By the end
What you'll build
- Use German idioms and proverbs naturally, and understand them when they come at you
- Deploy the flavouring particles that carry tone in spoken German
- Recognise and produce German humour — dry, precise and largely wordplay
- Build an argument with the evidence-first structure German audiences expect
- Hold a room: pacing, pauses, presence and recovery
- Deliver a three-minute signature talk in German
Curriculum
What's inside
3 modules · 14 lessons
- 01
Idiom and Colour
5 lessons- The Idioms Nobody Teaches Youmetaphor idiom
- The Particles That Carry Tone
- Reading the Tonefill blank
- German Humour Exists
- Listening: Wit in Conversationlistening lab
- 02
Building an Argument
4 lessons- How a German Room Wants to Be Convinced
- Argument Structurefill blank
- Speaking Lab: Argue a Positionspeaking lab
- Listening: Someone Who Argues Welllistening lab
- 03
Voice, Presence and the Signature Talk
5 lessons- Holding a German Roompresence lab
- Building the Signature Talkspeech template
- Deliver Your Signature Talkspeech practice
- Tongue Twisters: Fluency at Speedtongue twister
- Final Check: German on Stagequiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
14 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.