German C1 learning path – Advanced
At C1 you express yourself fluently and spontaneously, use language flexibly for social, academic and professional purposes, and write clear, well-structured text.
What you can do at C1
- Express yourself fluently and spontaneously in social and professional settings
- Use the language flexibly for academic and professional purposes
- Write clear, well-structured, detailed texts on complex subjects
The C1 path brings together 55 vocabulary words, 15 grammar topics, 10 phrases, 2 writing tasks and 15 test questions. Work through the grammar topics in order, and use the vocabulary sets for daily practice.
Grammar topics at C1
- Complex nominal style
- Subjunctive in formal contexts
- Inversion for emphasis
- Cleft-like emphasis
- Participial constructions
- Genitive replacement with von
- Discourse connectors
- Impersonal passive
- Verb valency and case government
- Register and style
- Rhetorical devices
- Conjunctive adverbs of contrast
- Concessive structures
- Subject-less sentences
- Prepositions with dual case in figurative use