Ausbildung und Studium

Talk about education systems, describe your studies, and use the passive voice.

Module 2 of German B1 · about 100 minutes · 14 new words.

Lessons in this module

• Vocabulary — Flashcards with spaced repetition
• Grammar — Rules, tables and guided drills
• Reading — Texts with comprehension questions
• Listening — Listen, transcribe, understand
• Writing — Guided tasks with instant feedback
• Speaking — Say it, hear it, get a score
• Conversation — Real conversations, line by line
• Module quiz — Check what this module taught

Grammar in this module

• The passive voice (Präsens and Präteritum) — The passive shifts focus from the doer to the action. Form it with werden + past participle. The doer, if mentioned, follows von + dative.
• Relative clauses — Relative clauses add extra information about a noun. The relative pronoun matches the noun's gender/number but takes its case from its role in the clause.

Vocabulary you will meet

die Ausbildung · das Studium · die Prüfung · die Note · das Zeugnis · das Stipendium · das Fach · die Vorlesung · bestehen · durchfallen and 4 more. Every word is stored with its article and an example sentence, then scheduled for review by spaced repetition.

Reading: Zwei Wege, ein Ziel. Conversation: Studium oder Ausbildung?.

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