German for Beginners 2: Settling In

Keep going in German with real recorded conversations: setting up a home, shopping, a trip out of town, a working day and a party, with native audio on every line and practice after every lesson.

• Free
• Beginner
• 3 weeks · ~2 hrs/week
• 6 lessons
• ~3 hours
• Certificate on passing the project

Free account required to open the lessons. No card, no fees.

About this course

Part 2 of the German course for Nigerians heading to Germany to work or study, built on the US Foreign Service Institute's German Basic Course recordings, now in the public domain. It follows on from German for Beginners 1. In six lessons you set up a new home, go shopping, plan a trip, get through a working day and hold your own at a social gathering. Every lesson plays real conversations at natural speed in the same consistent voices, then gives you each sentence slowly and clearly so you can listen and repeat, followed by an interactive practice set: listening, typing what you hear, building sentences from word tiles and matching, with mistakes coming back until you get them right. The recordings were made in the 1960s for American diplomats; each lesson says what has changed and how the same moment works for a Nigerian living in Germany today, from renting a flat and registering your address to shopping in euros, working hours and making friends. You finish by recording your own three-scene conversation portfolio.

Welcome back. In the first part you arrived in Germany and made your first phone calls; now you settle in. It is moving day: the Beckers have moved into a house in the suburbs, and their friends the Kellers have come to help. Where is the phone book? Is the heating working? Where do the empty crates go? What are the rents like? By the end you will be able to say where things go and where they are, name rooms and furniture, and ask about the heating and the rent. You also meet this unit's big idea: German chooses between 'stand', 'lie' and 'hang' where English says 'put'.

What you'll learn

• Talking about a new home and furniture
• Shopping, quantities and prices in euros
• Planning a trip and talking about the weather
• Describing your working day and times
• Making conversation at a social gathering
• Talking about what happened (the perfect tense)
• Accepting and declining invitations politely
• Listening to natural spoken German
• Du or Sie in friendships and at work
• German pronunciation for Nigerian English speakers

Course syllabus — 6 lessons

1. Beim Einrichten: moving in, furniture and the rent26 min
2. Beim Einkaufen: shopping for clothes, prices and trying on25 min
3. Eine Fahrt in die Berge: the weather, the seasons and a day in the Alps25 min
4. Im Gasthof Zum Weißen Hirsch: ordering lunch, telling the time and paying26 min
5. Ein Wochentag: errands, the office and three words for 'you'25 min
6. Auf einer Gesellschaft: small talk, family news and the perfect tense25 min

Frequently asked questions

Is German for Beginners 2: Settling In free?

Yes. German for Beginners 2: Settling In is completely free on Skillnaija. You need a free account to open the lessons, and there is no charge for the course, the project, or the certificate.

How long does German for Beginners 2: Settling In take to complete?

3 weeks · ~2 hrs/week. There are 6 lessons, about 3 hours of material in total. You learn at your own pace and your progress is saved.

Do I need any experience to start German for Beginners 2: Settling In?

Beginner. You can start from scratch — no prior experience is assumed.

What will I learn in German for Beginners 2: Settling In?

You will build practical skills in Talking about a new home and furniture, Shopping, quantities and prices in euros, Planning a trip and talking about the weather, Describing your working day and times, Making conversation at a social gathering, Talking about what happened (the perfect tense), Accepting and declining invitations politely, Listening to natural spoken German, Du or Sie in friendships and at work, German pronunciation for Nigerian English speakers. Every lesson is written for a Nigerian context, with examples drawn from how the work is actually done and paid for here.

Do I get a certificate for German for Beginners 2: Settling In?

Yes, but it has to be earned. You complete the course project — Your German conversation portfolio: Part 2 and submit it for grading. Passing the project issues a verifiable certificate; finishing the lessons alone does not.

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