English/German: Lesson One

Welcome to lesson one of the English/German course. In this lesson, we'll go over simple vocabulary and grammar.

Introduction to the Language
If provided with the right tools, no language is too difficult to learn.

The Foreign Service Institute or FSI have labeled German as the only Category II language, i.e. it is similar to English. Since English is part of the Germanic language group, German and English both share a couple of similarities, but not always. The knowledge of other Germanic languages can prove most useful

Gender
First to be noted, is the gender system in German.

Articles
German articles focus largely on gender.