Woche 1: Overview and Objectives

Kapitel 1

Woche 1

Overview

Let's begin discovering German! This week introduces cognates, typing, pronunciation, and umlauts. Cognates are German words that you will recognize because they have (nearly) the same spelling as in English, even if they don't always have exactly the same meaning or pronunciation. You will also learn how to type German characters and how to pronounce of German words based on the sounds of different combinations of letters. Umlauts are special German characters that result in different pronunciations of vowel sounds.

Your only assignment this week will be to join a group. Group work will begin next week.

Objectives

At the end of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Recognize, understand, and employ cognates and be able to produce examples of English-German cognates.
  2. Recognize, understand, and employ the sounds of German.
  3. Recognize, understand, and employ vowels with umlauts and be able to reproduce the sounds of umlauted vowels in pronunciation.