FLI-LAN7305 - Beginning German
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Course Description
This entry level course is geared toward those students who have not yet had any instruction in German. This is a lifesaver course for students planning a trip to a German speaking country with an emphasis on real life situations. There will be an emphasis on grammatical construction.Course Outline
1. Greetings, Introductions and Useful Expressions
- Subject pronouns
- Present tense form of verbs
- Definite articles: der, die, das
- Gender and third-person pronouns
- Using adjectives and adverbs
- Present tense of sein and haben
- Verbs and vowel changes
2. Number: Measurements, Currencies, Sizes, and Temperature
- Rules about basic word order
- Formation of noun plurals
- Accusative case
- Indefinite articles
- Accusative of personal pronouns
- Prepositions requiring the accusative case
- Negation with nicht
- Function and use of adverbs
- Giving orders in a polite way
- Function of modals (modal auxiliaries)
- Möchten means "Would like"
- Ordinal numbers
- Asking indirect questions
- Conjugation of wissen (to know)
- More about word order
- Compound nouns
- Dative case
- Dative endings for a few masculine nouns in singular
- Dative endings for plural nouns
- Dative prepositions
- Verbs that require the dative case
- Separable-prefix Verbs
- Word order of direct and indirect objects
- Two-say prepositions
- Regular (weak) verbs
- Irregular (strong) verbs
- Separable-Prefix verbs
- Irregular Verbs using haben as auxiliary
- Regular verbs using sein as auxiliary
- Irregular verbs using sein as auxiliary
- Mixed verbs
- Genitive case
Learner Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Communicate on a basic level in the target language
- Greet people and make introductions
- Understand currency, size, temperature and measurements
- Order in a restaurant
- Deal with accommodations
- Ask for directions
- Tell time
Notes
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