Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In the final part of the video, Eylin gives you the chance to apply what you’ve learned – and form the perfect tense on your own! Keep in mind that the German perfect tense is also used to speak about actions that are finished, and therefore is quite often best translated with the simple past tense in English.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
Eylin now explains how to form the participle 2 (the past participle) of regular and irregular verbs, and how to tell the differences between these two groups.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In this fifth part of her series on the perfect tense, Eylin talks about all of the exceptions to the rules. If you have ever wondered what a "transitive verb" is, watch this video!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In this fourth and final part on the perfect tense, you have the chance to practice and apply your new knowledge together with Eylin. Have fun!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
For many new students, German's case system can be intimidating. Don’t get discouraged! In this video, Eylin helps demystify the four German cases: nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In the second part of our lesson on the four grammatical cases, you will learn about their function within a sentence and you will also see what would happen if they did not exist!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In this part, Eylin clearly summarizes the declension of masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns in the singular and plural in all four cases. She explains everything step by step and gives you some practical examples.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In the fourth part of our lesson on the German cases, Eylin gives us some more examples and reassures us that we're not expected to get everything perfect right away!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
Germans place a lot of emphasis on being polite! Here, Eylin gives you some tips for making common questions and requests sound much softer and more pleasant for native German speakers.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In this video, Eylin presents some of the 100 most frequently used words in German, and gives sample sentences, too. Commit them to memory by writing them down and making up sentences of your own!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
The verb "machen" (to make / to do) is used very often in German. In this video, Eylin introduces some frequently used phrases involving “machen,” and provides its conjugations in the perfect tense.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
What's the difference between "tun" and "machen?” While they both are translated as “to do,” there are some clear distinctions. Eylin breaks it down in this video. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
How do people in German cities get from one place to the next? Eylin looks at the possibilities in Hamburg, where she has found owning a car to be quite impractical.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
In this video, Eylin talks about her last hiking vacation using the German preterite (simple past), which is the tense more typically used in written German.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
Eylin introduces us to some more important verbs in the preterite form as she tells us about her hiking adventure.
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