German Classes at our School in the heart of the San Fernando Valley in Encino. Serving students in Burbank, Calabasas, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Tarzana and Woodland Hills California.
Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door San Fernando Valley in Encino 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.
Please check the schedules:
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 San Fernando Valley in Encino.
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 San Fernando Valley German classes, San Diego German
classes, Los Angeles German classes or Orange
County German classes, please follow the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
Learning a Language can be Fun
We currently offer the opportunity to learn Spanish, French, Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Korean, German and many more languages in language class programs at our San Fernando Valley Language Door School in Encino or our West Los Angeles Language Door School. Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning the language of your choice 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.
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