If you are reading this, you probably feel like you are standing at that metaphorical train station right now. German grammar looks intimidating, the words are incredibly long, and you don’t know where to start.

That’s a quirky German idiom that literally means, “I only understand the train station.” In English, we would say, “It’s all Greek to me.”

Let’s build your first German foundation. The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) divides language into six levels. A1 is the "Breakthrough" stage.