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German C2: mastery lessons

C2 is about precision and nuance: the right particle, the fitting idiom, the exact word and the register that suits every reader.

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What C2 means

C2 is the highest level of the CEFR. You understand virtually everything heard or read with ease, can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments in a coherent presentation, and express yourself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in complex situations.

The best-known certificate is the Goethe-Zertifikat C2: Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom. Few jobs require C2, but it opens doors in teaching, translation, journalism, law and senior leadership, and it is a rewarding goal in itself.

Practise alongside the lessons

30 lessons

Lesson 1Lesson 1: Stilebenen : one message, five registersLesson 2Lesson 2: Modalpartikeln : small words, big attitudesLesson 3Lesson 3: Redewendungen : idioms at the dinner tableLesson 4Lesson 4: Floskeln und Metaphern : decoding the language of powerLesson 5Lesson 5: Sprichwörter und Anspielungen : reading between the lines of a columnLesson 6Lesson 6: Erzähltexte analysieren : perspective and free indirect speechLesson 7Lesson 7: Gedichte lesen : metre, rhyme and imageryLesson 8Lesson 8: Satzklammer und Nachfeld : untangling long sentencesLesson 9Lesson 9: Nominalstil : density versus clarityLesson 10Lesson 10: Konjunktiv I und II : wishes, unreal worlds and reported speechLesson 11Lesson 11: Rhetorik : the art of persuasionLesson 12Lesson 12: Festreden : toasts, laudations and farewellsLesson 13Lesson 13: Gutachten : peer review and academic critiqueLesson 14Lesson 14: Kritik : from praise to VerrissLesson 15Lesson 15: Satire : irony, understatement and the punchlineLesson 16Lesson 16: Dialekte : regional varieties of GermanLesson 17Lesson 17: Jugendsprache : slang, chat style and colloquial GermanLesson 18Lesson 18: Sprachwandel : anglicisms, Denglisch and gendernLesson 19Lesson 19: Rechtssprache : reading contracts and judgmentsLesson 20Lesson 20: Leitartikel : business journalism and editorialsLesson 21Lesson 21: Begriff und Erkenntnis : thinking in abstract GermanLesson 22Lesson 22: Sprachmittlung : mediating between languages and culturesLesson 23Lesson 23: Diplomatisch ablehnen : saying no without closing doorsLesson 24Lesson 24: Erzählen : perspective, voice and suspense in your own storiesLesson 25Lesson 25: Feuilleton : joining Germany's cultural debatesLesson 26Lesson 26: Das treffende Wort : synonyms, nuance and connotationLesson 27Lesson 27: Wortbildung : compounds, derivations and neologismsLesson 28Lesson 28: Gesprochene Sprache : how real conversations workLesson 29Lesson 29: Lektorat : finding the errors that even good writers makeLesson 30Lesson 30: Prüfung und Weiterlernen : the C2 exam and beyond
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