Can you really learn to speak German online? Do you not need to go to a brick and mortar building, attend classes – preferably with a native speaker – and pour over endless lists of vocabulary and grammatical rules in order to gain an at least rudimentary understanding of the language? Well, in the early days of language learning, these were indeed the favored methods of introducing new students to the language.

Yet with the advent of the Internet and with the many new innovations that mark the increases in user-friendliness of the online experience, your wanting to learn to speak German can now be accommodated via the Internet with little or no problems. Depending on your level of familiarity with the language, you may wish to choose a program that is applicable to your knowledge level. For example, if you have never been exposed to the language at all, you will most certainly wish to choose a course that is specifically geared for beginners. If, on the other hand, you have a rudimentary understanding of the German alphabet with its umlaut, and other idiosyncrasies, and if you already know some basic words and phrases, then you will be able to learn to speak German in an advanced beginners’ class.

No matter which kind of class you choose for your online experience, the focus usually rests on your learning everyday vocabulary which you will then combine with everyday grammar in order to put together some simple sentences. In time, you will learn to speak German by putting together the sentences and making them more complicated as you also increase your knowledge of the vocabulary. In addition to the controlled lists of important vocabulary, you can be guaranteed that you will not be subjected to words and phrases you will never ever need!