To review the vocabulary for each chapter, please use our Flashcard Program. Suggested procedure:

• Load the vocabulary for one chapter at a time
• Spend 10-15 minutes at a time going through the cards. For each card, try to form a very simple sentence with the word as quickly as you can, and say it out loud
  • Your sentences can be as simple as "[Noun] ist groß/klein/abstrakt; Ich mag [Noun] (nicht); Ich [Verb] (nicht) gern; Ich bin (nicht) [Adjective/Adverb]
  • Absurd/surreal sentences that make you smile can also be effective at helping you learn the word.
  • If you can't think of a sentence right away, just say the word out loud and move on to the next card.

Kapitel 1 Main topics:

• Formal commands
• heißen & sein
• Questions
• der/das/die and ein/ein/eine
• The pronouns er/es/sie
• Nominative Case
• Negation: kein vs nicht

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Kapitel 2 Main topics:

• haben
• Present tense of regular verbs
• gern
• Accusative Case
• Masculine N-nouns (Weak Nouns)
• Verb in Position 2
• Telling time
• Separable verbs
• The position of nicht & a review of nicht vs kein

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• Zeit
• Woche
• Familie
• Farben
• Aussehen

• Present tense of stem-changing verbs
• Accusative Pronouns
• Nominative and Accusative of Possessive Adjectives
• Coordinating Conjunctions: und, denn, sondern, aber, oder
• lieber
• The modal verbs möchte and können
• wissen & kennen
• Noun plurals

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• Nahrungsmittel
• Mahlzeiten
• Getränke
• Früchte
• Gemüse
• Geschirr
• Gebäude

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Kapitel 5 Main topics:

• Conversational Past tense (das Perfekt)
• Present tense verbs with seit, schon and erst
• The subordinating conjunctions weil, dass and ob
• Infinitive clauses with zu
• Word order: What we've learned so far

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Kapitel 6 Main topics:

• Dative Case
• The subordinating conjunction wenn
• Der-words

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Kapitel 7 Main topics:

• Two-way prepositions
• The verb pairs liegen/legen, stehen/stellen, hängen/hängen and sitzen/setzen
• Time expressions
• Word order: time, manner, place
• The subordinating conjunction damit

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• Fahrzeuge
• Gebäude
• Geschäfte
• Positionen
• Richtungen

Kapitel 8 Main topics:

• Reflexive verbs
• Future tense
• Prepositional verbs
• Da- and Wo-compounds

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Kapitel 9, Teil 1 Main topics:

• Relative clauses
• Introduction to Subjunctive II
  • würde + infinitive
  • hätte & wäre

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Kapitel 9, Teil 2 Main topics

• Adjective endings
• Comparative & Superlative

Kapitel 10 Main topics:

• Narrative Past tense
• Als, wenn, wann and ob
• Word order in sentences beginning with a subordinate clause
• Past Perfect tense and the conjunctions bevor & nachdem
• Genitive Case
• See

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Kapitel 11, Teil 1 Main topics:

• Subjunctive II

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Kapitel 11, Teil 2 Main topics:

• Passive Voice
• Summary of the uses of werden

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