- WhenWednesdays at 18:00Berlin time, CEST
- How long60 minutes
- PriceFree
- LevelAll levels welcome
- ExceptBerlin public holidays
- Runs until30 December 2026
Bring your questions
This is not a lecture. You bring the thing you are stuck on, a rule that never made sense or a mistake you keep making, and we work through it in plain language until it makes sense.
If nobody has a question, we finish early.
Watch on YouTube
Nothing to install, no signup, no limit on places. Open the stream and watch.
Watch on YouTube
Unlimited places, and nobody sees you.
Join on Zoom
Speak with me directly, practise out loud and get corrected. You are seen and heard on the stream, and you pick the name people see.
Register for Zoom
100 places, register for each date.
Get the link every week
A reminder on Monday, on Wednesday morning and an hour before we start. Nothing else.
Past classes
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26 August 2026
What came up
- Which verbs take zu
- zu needs one subject, damit takes two
- retten or sparen, and the Rettungswagen
- Why the dictation feels exhausting
- Two dictations now, one an hour later
- How to replay a sentence while you write
- The vocabulary tool and the Anki decks
- Eselsbrücken: make a word sound like one you know
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19 August 2026
What came up
- Frustration and stopping
- Still in A1 and wanting to speak
- How many hours German really takes
- Türe schließen and Warnung vor dem Hunde
- Reading above your level without killing the joy
- Free speaking practice in the course
- Learning German with songs
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12 August 2026
What came up
- Verbs with two objects
- The recipient trap
- Word order: where the verb goes
- Sentences with three verbs
- Präteritum vs Perfekt
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5 August 2026
What came up
- How to split your time between the course, Anki and other tools
- Your goal decides your daily hours
- Tandem partners and speaking practice
- Hearing o and ö, u and ü
- The four meanings of ihr
- Articles, cases and verbs with two objects
- Learning German without moving to Germany
- Preparing for the exam
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29 July 2026
What came up
- Welcome and how this class works
- Why take notes at all
- wurde or würde, one umlaut and two meanings
- gern or gerne, which one is right
- hätte gern or hätte lieber
- Nothing in German is difficult
- Ten minutes a week will not do it
- Finishing a course means nothing
- kein or nicht, the one question that decides it
- Why Ich nicht habe is impossible
- What fits between an article and its noun
- Why nicht never goes after the past participle
- Every doubt is a gift
- I do not make it easy. German IS easy
