German school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

This is an intensive elementary German class in which we focus on acquiring the four basic skills of a language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The required textbook is supplemented by a workbook and allows students to practice what they have learned in class. Other supplementary material such as videos, current material from newspapers, poems, music, and excerpts from children’s books supports the learning process. (4 credits)

All of our courses are carefully structured and designed to cover a wide range of topic areas, grammatical structures and skills. A Cactus Foreign Language Course includes the following elements:
Developing and improving your spoken language
Building your communicative confidence so you can talk with native speakers.
Developing your listening and comprehension skills to improve understanding.
Learning and reviewing the grammatical structures of the language
Focusing on langua...

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Upon completion of this course, students should be able to conduct basic conversations and write simple paragraphs about everyday topics. This course aims to provide beginning students with a practical command of the language. Grammatical topics include pronunciation, counting, simple interrogatives, negation, personal pronouns, adjectives, the present tense and expressions of time and season.

After completing this level, students should be able to converse about everyday topics using the present and simple past tenses. Building upon the basic foundation provided in Level 1, topics introduced include the accusative, flavoring particles, noun compounds, adverbs, verbs with separable prefixes, demonstrative pronouns, modal auxiliaries, accusative prepositions, dativ and dativ prepositions, and the simple past tense.

Building upon the skills studied in Level 2, students will acquire additional vocabulary with which to discuss a range of topics including, for example, their homes, hobbies and professions. Topics introduced include the present perfect tense, participles, local and special use prepositions, indirect questions, genitive case, expressions of time, date and number, da- and wo- compounds, as well as adjectives and their declination.