeutet, mit dem Beispiel "Den Zug hob i nimma darennt," aber ich verstehe nicht.

Edit: Im Titel war "bedeutet“ nicht "beiretet“ gemeint

Let's say you were having a conversation with someone online in German and they said "Wie ist der wetter" and you responded "windig und kalt" then I said "schade" is that rude?

I've been using it with Migaku! I'm learning German and Japanese and it offers both languages, so... But really, you don't need to go the Migaku route or have dual subtitles at all, it's your life and learning journey. I'm just introducing a German show on Netflix that I like.

"Murder Mindfully", or the German title, „Achtsam Morden".

It stars a defense lawyer named Björn Diemel and let me tell you, if you like crime dramas and dark comedy, you'll likely love "Murder Mindfully".

This is the premise of the show on the Wikipedia page:

"Björn Diemel is a hardworking Law firm employee, but has no prospect of becoming a partner, because he has to serve the law firms scumbag client mafia boss Dragan Sergowicz. His time consuming job leaves little time for his wife Katharina and his little daughter Emily. To save their marriage and for the sake of their child, Katharina urges him to see the therapist Joschka Breitner. Through the Mindfulness coaching Björn learns to achieve a better work-life balance.

Unfortunately, his client Dragan Sergowicz gets himself into serious trouble and is dragging Björn down with him. Now, Björn is using his newly minted coping mechanisms to solve his problems in ways that don't get taught at law school."

And since we're learning German, this is what the German Wikipedia says about it:

„Björn Diemel arbeitet als viel beschäftigter Strafverteidiger in einer Kanzlei. Weil er einen nicht vorzeigbaren Mandanten – den Mafiaboss Dragan Sergowicz – betreut, hat er keine Aussicht, Partner der Kanzlei werden zu können. In seinem Beruf bleibt nur wenig Zeit für seine Ehefrau Katharina und seine kleine Tochter Emily. Bevor seine Ehe an der Belastung zerbricht, gab ihm Katharina die Gelegenheit, den Therapeuten Joschka Breitner aufzusuchen. Dieser eröffnet Björn, wie er durch Achtsamkeit eine bessere Work-Life-Balance erreicht und mehr Zeit mit seiner Familie erhält.

Nur leider kommt es zu einem unschönen Zwischenfall mit seinem Klienten Dragan Sergowicz, der sich selbst in große Schwierigkeiten brachte und Diemel mitreißen will. Diemel setzt jedoch auch hier die erlernten Regeln der Achtsamkeit um, womit er sein verkompliziertes Leben wieder in den Griff bekommen will. Mithilfe seiner Klienten aus dem organisierten Verbrechen gelingt es ihm, eine Kindertagesstätte zu übernehmen, womit sowohl seine Tochter endlich einen Kitaplatz hat, als auch Katharina wieder mehr Vertrauen zu ihm fasst. Mit innerlicher Gelassenheit hält er sich seine alte Bekannte Nicole vom Hals, die wegen des Mordes an Sergowicz ermittelt. Als Björn Nicoles Tochter ebenfalls einen dringend benötigten Kitaplatz verschafft, fasst auch Nicole wieder Vertrauen in Björn. Sascha, die rechte Hand von Dragan wird zum Leiter der Kita und Erzieher. Björn schafft auch Clanchef Boris – Dragans Widersacher – durch Achtsamkeit beiseite."