Lodestar Europe German Training Academy
Learn German from Germans. Not from someone who learned it.
Every one of your fifty live hours is taught by a native German speaker living in Germany. Six months, 100+ exercise sheets, one fixed fee, no upsells.
₹34,500 all-inclusive · 60 live hours · 6 months · 111 Exercise Workbooks
The Framework
The change we bring, the Impact we create
60
Hours of live class, every one with a native teacher
111
Exercise sheets to work through between sessions
6 Month
Long journey, starting from complete scratch
0
Recorded lectures — every session is live
Your training in Numbers
Program
German A1 Complete + A2 Foundation
Live classes
60 hours, every hour with a native German teacher
Guided practice
~190 hours through the Lodestar workbook portal
Total learning
Approx. 250 hours
Duration
6 months
Weekly commitment
2.5 hours live, 7–8 hours practice
Price
₹35,000, inclusive of GST and Lodestar portal
Already a member?
₹20,500 for Lodestar Europe Members
Cohort size
Maximum 25
Why we only teach with native Germans
Most German courses available in India are taught by Indian instructors who learned the language themselves, often to B1 or B2. They are frequently excellent at explaining grammar, because they remember what it was like to find it difficult. What they cannot give you is the thing you will need on your first day in Munich: the speed, the contractions, the regional colour, and the instinct for what sounds natural rather than merely correct.
Ear before grammar
You spend six months listening to native pronunciation and rhythm. Students who learn from non-native speakers often understand written German well and then freeze when a real conversation starts.
The language people actually use
Textbook German and spoken German diverged a long time ago. Your teacher will tell you which is which, which no textbook can do for you.
Correction that goes past correct
"That is right, but no German would say it." That single sentence, repeated over fifty hours, is most of what separates a confident speaker from a careful one.
What ₹34,500 actually buys
Sixty hours of live class with a native German teacher
Roughly 2.5 hours a week across six months, scheduled in the evening for Indian time zones. Live means live: you speak, you get corrected, you ask the question that is bothering you.
A workbook portal that marks itself
Grammar, vocabulary, listening and reading exercises released week by week, graded the moment you submit. You find out what you got wrong immediately rather than next Tuesday.
Weekly writing, marked by your teacher
One short written submission a week, returned with a person's corrections on it. This is the part no software can do, so we do not pretend otherwise.
Speaking practice in small breakout groups
Every session includes paired and small-group speaking time, so class size never becomes an excuse for staying silent.
A cohort going through it with you
You start and finish with the same group. Most people who quit a language course quit alone, in month two, with nobody noticing.
Our Weekly Curriculum Agenda
Grammatik
1.5-2 hours
The week's grammar taught in writing, not merely drilled. Each module contains:
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A written explanation in plain English, moving progressively into German across the six months
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Full conjugation, case or ending tables
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Six to ten worked examples, annotated to show why each form is what it is
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A contrast section: the mistake Indian learners characteristically make with this point, and why
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A one-page reference sheet that stays in your library permanently
Twenty-four grammar modules across the course. By month six a student has a complete written grammar of A1 and A2 — in their own account, searchable, kept for good.
Übungsstufen
~2 hours
Practice in three ascending tiers, all auto-graded with instant feedback:
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Erkennen — recognition. Choose the right form, spot the error.
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Anwenden — application. Gap-fills, transformations, sentence reordering.
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Produzieren — production. Build the sentence yourself from a prompt.
Most courses stop at the first two tiers because they are easy to auto-grade. The third is where grammar becomes usable, so it is where the volume sits here.
Hörlabor
~1 hour
Native audio recorded by your teaching team, not stock recordings. Each week: two listening passages at natural speed with comprehension questions, and the same passages with transcripts for a second, slower pass. Later months use authentic material — station announcements, voicemail, short news items.
Sprechlabor
~1.5 hour
Speaking practice you do alone, structured so it is not merely talking to yourself:
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Nachsprechen — shadowing. Native audio, you repeat, you record, you compare. This is how accent and rhythm are actually built, and it cannot be done in a group class.
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Aufgabe der Woche — a two-minute recorded speaking task, submitted. Your teacher listens to a selection each week and returns spoken corrections.
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Aussprachefokus — one sound per week that Indian speakers of German typically struggle with, isolated and drilled.
Wortschatz
~1.5 hour
Spaced-repetition vocabulary, fifteen minutes across five days rather than an hour in one sitting. Roughly 50 new words a week, approximately 1200 across the course. Words arrive with a sentence in context and its audio, never as a bare list.
Schreiben
~1 hour
One short written task each week, submitted and marked by your teacher with corrections written on it. Twenty-four marked submissions across the course. This is the only component no software touches.
