German Study Session / Deutsche Lerngruppe

Bring your grammar books or any other study materials and enjoy the benefits of body doubling, social camaraderie, and shared brain power. These study sessions will be unstructured, but will be focused on each of us learning our own materials at our own pace. We will start with brief introductions and what we want to learn today. Then we will study for about 60-90 minutes. At the end we will have time for chit-chat, getting to know each other, or just generally talking about how our studies went.

This meetup is part study-group, part conversation club for German learners. The meetup is targeted towards people roughly at A2 to B1 in the CFER scale, but that's not a hard rule: Generally if you can speak a little German but still feel uncomfortable in real-time conversations, you are welcome here.

Some Ground Rules:
Language Immersion - Our goal is to speak German, right? So, to the best of our ability, we will speak only in German. If we aren’t sure how to express ourselves, we can use visual aids like an image or a drawing. We can use German dictionaries or sites like [Verbformen.de](http://verbformen.de) to self-correct our grammar, or we can do our best to get our main idea expressed in a different or creative way.

The goal is to do our very best to avoid relying on English (or AI translations) as a crutch. That said, this group is not intended for advanced speakers, so once we’ve made a good faith effort to stay in German, English as a last result is okay.

Safe Space to Speak - Speaking with real people in a language you’re still learning can be stressful. All of us will make grammar mistakes, will forget our words, or say something silly. It's okay! So please be kind: don’t poke fun at people and don’t discourage people. It is a good idea to ask someone if they are open to receiving corrections before just correcting them. If you do give corrections, be gentle about it.

Kindness and Respect - Rudeness, disrespectful behavior, bigotry and hatefulness will not be tolerated. Please note this group is also explicitly LGBT+ friendly.

Keep it Light - Let’s avoid stressful or controversial topics and lets be sensitive if someone says a topic is uncomfortable or potentially triggering for them