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Ready to move beyond everyday basics? Build on your A2 foundation and develop the German skills to discuss experiences, explain opinions, talk about future plans and communicate in a wider range of everyday situations.
Your Next Stage in German
Explore the key areas of B1
A structured learning path built around practical communication and a broad range of real-life topics.
Take your German beyond the basics with our online German B1 course. Build stronger grammar, expand your vocabulary, and develop the skills to discuss everyday experiences, work, relationships, travel and wider social topics with greater confidence.
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Your Learning Journey
Move beyond short, familiar exchanges and develop the language skills to explain your ideas, describe experiences, discuss everyday issues and understand a wider range of spoken and written German.
Discuss preferences, explain your point of view, compare alternatives and support your opinions with reasons.
Talk about past events, personal experiences, relationships and changes in everyday life.
Describe goals and intentions, discuss expectations and understand advice about future possibilities.
Work with conversations, announcements, interviews and discussions about travel, work, society and other familiar topics.
Understand informative texts and develop your ability to write emails, reports, descriptions and organized written responses.
Develop control of subordinate clauses, Konjunktiv II, passive constructions, adjective endings, relative clauses and important connectors.
Inside the B1 Course
Explore 12 thematic units covering practical communication, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, learning strategies and cultural topics. Each unit develops German through a different area of everyday and social life.
Develop the language needed to plan journeys, understand travel information and describe holiday experiences.
Learn to discuss purchases, describe problems, compare advertisements and explain the consequences of decisions.
Talk about changes in life, report past events and describe experiences with greater detail.
Develop language for professional situations, job applications, workplace conversations and telephone enquiries.
Discuss environmental ideas, compare alternatives and explain goals and intentions.
Learn to talk about the future, explain your intentions and understand advice and expectations.
Describe relationships, follow the sequence of events and discuss disagreements and personal connections.
Discuss everyday wellbeing, offer and respond to help, and understand information about health and lifestyle.
Talk about creative work, describe images, report information and express agreement or disagreement.
Discuss social participation, describe events, write about projects and present information about institutions.
Explore city life, understand magazine articles, write reports and describe places and destinations.
Build the language needed to discuss financial matters, understand information and explain arguments and difficult situations.
From everyday conversations to more complex topics.
Explore the units to see how grammar, vocabulary and
communication come together throughout your B1 learning journey.
Speak with Greater Confidence
At B1, speaking means more than answering simple questions. Practise describing experiences, explaining opinions, discussing possibilities, responding to others and expressing your ideas in connected German.
Practise discussing everyday issues, comparing ideas and supporting your opinions with reasons.
Develop your ability to recount experiences, explain changes and put events in a clear sequence.
Practise explaining your plans, talking about possibilities and discussing what you would like to do.
Learn to respond to different viewpoints, ask follow-up questions and keep a conversation moving.
Practise making suggestions, explaining alternatives and discussing what might work in a particular situation.
Practise describing a problem, explaining its cause and discussing its effects or possible solutions.
Your B1 Speaking Challenge
What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city? Try to give at least two advantages, one disadvantage and your own opinion.
Build stronger speaking skills alongside grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading and writing.
Explore the B1 CurriculumBuild your reading, listening and writing skills with short B1-level practice activities based on everyday life, work, travel and the environment.
Practise identifying key information in everyday announcements and conversations.
Imagine you hear a travel announcement. Which details should you identify?
Achtung, die Abfahrt des Zuges nach Berlin verspätet sich um zwanzig Minuten. Bitte warten Sie am Gleis drei.
Question: How long is the delay, and where should passengers wait?
Answer: Twenty minutes; platform three.
Practise understanding short texts about work, technology and daily life.
Read the message and answer the question.
Question: What should the applicant do?
Answer: Confirm the interview appointment by email.
Organise your ideas and connect sentences using appropriate B1 structures.
Write a short email about a problem with a product you purchased.
Ich schreibe Ihnen, weil …
Leider funktioniert … nicht.
Deshalb möchte ich …
Ich freue mich auf Ihre Antwort.
These are original practice examples, not official Goethe-Zertifikat exam questions. The listening sample is provided as text; audio is not included.
Explore the B1 Curriculum →Explore important B1 grammar structures through clear examples. Expand each topic for a short explanation and see how it works in context.
Connect ideas using weil, obwohl and dass.
In a subordinate clause, the conjugated verb normally goes to the end.
Pattern: Main clause + weil + subject + other information + verb.
Express wishes, polite requests and imagined situations.
Use forms such as hätte, wäre and würde to talk about hypothetical situations.
Focus on an action rather than on who performs it.
Present passive commonly uses werden + Partizip II.
The second example uses the simple past passive.
Choose adjective endings according to the article, case and gender.
Adjectives before nouns change their endings depending on the grammatical context.
Talk about future plans, expectations and predictions.
Form Futur I with werden + infinitive. The infinitive usually appears at the end.
Explain the purpose of an action.
Use um … zu when the understood subject is the same. Use damit when the clauses have different subjects.
Add information about a person, place or thing.
The relative pronoun depends on the noun's gender and number, and its grammatical role in the relative clause. The conjugated verb goes to the end.
Compare ideas and express alternatives or consequences.
These structures help you express relationships between ideas more precisely.
Explore useful German words and expressions for everyday conversations, work, travel and wider social topics. Open a theme to learn more.
Talk about holidays, destinations and travel experiences.
Discuss job applications, career goals and workplace situations.
Describe devices, services, purchases and complaints.
Talk about environmental issues and responsible choices.
Express feelings, discuss relationships and resolve conflicts.
Describe health concerns, feelings and everyday wellbeing.
Discuss social projects, civic engagement and community life.
Talk about banking, expenses, transport and life in cities.