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German grammar is not hard piece by piece; it is hard all at once. So this plan orders it: nouns with their articles and plurals, the two word-order rules that cover most sentences, then the cases separately, with a weekly speaking session throughout and an A2 practice test as the checkpoint.

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Goal

Reach a confident A2 in German Month 8

Everyday conversation, and the grammar to keep building on.

Building blocks Month 2

Articles, plurals and word order, before anything else.

  • Choose one course organised around the A1 and A2 levelsDo firstDay 3
  • Learn every noun with its article and its pluralWeek 2
  • Get word order right: verb second, and verb last after weil and dassWeek 6

Cases, one at a time Month 5

Hard together, manageable separately.

  • Learn the accusative with its common prepositionsMonth 3
  • Add the dative, and practise with separable verbsMonth 5

Speaking and a checkpoint Month 8

A weekly conversation and a practice test to measure against.

  • Book a weekly speaking session with a tutor or partnerDo firstWeek 4
  • Take an A2 practice test and note the weakest skillMonth 7
  • Decide whether to book an official A2 or B1 examMonth 8

Routines

  • 40 minutes of Germandaily
  • Write 5 sentences with this week's grammarweekly
Skills
  • GermanBeginner → Intermediate

    Log practice here. A2 takes a few hundred hours, so the total is the honest measure of progress.

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German speaking session

Week 418:3045 min
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Articles, cases and word order

German nouns have three genders and the article changes with the case, so a noun learned without der, die or das is only half learned.

Word order has two rules that cover most sentences: the verb comes second, and after words like weil and dass it goes to the end.

Take the cases one at a time. Accusative first, then dative. Genitive can wait.

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Learn German, answered.

The US Foreign Service Institute estimates around 900 class hours for an English speaker to reach professional working ability, a little more than for Spanish or French. A2, enough for everyday situations, takes a few hundred hours, which is why this plan runs eight months with a longer daily session.
They are levels from the Common European Framework of Reference, running from A1 for beginners to C2 for near-native mastery. Most German courses and official exams, such as the Goethe-Zertifikat, are organised around them, so they make useful checkpoints.
Three genders, four cases that change articles and endings, and word order that sends the verb to the end of some clauses. None of it is difficult on its own, which is why this plan introduces the cases one at a time instead of together.
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