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German Classes at our Language Door School in San Diego. Serving students in San Diego, El Cajon, Santee, Chula Vista, La Mesa, La Jolla California.
Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door San Diego offers small interactive German classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning German fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
German is a popular language for travelers and business-people alike. German is spoken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, three big tourist destinations in Europe. Also, Germany has one of the largest economies in Europe, and much international business is done with this country.
Sehr gut!
German is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by about 80 million non-native speakers. Standard German is widely taught in schools, universities and Goethe Institutes worldwide.
Are you interested in becoming a speaker of German? Lanaguage Door San Diego's German classes are just what you need.
Please check the schedule.
For the beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
German
Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language. There is also an optional eight cassette
or CD package that accompanies the
book. For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (chapters 1-6)
Topics - Greetings and good-byes, introductions,
a telephone call, the weather, the family, and in a restaurant.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, subject pronouns, "to be", cognates, articles,
gender, plural, present tense of regular verbs, numbers, word order,
questions, days, months, negation, nominative case, accusative case,
questions words, possessive adjectives, verbs with stem changes, flavoring
particles, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 7-12)
Topics - Grocery shopping, in a hotel, the train
station, shopping for gifts, the post office, and at the airport.
Grammar and usage - Additional accusative, additional verbs, imperative, time, verbs
with separable and inseparable prefixes, modal auxiliaries, dative case,
colors, additional word order, coordinating conjunctions, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 13-19)
Topics - A drive on the highway, car repairs, at
the doctor's, at a trade fair, at the north sea, the cure, and the house.
Grammar and usage - Two-way prepositions, distance, the genitive case, subordinating
conjunctions, present participles, reflexive verbs, reflexive pronouns,
additional word order, time expressions in different cases, present perfect
tense, past participle, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-26)
Topics - Moving, sights, exchange, in a café, on
the Rhine, sports, and in the mountains.
Grammar and usage - Past participles of strong verbs, additional infinitives, Da-compounds,
Wo-compounds, predicate adjectives, unpreceded adjectives, adverbs, ordinal
numbers, positive adjectives and adverbs, comparatives, superlative,
demonstrative pronouns, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 27-33)
Topics - Studies and professions, daily routine,
a visit to the dentist's, at the hairdresser's, pharmacies and drugstores,
the lost and found, and computer and internet.
Grammar and usage - Simple past, relative pronouns, relative clauses, past perfect
tense, future tense, passive voice, substitute constructions for the passive
voice, etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 34-40)
Topics - At the bank, the theater, elections,
festivals, the media, museums, and literature.
Grammar and usage - Stative passive, subjunctive, special subjunctive, past and future
subjunctive, conditional, "to like", idiomatic usage, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us at our Language Door School in San Diego. Ask about our military discount!
Feedback from Our Students
"Excellent! She[the teacher] is very orderly, precise and demanding so that we learn a lot!
I like the pace, very dynamic. I'm glad I ran into the website from the consulate page for Germany,"
Adriana.
"Susanne [the teacher] is a very good teacher. She is great at communicating and teaching the class.
She explains things so they are easy and paractical to understand,"
Gretchen.
";The course is great. Love the small class environment. [The teacher] is
wonderful and enthusiastic. She makes the class more fun in a very friendly
way," Aleca.
""I've enjoyed the class so far. I appreciate my teacher's efforts to correct my mispronunciations. Plus, she has a good sense of humor,"
Harry.
Language Descriptionn
German,
member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the
Indo-European family of languages, has nearly 100 million speakers as their
first language. It is chiefly spoken in Germany (77 million), Austria (8
million), and Switzerland (4.5 million).
Further Information
For further information about Los Angeles German classes, San Diego German
classes, San Fernando Valley German classes or Orange
County German classes, please follow the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
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