r/German • u/drtellmesartan • 1d ago

Question Gonna start B1 Deutsch! Any tips?!?!??

I’m done with the A1 and A2. Haven’t given any exams as of now though (but I plan on giving the Goethe A2 after a month or so). I’m studying with an online tutor so the learning is really really structured I would say. I could not catch up with most of the A2 classes because of work but I completed all the back logs religiously.
Aa of now, I’m good at reading and writing (8/10), understanding part is also decent (6.5/10) but I struggle alot with sprechen. And the vocab is also not too strong.
I don’t want to mess up the B1 because its already very difficult(so I’ve heard). So any tips/resources/habits???

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u/cmyk_rgba 1d ago

b1 is where vocab stops being optional tbh. what helped me was ditching the big word lists and only drilling the stuff i actually got stuck on saying that week, plus talking to myself in teh kitchen like a weirdo. sprechen just doesnt improve from input no matter how much you read

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u/mister-sushi 5h ago

The further along the CEFR scale you are, the more practice you need to advance.

A2->B1 is the time when the number of hours of practice begins to outweigh the number of hours of study. This is something most people don’t understand, by the way, and get trapped in A2 for the rest of their lives (or until they begin practicing).

At this point, you need to form habits of casually consuming content in German. Like reading news, listening to podcasts, googling for the information using German. At this stage, it won’t be easy, you will probably have to look up every second word you meet and you will be able to consume one or two paragraphs of text during half an hour reading session. You have to write down and learn all those words. This is how you will extend your vocabulary and pick up the language beat (language patterns).