By the end
What you'll build
- Write German business emails that read as competent rather than translated
- Use the formal register consistently, and know when it shifts
- Give and receive direct feedback without misreading it as hostility
- Contribute to and chair a German meeting, including disagreeing productively
- Present data and argue a position with the structure German audiences expect
- Handle a German job interview, including the questions that differ from elsewhere
Curriculum
What's inside
3 modules · 16 lessons
- 01
Written German at Work
4 lessons- The German Business Email
- Writing Lab: A Formal Emailwriting lab
- Email Conventionsfill blank
- Listening: Reading Email Registerlistening lab
- 02
Meetings and Direct Feedback
5 lessons- The German Meeting
- Listening: A Meeting in Progresslistening lab
- Feedback, Given and Received
- Listening: Receiving Criticismlistening lab
- Speaking Lab: Disagree With Your Managerspeaking lab
- 03
Presenting, Negotiating and the Working Day
7 lessons- Presenting to a German Audience
- Speaking Lab: A Three-Minute Presentationspeaking lab
- Feierabend — Work and Life
- Workplace Culturefill blank
- Writing Lab: A Difficult Messagewriting lab
- + 2 more lessons
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
16 lessons across 3 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.