Strive builds a German course around your reason: a move, a job, a relationship, an exam. The cases come in slowly. The recall queue makes them stay. Lessons stream live, and you read native examples from day one.
Use the four cases without freezing — nominative, accusative, dative, genitive.
Conjugate present and the perfect tense for the verbs you’ll really use.
Build vocabulary aimed at *your* reason for learning German.
Read short native texts and pick up meaning by structure, not translation.
Retain it — recall queue brings the cases and the gendered articles back.
A typical Strive course on German (A1 → A2)
Sound, gender, and the first 200 words5 lessons
Present tense and word order — the rule that explains it all5 lessons
Cases without the panic — nominative & accusative4 lessons
Dative — when “to” and “for” get a case of their own4 lessons
The perfect tense — talking about yesterday4 lessons
Reading a short native text — enough already3 lessons
Demonstration outline — your course is generated around your answers, so module count, depth, and difficulty will differ from this. Across the 6 modules above there are 25 lessons.
Frequently asked
Is this Hochdeutsch or a regional variant?
Hochdeutsch (standard German) by default. The wizard lets you flag Austrian or Swiss German, and the course will note differences where they matter.
Will it teach the genitive properly or skip it?
Properly — but later. The genitive doesn’t earn its place until you’ve worked through the other three cases, so it lands as a refinement, not a confusion.
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