Building Blocks

Numbers, colors, days of the week, prepositions, question words. These are the raw materials you need before you can say anything useful. Most of them are closer to English than you’d guess.

Lessons in this module:

1. Numbers & Counting — Count, tell prices, give phone numbers.
2. Colors — Many German colors are cognates of English ones.
3. Days, Months & Time — Tell time, make appointments, talk about schedules.
4. Prepositions — In, on, at, with — and which case they require.
5. Question Words — Who, what, where, when, why, how.
6. Conjunctions — And, but, because, if — connecting sentences.