The German Basic Course is designed to provide students with a useful knowledge of the structure of the spoken language and with a basic vocabulary to use in both official and social situations. Each unit consists of basic memorized drills, vocabulary drills, pronunciation drills, and conversational practice.
Units 1 - 12 introduce numbers, present tense of common verbs, gender, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and future and past tenses of common verbs.
Units 13 - 24 include added work in the past tenses, the pluperfect tense, the subjunctive tense, infinitives, conditional tenses, auxiliary verbs, relative pronouns, present and past participles, and additional study of prepositions and conjunctions.
