German B2, or upper-intermediate, is a level where learners can confidently communicate in everyday and professional situations, understand complex texts, and participate in abstract discussions. At this stage, individuals can express opinions, explain viewpoints, write detailed texts like reports and formal letters, and interact fluently with native speakers. Key skills include handling a wide range of topics and using more advanced grammar structures. 

Requirements

A completed B1 level is recommended to follow this course properly.

All cases and declensions, reflexive verbs, verbs with prepositions, word order including the position of "nicht", subclauses including relative clauses, all tenses, Infinitiv + zu, the Konjunktiv, passive voice.

A list of the grammar topics that should have been studied up to this point can also be found in the overview (landing page) of my course A2/B1 Grammar, Elementary to Intermediate.

Description

This course will support you in reaching or expanding the B2 level in German. It will provide you with vocabulary, structure explanations, examples and exercises. The goal is to understand, speak and write German correctly on a higher intermediate level and give your language more variety.

We will work with a lot of examples to help you understand how certain structures are used in various contexts. All the examples and also the quizzes contain B2 vocabulary, which is (potentially) new to you. Take notes whenever necessary. Later in the course there are also lectures for word building.

Each topic usually consists of:

- one or more videos with explanations of structure/grammar and expression (How to say this? How to say it besides and why?), - please note that these explanations are all in German, and if you cannot understand everything, you can use the English subtitles -,

- one or more videos with only example sentences related to the topic,

- a quiz,

- additional exercises (written).

Sometimes there are also additional small quizzes or further tips.

With the quizzes and exercises you can practice right away what you have learned. You can download the written assignments in pdf format. They are usually attached to the quiz lesson. Open the section you are working on in the overview on the right and then click on 'Resources' to download the file.

Some topics have assignments with an individual solution and you can share them with me and other students.

There are also pdf-files attached to each lecture with the slides of each of them. Through the transcript button of the video player, you can also access a written version of all lesson-explanations (make sure, the subtitles are set to English or German to access the files respectively).

This course will help you to further your fluency and accuracy in German which will certainly serve you well in reaching your goals.

Please note that the speed of the videos can be changed in case you find them too fast (or too slow). This setting can be found on the bottom left of the Udemy video player (standard setting: 1x).

Who this course is for:

Intermediate students of German who finished B1 and want to continue their German studies.

Students on a B2 level who want to expand and/or review what they have learnt.

Students who have finished the B2 level previously and want to review and/or close some knowledge gaps.