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Do you dream of walking through a German town, effortlessly understanding the locals and perhaps even catching a play?
Or wish that you could apply for that dream job in Germany and check the language box without a second thought?
Or do you have a German sweetheart and family and you want to stop sounding like a small child when you communicate with them?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then you know that learning the German language will enrich your life in countless exciting new ways.
You want to learn German because it’s going to open the door to amazing experiences and rewarding new relationships.
In short, German is the language for you!
But even though you’re excited to learn German, perhaps you are also feeling apprehensive and wondering if you can really learn to speak this language fluently.
If you’re wondering how to make the right start and learn German so you can speak it with ease and achieve your life goals, this will be one of the most exciting things you have read in a long time.
Your Instructor
Hi, I'm Kerstin Cable. I'm a native German speaker and fluent in five languages. I love researching and teaching languages to others. I have been teaching languages for 6 years, from relaxed 1-to-1 sessions in coffee shops to online classes with CEOs and university lectures in world-class institutions. I have made 200+ episodes of the Fluent Show podcast and have been featured as a language expert on The Cut, BBC, The Guardian & more.
When I tell people that I am a German teacher, they often say:
“I would love to learn German, but I think it’s just such a hard language.”
Is German really hard to learn?
Some people certainly thought so.
Have you ever read what Mark Twain said about the German language in his 1880 essay “The Awful German Language”?
“Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.”
Oh my!
As you can tell, Mark Twain was not a happy learner. Throughout his career, he reported on his frustrations and confusions about the German verb and grammar systems.
But as an aspiring German learner, I want you to know that the way to becoming a fluent German speaker doesn’t have to involve suffering through horrible grammar lessons.
This isn’t 1880, after all.
For you, German is about communication. You’re here to make fast progress and enjoy yourself a little, too.
And I have great news:
There is a new way to learn the German language, and it won’t feel like “study” at all.
Even Mark Twain would have loved this method. It involves learning through an exciting story, but more on that later.
Learning German Without Painful Grammar Lessons
The biggest hurdle standing in the way of success for German learners is the way that the rules of German grammar are taught.
Now, you might think you’ve tried learning German before, but the language was just too hard.
Here are just a few of the common problems I have seen so many German learners struggle with:
- Wanting to speak freely, but feeling completely trapped and caught up in worrying about word gender for every single noun
- Getting trapped in the German case system while trying to memorize huge tables showing dozens of different endings
- Boring grammar lessons, focused on explaining the same complicated structures again and again...and feeling like you're sinking in a sea of complicated grammar rules
Overly complicated grammar study is like a monster chasing all the joy out of learning German
The grammar monster loves it when German is taught in boring rules…
…and it eats your exam anxiety for breakfast.
People say that learning a language means suffering through its grammar. That might be true if you only have tired, old-fashioned methods available to you.
I don’t know about you, but I was sick of the grammar monster!
I set out to find a better way to do things.
As a German teacher who loves sharing my beautiful native language, it was clear to me that something had to change.
After many years of teaching languages, learning languages, researching and developing my skills, one thing became clear to me:
It’s time to create a radically different way of learning German.
Smart, modern learners don’t need another verb table or grammar lesson. They’ve done all that before.
So as I started looking around for the most effective and innovative ways to learn a language, something incredible happened.
Imagine me in a Sherlock Holmes coat , scouring the books and blogs for hints that would help me find out why German was so difficult to learn.
One day, I was approached with a tip.
A tip that blew the case of beating grammar monster WIDE open.
This story-based method can make learning German grammar a breeze!
You see, I'm lucky to be friends with language learning expert Olly Richards. He had recently done some research about how stories could be used to teach the German language.
Olly and I started to talk, and we came up with a language learning method that will have you reading and enjoying German from the first page.
"It is said that reading in the foreign language increases your speed in learning and comprehension. I found this to be true. The more chapters I did, the better the outcome and ease of the program."
- Tina Denton, Texas, US
It’s true! The story-based method of learning a language has been studied around the world.
Kató Lomb, a Hungarian professional translator and multilingual, learned a lot of her sixteen languages through reading novels.
But it’s not just language professionals who use this method:
- In Hungary, a 2007 study showed that students learning with stories can learn more vocabulary than students in regular classes…without any study at all!
- One 2014 study in Spain demonstrated that this style of teaching worked about six times faster than traditional instruction.
Research shows that these methods (often known as “input-based”) outperform traditional methods.
The method focuses your brain on making sense of new information, and it helps you create valuable context to remember and understand every rule.
So for you as the German learner, that means there is a way to acquire German without studying.
When you read stories in German using this method, you will be learning unconventionally.
And yet, you’ll find that you are able to learn grammar and vocabulary naturally, without having to memorise a single rule.
This method has worked for me when learning new languages as a solo learner. I’ve also tested it with Olly and with many German learners over the last year.
For example, take my student Tina who discovered how it feels to learn German naturally in this way:
Whether you want to learn to speak German so you can make new friends, bring your family closer together, create exciting career opportunities, or simply explore your love of German literature or drama..
Start learning with stories, and you’ll wonder why you never learned this way from the start!
Having experienced this revolutionary method, Olly and I were excited to create a unique new opportunity to learn German:
A course that puts story first and lets you learn German while enjoying natural sentences and dialogue, not lists of conjugations and tables of declensions.
The result was..
German Uncovered
German Uncovered is a comprehensive online programme to learn German using the power of story.
By the time you complete German Uncovered, you’ll have an Intermediate Level of German (B1 on the CEFR), and be a confident German speaker, able to:
- Converse with people in confident German, making new friends or deepening existing relationships
- Travel to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland as an “insider”, not just another tourist
- Improve your career prospects by applying for German-language jobs and impress everyone who looks at your CV
- Indulge your passion for the German way of life, and deepen your knowledge of culture and history by reading in the original language
- Keep your brain fit and agile, preparing your brain for a healthy old-age, including staving off several forms of dementia
- Or finally complete the learning project you began at school many years ago that has been nagging at you ever since!
The foundation of the course is a story:
Der Mann mit dem Hut.
(The title translates as: The Man with the Hat.)
Let's talk about how German Uncovered works…
The process of learning with German Uncovered is as natural as turning the pages of a gripping story, because this course is a story, not a textbook.
I created every explanation and every new word that I teach you on the basis of Der Mann mir dem Hut.
In practice, that means you will start in a very unusual way..
1) Immerse yourself in the German Story
You’ll begin by immersing yourself in the first chapter of Der Mann mit dem Hut.
By reading the story and listening to the accompanying audiobook, you'll begin with an immersive experience that builds your ability to understand written and spoken German from the start.
Unlike a regular German course, we don’t ask you to understand what you’re reading at first.
Instead, your job is to simply immerse yourself and enjoy the language!
After spending time with the story in German, you can check your understanding with a full English translation, so you can follow the plot and keep up with what happens on the page.
2) Discover the Secrets Hidden in the Text
After spending time reading and listening to the story, it’s time to spend time with a teacher and uncover how the German language emerges from the pages of our story.
I will teach you through over 80 personal video lessons. Based on the proven method that puts story first, you’ll be amazed to see and hear the German language come alive with each video.
You’ll learn in three sections for each chapter:
Cognates
Discover hundreds of German words that share a root with the English language, making it so simple for you to remember them.
Vocabulary
I’ll take key German words and phrases that you have encountered in the story and guide you through them so you can discuss more new topics after every story chapter.
Grammar
Learn grammar in a natural way, discovering structures from the story that explain rather than instruct.
In this course, you will not be asked to memorise tables of conjugations and rows of vocabulary before you can enjoy the language.
Here in German Uncovered, you’ll understand first and study only what you need.
The video lessons are friendly and straightforward, and our interactive technology means you’ll get the benefit of a real lesson any time you like.
Even though I’m your German teacher for this entire course, you’ll soon realise that it’s you who is learning independently.
You will notice that you already are learning German from our story, and my explanations help you take what you learnt and put it all together in your own sentences and expressions.
Throughout the course, you’ll benefit from my years of university-level teaching experience.
Plus, you’ll also hear from Olly as he joins me to share useful tips about staying motivated and learning as quickly as possible.
3) Understand German on a Deeper Level
If you’re thinking “wow, this all sounds like so much fun”, you’re absolutely right. Like our student Tina, chances are you’ll move through the course and love the story you are reading in German.
After each of our lessons, I give you the tools to go into depth and consolidate what you just learnt through detailed workbooks of exercises.
At every level, these workbooks help you build your solid foundation in German and get yourself ready to progress at your own pace.
The workbook exercises are not the usual dry textbook phrases, either. Most exercises are based on the story you have been reading.
This way, you’ll engage in more meaningful learning and find it easier to remember more German in less time…without having to study!
4) Start Speaking German
After you have read the story, listened to it, and practiced your new vocab and grammar, most textbooks will say “that’s it” and have you move on to the next level.
But here in German Uncovered, the goal is to help you do what you dream of doing: to speak German freely, fluently, remembering all the words as you put together beautiful sentences with great pronunciation.
So how does the course help you get over the awkward speaking period so you can start talking to German friends, family and colleagues?
There are two crucial steps:
- Pronunciation Training with my 20 training videos and explanations, helping you focus on every single one of the important sounds of the German language and practice them immediately. In these videos, you’ll learn the same techniques that I used to achieve my own native level accent in the English language.
- Conversation Starter Kits: In German Uncovered, you will find 20 handy kits full of speaking prompts designed for two people. These packs are written for one learner (you) and one teacher (your tutor or conversation partner). They systematically progress you through increasing levels of conversational ability from the basics to B1 intermediate level.
Writing these conversation exercises was one of my favourite parts of making the entire course for you, because I was able to infuse them with a sense of humour and create entertaining, exciting activities for you at every step of the way.
From finding your way in a new town to helping exasperated tourists, you’ll soon find yourself comfortably chatting in German with native speakers.
I really appreciate how the course is set up and the method of listening to the story first and then reading it. The cognate lesson is really useful because it helps us relate it back to English which helps me understand the vocabulary quicker and better.
Also the grammar lessons are great because Kerstin's explanations are concise and easy to understand and apply.
The quizzes and homework are also relevant and challenging enough to push us to learn quicker but not too much to frustrate us, which is very hard to achieve but extremely important in language learning.
That was the hard part for me when trying to find a course to learn Spanish with and it took me time to find a teacher who could do that but luckily with German I found it the first try with German Uncovered.
It is absolutely wonderful and most important it makes learning German fun and exciting!
- Russ Warren, North Carolina, USA
How To Stick With This Programme
I know from my own experience that fizzling out and giving up are the biggest risks of failure in any language learning project. This is no different for you as a German learner.
In fact, maybe you’ve even tried and given up a few times before and you’re beginning to wonder if you can ever get the hang of speaking German.
In the German Uncovered course, we’ve created a unique structure that makes it easier than ever to stick with learning the language.
The intriguing story is the heart of this course, making it easy to follow and creating clear milestones for you so that you can always see your progress.
Throughout the course, our story helps you maintain your motivation and stick with the programme.
The result?
Your goal of reading the entire story will become the secret to staying excited about your study and feeling yourself get better with every single page.
When I started German Uncovered, I was around A2 in German and needed something to solidify my knowledge of the basics. The description of German Uncovered showed a framework through stories to practice cognates, pronunciation, basic grammar and that is what interested me the most.
Even from the first lessons, I felt like I got a lot of value from the pronunciation tips and the cognates review.
I think that when I started my B1 courses I had a solid foundation. I was ahead of my peers on word recognition and pronunciation and German Uncovered was certainly part of my toolkit.
- Eloy Ruiz Donayre, from Peru and now living in Germany
And now for an extra special treat -- in this SPECIAL COURSE OFFER ONLY, I'm including the German Accent & Pronunciation Masterclass.
This course will help you cut through complicated sounds and understand exactly what native speakers are saying.
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Original Price: $79
I have been attempting to learn German for far too many years and had not gotten very far. Some years my comprehension would be better, but speaking eluded me. I liked the idea of using story to learn grammar and a language.
My comprehension has improved. My spoken German is improving and I am not as afraid to order “auf Deutsch” in a local deli where there are a lot of German speaking employees.
I recently took an online test of my level of comprehension and I had jumped a level without cheating and using the internet translators.
I enjoyed your interaction with Olly and your videos.
- Roger Schert, Seattle, Washington USA
How To Study With German Uncovered
German Uncovered is a self-study course that you take online.
The learning area is extremely easy and intuitive to use and even if you’re not an experienced online learner you’ll find that it all “just works” once you get started.
- Member’s Area: The course curriculum guides you through German Uncovered and makes browsing and accessing all lessons as easy as opening a book.
- In-Course Language Answers: If there is something that you do not understand, you will be able to comment on each lecture with your question and I will get back to you with an answer or explanation.
- Responsive Design: This course will work on your desktop computer, phone, and tablet.
- Fully downloadable materials: You don’t have to be connected to the internet while you study. Download the story, worksheets, videos, and audio onto any device and take it with you anywhere so you can learn on the go.
- Lifetime Access and Updates: The course is yours to access for as long as you like. And if there are any updates or improvements, you’ll get those for FREE so your version is never out of date.
- Customer Support: If you get stuck or run into technical trouble, you can simply contact us. As a German Uncovered learner you’ll receive fast, reliable, and friendly customer support from an expert.
Who is this for?
If You're a Complete Beginner
German Uncovered is a complete study programme that helps you learn German through the power of a story. It covers every skill you need: listening, speaking, reading and writing, plus grammar and vocabulary.
Olly and I have created this course because we want this to be THE German course that makes you say “this was the one that got me to my goal.”
If You Already Know Some German (Upper Beginner)
Do you already know some basics in German?
Perhaps you’ve had a few conversations while travelling, or studied a few units in a traditional textbook?
Many of my students take German Uncovered even when they are not quite beginners anymore, and they find it very beneficial because
- The story pulls together all the fragments you have learnt before and helps you create sense and fluency out of them
- The explanations don’t focus on lists and tables, so you find you’ll remember everything much more comfortably.
- You have a head start and you can read the story more easily right from the first page!
If You're an Intermediate German Learner
If you already study at an intermediate level, have studied/practiced for over 100 hours, and have natural conversations, this course is not right for you.
Money-Back Guarantee
I know that your investment in the German language is precious, and I want you to feel 100% safe in making this purchase.
Therefore, I offer you a 100% money-back guarantee on German Uncovered for 30 days, so you have time to try the course out.
If it isn’t right for you, simply send a message to me and you will receive a full refund of your payment.
Given the results I have seen with this course already, I am confident that you will learn German with German Uncovered and you won’t need to ask for your money back.
But the guarantee is there nonetheless, so you can join today with peace of mind.
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It’s been more than ten years since I last touched the German language, and I was worried about just how much I may have lost. I quit because the grammar got me down and I couldn’t push past it or find a better way to approach the language.
What I had been taught to do in school was too ingrained and I couldn’t break free from grammar drills.
Then I enrolled in German Uncovered.
After completing just one module in the course, I was able to revive much of my lost German (and perhaps more!). I booked my first lesson with a tutor and flew through all the material, keeping the lesson almost entirely in German!
- Shannon Kennedy, language obsessed founder of eurolinguiste.com
"After playing with Rosetta Stone and Duolingo, I decided that the story approach sounded like it would provide me with a better understanding of what was happening grammatically, since reading is my main focus.
What I enjoyed most from the course, and what I have returned to afterwards, were the video lectures. These provided much more value to me than trying to work through various tiles and try to work out the patterns on my own.
Your series of lectures, broken out into various subjects, grammar, vocabulary, cognates, and pronunciation, were extremely helpful in identifying the underlying patterns of the German language. The 898 page pdf textbook which accompanies the video lectures is an excellent resource, as well! "
- Bill O'Toole, Texas, USA
"I chose German Uncovered because I am convinced that a language should be learned as it used: in sentences and dialogue, not lists of conjugations and tables of declensions."
- Debbie Thomassen
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If you have read this far, I know you are serious about getting started and really learning the German language.
You're ready to
- become the version of you that can easily switch into the German language for a chat, understand what people say and reply in confident, fluent German, all while sounding so kick-ass good that people remark on your great accent..
- express yourself in German and speak to friends, family, and colleagues in the German language..
- read books in German and feel confident rather than frustrated when new career opportunities appear with German companies..
- stick with learning German because this time you can follow the course and you really do get it instead of secretly despairing over getting an ending wrong..
- And if you just straight up want to have both fun and success with this language..
.. now it’s time to join German Uncovered and become one of the many success stories that I have heard since I created this course.
I’ll see you on the inside,
Kerstin
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