a question we get all the time and a question you might have asked yourself as well how long does it take to learn German from A1 to B1 level so from zero to this B1 this huge milestone for most German Learners in this video I would like to give you a more like realistic time frame how long it takes but not only this we will also go through some other things so I will talk about important factors which actually do affect the speed of how you can learn German then of course the time frame Focus areas all the focus areas you have to focus on while learning German some method and techniques you can Implement so you can speed up this learning process and also comparison between vocabulary and grammar according to each level so how much words how many words do you need to know for each level and what about the grammar for each level and in case you don't know these yet those levels these A1 A2 and so on they come according to this CFR which is a European framework standard thing which whenever you sign up for a course or class online or offline you will see the levels like this so A1 is this complete from zero beginner level A2 is Elementary a B1 is intermediate B2 is Upper Intermediate C1 is Advanced and C2 is proficiency pretty much like a mother tongue speaker let's start with the important factors site how much time do you have how much time can you invest to learn German for example if you have a full-time job and maybe kids you most probably don't have more time than one evening or two evenings a week to learn German if you are a student at University you probably have more time maybe you can take a course for longer maybe three times a week if you are retired you definitely have more time and you can also take it slower mother tongue this is very important for example if your mother tongue is a Germanic language like German is for example English or Dutch or Swedish you will see similarities in terms of vocabulary which makes it easier for you if your mother tongue is a Roman language like Italian French or Spanish you will see similarities in terms of grammar which makes it easier for you if you speak a Slavic language like Russian Ukrainian polish one of the most difficult languages anyway German might be not that hard to learn as well if you speak Arabic also very difficult or Chinese also very difficult you also have this problem of not having the Roman alphabet so you have completely different characters which makes writing and reading more difficult which takes more time another thing in terms of languages how many languages how many foreign languages do you already speak if you only have one mother tongue you only speak your mother tongue and you want to learn German it's definitely going to be hard not impossible not at all but it will be hard if you speak already English maybe Spanish as well on a decent level it will be faster for you it will be easier for you to learn German so it all depends also how many languages you speak now this is for example something when you Google how long to learn German from A1 to B1 you have all different kind of different time frames and there's a lot of people who say yeah I learned German fluent up to fluency in 3 months four months 6 months maybe might be possible but these people they most of them already speak like six1 languages fluently and they have their own techniques and how they learn so it's way easier to learn a new language if you already know other foreign languages where do you learn German if you're lucky enough to learn German in Germany and you're surrounded by speaking and hearing German all day long you can read it everywhere it will easier for you you will progress much faster than if you learn German not in a German speaking countries where most people don't speak German or maybe nobody there you will have it more difficult and there you will need more time whenever you can immerse yourself as much as possible with German it will be easier number motiv very important factor what is your motivation to learn German what is your goal for example if you know you have a chob opportunity in Germany but you need to have this B2 level or B1 level at least until the end of the year maybe in months or something your motivation is huge and you want to get to this level as fast as soon as possible so you will do a lot more than somebody who just says oh today I'm bored what else can I do now oh let's learn some German most probably not going to happen you will give up very fast so when learning German you have to have a motivation you have to have a goal where you can work too and you also have to enjoy it don't see it as a must try to have fun with it try to enjoy it because it will take time and it will take a lot of self- discipline so try to enjoy it as much and try to keep you motivated while learning German all right let's go to the time frame the time needed from A1 to B1 kind of the average time needed again all these factors we just talked about before they all affect the time of course now three different scenarios two * two hours per week meaning two evenings for example per week at two hours which is like a arent c even in class so it's like four hours a week first scenario so an intensive course will be around like three days a week three hours each time and 25 hours a week so that's like five hours five days a week five hours which is pretty much a full-time job so this is called for example a super intensive course definitely not impossible so it is a possible scenario but most people do not have this time in case you do if if you're lucky enough to have this much time then you can do go for it but keep in mind that you always have to review now all these times here for example the so you have class two hours two days a week now this is just class time and this applies to online or offline classes it doesn't matter you don't think that you can just sit there consume go home do something else and then go to the next class and then after two years you speak German that's not going to happen so you have to review you have to do your homework and you have to review what you did in class so first review then do your homework and then review again so for all these scenarios here this is just kind of the class time you still would have to add additional review time one two hours for each class so how long does it take for scenario number it's around 2 years from A1 to be1 with twice a week two hours will take you around two years scenario it's about 1.5 years the almost impossible POS one is 6 months if you have this super super intensive class maybe around 6 months possible again it's possible but very hard so calculate more like something between one and a half and two years to get to a decent P1 level and again keep in mind if you do not do your homework if you don't review you can kind of trible those times so if you don't do your homework you don't review don't you just attend the class instead of two years might take you six years so this is really a huge Factor House of gon review Focus areas this is just little quick is actually not too new for you I guess so we have Len is reading he which is listening which is speaking and Sh which is writing those are also the four parts which each and every exam has kind of it divided into so you have these four parts when you take an exam for a specific level important there is also something else you have to focus on you have to focus on all these but try to keep it like depends on you what you want if you just want to speak be able to speak and writing is not important for you then focus on don't forget about grammatic Point number F the ktic it's really important especially if you are in the beginning of your German Journey focus on this grammar because once you get to this B1 level maybe in an intensive class and then you want to go higher and you see ah this is there now it's getting so difficult but actually most of the grammar you already learned you just never learned it properly and this is what happens to a lot of people students who take intensive classes who Rush too fast earen this B1 level or take a B1 course but they Pro more most probably are at beginning A2 level so you can imagine yourself if you are taking a B1 class and then your teacher says yeah instead of going to B2 now you should go back to A1 to review and get the grammar right not very motivating right so if you are at the beginning try to make it right from the beginning and focus also add this Focus area grammatic also into your into your learning process now we offer online courses now for a couple years already and we get this feedback often from students who actually are in a higher level but they realized at some point that they never focused on this grammar and they need to review this so online courses like ours for example they are perfectly for this so because you will have lifetime access you can learn whenever and wherever you want and you can specifically go through each part review it again review it again Watch the video again and everything like kind of when whenever you have time so that's why these online courses are very useful in terms of reviewing and of course for the other people who take online courses also we have a lot of them people who just don't have to stress that much it's like oh take it easy I want to learn German whenever I want or whenever I have time and not like attending classes which are like always on Monday from 6:00 to 8 and Wednesday on 6:00 to 8 and maybe you can only attend 70% so it makes more sense to take an online course where you can learn wherever and whenever you want methods and techniques Techni little quick methoden just like the most common one of course if you're lucky enough to attend classes in a in a language school or in a Language Institute do this even if you have the money for it one one tutoring one1 private tutor is definitely the most efficient way most efficient method to learn German the other one is online courses which I just talked about is is very good to review things but also if you like kind of you want to learn on your own schedule or you do not have the option of a language class nearby link to our courses you found down in the description then some techniques is two talk after to repeat this is a very very important technique and easy to do because whether it's offline online or whatever classes you can do this with YouTube videos you can do this with podcasts if they are too fast slow it down and then so whatever you hear stop it this sentence and try to repeat after always just like this loud you have to do it loud that's important but like this you can like not only improve your listening skills but also of course your speaking skills k k is German for intelligence AI artificial intelligence which is now getting better and better make use of this is it chat GPT or Bing or B whatever you use even Siri on iPhone um you can use as well you can chat with them in German like you can speak and if your speaking is well enough then they will understand you otherwise they will tell you no worries but these are like options like this is a common problem for German Learners that they don't have somebody to talk to use those they're robots but they still speak German they have a decent German level believe me and try to just use them to communicate the grammar explanation is not that good yet they're not there yet for German at least but just for talking just for talking practicing very useful and of course if you like movies or music always listen to music German music as often as possible again just immerse yourself surround yourself with German as often as possible in terms of movies watch movies you already maybe saw three times you love this movie you know what this movie is about now in instead of watching this movie in your mother tongue watch it in German and last but not least most important House of g v homework and review like already mentioned before this is a huge part always always do your homework and review the class which you just attended again also if you take for example intensive classes do it not from A1 to B1 try to make it level by level so if you have a super intensive class which is a good thing of course if you have the option to go through fast do it but then take time off and review for yourself review it by yourself before you go on to the next level vocabulary and grammar an now here just a kind of a list of how the amount of words for each level so for A1 it's around 500 you need to know A2 1,100 b00 b600 3500000 which is a lot so this in total from A1 to C2 around 15,500 V 14,500 Words which is around the average of a German mother tongue speaker so an average German knows or uses around 14,500 words again this is a lot a lot and this is only used or needed if you really want to get to this C2 level which is like a mother tongue speaker ktic let's look at the grammar little quick here also according to the level very general A1 and A2 is the essential grammar for whole the entire German language the most important things for the German language for the grammar you will learn in A1 and A2 like for example verb conjugation the cases nominative acquisitive tative tenses different tenses you can use sentence structure declension of adjectives which is an A2 level but most probably you will only know this until C1 but you will learn it in A2 and so on so the most important grammar is actually taught in A1 and A2 in most big textbooks textbooks you will have it like this B1 if you finish B1 you have pretty much all the grammar you need for daily life so at the end of B1 you are grammar wise you know pretty much all the important things again for the daily life B2 and C1 is more like for written German the grammar you learn in B2 and C1 is more for written German this means like if you want to read books magazines or any kind of specific scientific books there you will have specifically grammar for written German which you learn in those levels and in C2 there's almost no new grammar it's just about specific cases and again like vocabulary a lot so when we compare those things we just look at A1 and A2 and B1 just until B1 for Words A1 to B1 is around 25% so you in terms of vocabulary from A1 to B1 you learn around 25% of the entire vocabulary in terms of grammar you learn about 70% so this here is just to show you that the beginner levels these A1 A2 levels are very very important in terms of grammar because after B1 there's not too much grammar been taught so you have to know those levels these grammar things taught in A1 and A2 otherwise it will be very hard for you terms of vocabulary this is something I would like to mention as well in the bonus tip which is don't expect to be fluent with B1 level don't expect to be fluent with B1 level sounds hard but just to keep it realistic when we just compare the words the amount of words until B1 it's around 3,400 words you will know until the end of B1 if you do your homework and if you memorize all the words given this is a lot and this is definitely enough for daily talking you have you will be able to have conversations you will probably understand most of the conversations you hear on the streets it will be enough to communicate in German without almost using any English for example but it's just 25% of the entire vocabulary just to show you not to demotivate you it's just to show you at B1 level don't expect you to be fluent fluency is C1 C2 level and this for this you need a lot of more vocabulary and if you are at the beginning of your German journey I suggest to watch this video here which gives you more additional tips and tricks more specific information how to learn German I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you learned something I hope you're still motivated next byebye
