3 Minute German - Free taster course | Lessons for beginners (Udemy.com)
Learn to speak German you can use in everyday real-world situations - all in just 3-minute chunks!
Created by: Kieran Ball
Last updated April 2025
What you will learn
- Speak German confidently and comfortably in everyday situations
- Understand what's being said back to you
- Be more than just an average tourist when travelling to German speaking countries
- Go from complete beginner to building your own sentences after the very first lesson
- Build a solid base vocabulary of words and phrases you can use straight away in the real world
- Understand and use grammatical and linguistic features of the German language with ease
- Understand the structure of the German language
- Get to grips with German pronunciation
Course Description
Hallo! Hello and welcome to 3 Minute German :-)
3 Minute German is a collection of online lessons that helps the complete beginner learn to speak German in simple, bite-sized chunks.
The lessons start off by giving you a few words that you can use to build your own sentences. For example, in lesson one, you'll learn these words and phrases:
gut - good
es ist - it is
fantastisch - fantastic
hier - here
sehr - very
es ist nicht - it isn't
With those words, you can build sentences like these:
It's good.
It's here.
It's very good here.
It isn't here.
It isn't good; it's fantastic!
(See if you can translate those five sentences above into German just by using those words and phrases.)
The lessons continuously build on what you've been learning, enabling you to express yourself fluently in German. As you move through the course, you'll pick up new vocabulary, useful grammar points and interesting ways to look at the structure of the German language that will give you plenty of "Aha!" moments.
The reason it's called "3 Minute German" is because the lessons are broken down into very short, three-minute chunks. Everybody, no matter how busy you are, has time to fit in a single three-minute lesson once a day, and in fact, by keeping learning to such short chunks, you'll reap huge benefits. Short but consistent daily lessons are more effective than a longer lesson once or twice a week, because you'll find you maintain enthusiasm, develop a learning habit and you'll also memorise everything much better.
If you've never learnt German before, or if you have had a bad experience with learning this beautiful language, the 3 Minute German lessons will help you to succeed.
Danke :-)
Kieran
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
6,371 Reviews
Kieran Ball
Hello, bonjour, hola, hallo, ciao and olá!
I’m Kieran and I’m a language tutor based in the UK, and I also create online courses and write books to make language learning accessible to all.
My books and online courses are based on the method I developed for teaching languages, which I've been using in all my classes for many years. The method will get you speaking quickly, without the struggle normally associated with language learning.
I have created three series of language courses available in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. They're called: '3 Minute Languages', 'Building Structures' and 'Quick Guides'.
I hope you enjoy, and "Happy Learning" :-)
Kieran
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Reviews
By Dipta Dhar on 6/19/2020
It is one of the best teaching methods I have seen so far. I believe if anyone wants to learn German fast, then this will be the best course to take. He delivered the course very smoothly and helped to learn so many things in a short amount of time. Thank you so much, Mr. Kieran Ball, for this amazing course. Highly Recommended!!!
By Graziela Cristina Brandão on 6/4/2020
Algumas coisas precisam ser atualizadas. Por exemplo, quando o instrutor diz a tradução em inglês, ele diz "it's" e aparece escrito "it is". É um erro banal. Há uma das aulas onde em um exercício de tradução, a tradução aparece já quando ele começa a ler a frase no outro idioma.
By Waqas Ali Naqvi on 10/12/2019
Since I am a beginner therefore the course was useful for me. I enjoyed making the sentences with the instructor. The instructor makes sure that we are regularly repeating what we learned in the previous lessons and this is done very professionally. Although the instructor says for 3 minutes practice everyday but when i enrolled i enjoyed so much so that i finished the whole course in one go :)
By Yvonne Nyongo on 9/14/2019
I visited Germany 1 month ago and the language was so hard it gave me goose bumps when someone spoke it. When I cam back to the US, I took a challenge to learn basic German before my next visit to Germany. I am so glad I found this course. German is no longer rocket science to me...lol
By Sachin Kumar Mehta on 8/12/2018
Well it was my 1st german language course and I enjoyed and learned each and every bit. I congratulate the instructor to put very understanding and pefect pace of lessons which I picked up well. Thanks for this fantastic course and I recommend this course to every beginner. Danke !!
By Nabeel Ahmad on 8/5/2018
Everything was good, delivered well. But the exercises were less i.e there were many many revision exercises that wasn't necessary because for revision we can always go back to the previous lessons. So in that place there could be some more vocabulary an knowledge. That would have make it better. But overall sehr danke for teaching this in free!
By Paul Brown on 5/25/2018
I had a wonderful experience with this course. It reminded me of the time that I lived in Germany. I liked how the course was structured. It was just like riding a bike. Even If I did not know any German at all, I would have easily picked it up with this wonderful technique. The Instructor was very thorough and taught the course very well in my opinion. Keep up the Great work. Paul B.
By George M Koller on 1/12/2018
Es ist ganz fantantisch. I think a very effective means to drill basics of a new language with minimum, largely extraneous factors. Very curious how far it can be taken before considerations of grammar must be introduced... I am thinking of eventually implementing a course for a certain visual language and this technique may be appropriate. In any case it feels good to find myself saying things in German after many years of listening and reading with almost no reason/excuse to speak or write.
By Burnis Brummitt on 8/14/2016
This course was interesting and laid out well. I understand that this course is very much a introductory course and therefore should be regarded as such but the course begins with words and phrases instead of beginning with the alphabet and basic grammar. Overall the course was well versed and the instructor was knowledgeable in terms of teaching the course and language skills.
By Anonymized User on 8/6/2016
These short lessons are an ok introduction to the German language for beginners. The vocabulary is repeated several times throughout the course, to help students remember it. The slides used are very basic and nothing fancy, but they serve their purpose well enough. It is a free course, so one can't complain.
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