You and your group can be trained by our native speaker qualified German teachers, and can meet at your place of work or home at a time convenient to you. Tutorials can take place any day of the week, including weekends, and can be scheduled for the morning, afternoon or evening. If your home or office is not suitable for you, you can attend the lesson at the teacher's offices. You will be provided with all relevant lesson materials.
These lessons in German are wider-ranging in their nature, and are driven towards students who have a variety of differing needs. All beginner students will expect to study enough survival German to get them through a short visit to the country, those staying on with the lesson can progress differently, depending on their individual requests and requirements. Whether you are buying property in a foreign country, married to a foreign national, planning a round-the-world trip, interested in German history and culture, or if you simply want to attain a particular level of German, this is the choice for you.
These German Lessons are intended for people who really need to learn German to help make that difference in their work. For beginners, it will be useful to learn greetings and basic business etiquette, at higher levels reading and then writing become more important. Typical students include those involved in import/export, international negotiations and acquisitions, jobseekers in multinational companies where an additional language is required, and those working with international colleagues, academia and government. Even on our most basic lesson for Beginners, students should expect to end the lesson with basic Telephone German and e-mail German skills for communications as well as Survival German required for short visits to a country.
2 or more people can benefit studying German together as these German lessons are also offered to groups (Two-to-One German Lesson or Small Group In-Company German Lesson). Every student must have the same degree of knowledge of the language, the same business or language needs and the ability to study at the same time and place as everybody else. The booking has to be made for all students at the same time. Listen & Learn do not advocate group sessions of more than 6-8 people, though Taster German Lessons can be experienced by up to 12 people.
German was primarily a written language with differing dialects according to region, until the 1800s
An extremely popular worldwide language, German has many ties with both English and Dutch
The main German-speaking nations are Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Luxembourg; but the language is also spoken in parts of Denmark, Russia, Hungary and Kazakhstan
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Peter ist einkaufen und trifft Maria.
- Guten Tag, ich heiße Peter. Wie heißt du?
- Hallo Peter. Ich heiße Maria.
- Das ist ein schöner Name. Woher kommst du?
- Ich bin Spanierin. Ich wohne in Madrid. Und du?
Aus welchem Land kommst du?
- Ich komme aus Deutschland. Ich wohne in München.
- Aha. Wie alt bist du?
- Ich bin 20 Jahre alt. Und du?
- Ich bin 22 Jahre alt. Ich hatte gestern Geburtstag.
- Ah! Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
- Danke. Wann ist dein Geburtstag?
- Mein Geburtstag ist am 2. April .
- Dann hast du ja nächste Woche Geburtstag!
- Stimmt. Kommst du zu meiner Party?
- Gerne.
- Dann bis nächste Woche. Tschüss, Maria.
- Bis dann.
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