Learning German Worksheets

Worksheets are available in many learning German workbooks. Some of the most effective are the Instant Immersion series and the Rosetta Stone series of books. A website filled with online worksheets is Languages Online, which has pages for beginners through experts.

Worksheets ask you to match English and German words, fill in German sentences with the correct words, choose the subject and the object of a sentence and choose the correct verb tense and word case to use in a phrase or sentence. Since all German words are categorized as male, female or neuter, many worksheets focus on agreement between articles and nouns.

Create your own German worksheets to practice the language in different ways. Make word scrambles, word match-ups, crossword puzzles and word searches. All of these can enhance German vocabulary and spelling skills. Also use a writing program to create fill in the blank German sentences or paragraphs, multiple choice quizzes and reading comprehension paragraphs and questions.

Printable worksheets emphasizing vocabulary are available free online. They provide practice for associating German words with pictures of common items like clothing and food or with English phrases and their German counterparts. Most of the free printables are separated by category, so that one worksheet covers numbers and another covers colors and so on. To mix types of words, you will probably have to make your own or pay for worksheets.

For more advanced students, there are some reading comprehension activities available, either as paragraphs with accompanying multiple choice questions or as Cloze activities (many fill in the blank sentences put together into a cohesive paragraph).

Finally, there are many purely informational sheets. While these worksheets don't require students to answer any questions, they make excellent study guides. They give information on the German alphabet and pronunciation, verb conjugation, word genders, articles, word meanings and common phrases.