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Ausbildung in Germany
Choose a vocational-training route, check what you need, and move from the first search to an application and the correct official visa page.
Ausbildung in Germany
A clear route from choosing a training occupation to applying for a real vacancy, securing a contract, and checking the correct visa path.
Read the guide →EnglishIs B1 enough for an Ausbildung?
Separate the usual visa rule from the German your company, interview, workplace, vocational school, and final exam may demand.
Read the guide →EnglishAusbildung requirements
A condition-by-condition reference: what the company checks, what the German mission checks, and which widely repeated rules are only employer preferences.
Read the guide →EnglishApply for an Ausbildung from India
Prepare your Indian school records and German proof for a real application, then follow the official visa process after you receive a training place.
Read the guide →EnglishWhich Ausbildung should you choose?
Compare the work and training behind six fields, then use official profiles and real vacancies to choose your next two or three occupations.
Read the guide →EnglishOfficial Ausbildung websites
Which Ausbildung search sites German public bodies run, what each one does, and the fee, passport and certificate rules a paid agency has to follow.
Read the guide →EnglishWhen should you apply for an Ausbildung?
Work backwards from your training start date, check when applications open, and plan German, documents, and visa steps around real deadlines.
Read the guide →EnglishWrite your Ausbildung CV
A German Lebenslauf template with English explanations, the current rules on length and photos, and how to list school records from another country.
Read the guide →EnglishWrite your Ausbildung cover letter
A complete German Anschreiben with English explanations, and a method for turning one advert's requirements into sentences you can defend in the interview.
Read the guide →EnglishPractise for your Ausbildung interview
Build truthful German answers from your own experience, practise asking for clarification, and prepare questions for the employer.
Read the guide →Free toolAusbildung vacancy requirement matcher
Take one advert's list of requirements line by line. Pair each with something you have actually done, get a German sentence for the letter and one for the interview, and an honest next action where you have nothing yet.
Match your evidence →Free toolAusbildung occupation shortlist comparer
Put two to four training occupations side by side on length, dual or school-based, the training allowance, the school certificate, language rules and the official shortage rating, with the source under every line.
Compare occupations →Free toolAusbildung application tracker
Keep one record per application, sorted by whichever of your dates comes next, with the federal four-week follow-up rule and the next official action beside each one. Everything stays on your device.
Track your applications →Free toolAusbildung application timeline planner
Work backwards from your start month. See the broad recruitment opening window and your next official action.
Plan your application →Free toolAusbildung preparation self-check
Answer five private questions and get an ordered list of what to verify or practise next. No score or eligibility decision.
Find your next step →Germany Opportunity Card
The job-search route for people without a job offer yet, and the route the old job seeker visa search leads to: which of the two routes applies to you, what each one requires, what your points add up to, which documents your own claims need, how the online application works, and what the money side of it costs. The blocked-account guide and planner sit here too, and cover the study, training and language-course routes as well as this one.
The job seeker visa, and what replaced it
Searching for Germany's job seeker visa finds a route the law no longer has. What the Residence Act says now, why old pages keep appearing, and which route matches what you already have.
Read the guide →EnglishOpportunity Card requirements
Which of the two routes applies to you, what each one actually requires, the money and insurance conditions, and the documents a German mission asks you to upload.
Read the guide →EnglishApplying for the Opportunity Card online
Where the application is made, what the Consular Services Portal asks for, how the uploads and the preliminary review work, what happens at the embassy appointment, and what to do in your first weeks in Germany.
Read the guide →EnglishWhat the Opportunity Card costs
The money you have to show, which stays yours, and the money you actually spend on fees. Each figure with the statute, fee page or federal portal it comes from.
Read the guide →EnglishThe blocked account, by route
Six published monthly figures, not one. Which applies to your visa, why the number moves every year, and what the blocking confirmation has to say.
Read the guide →Free toolOpportunity Card points calculator
Answer the criteria from the Residence Act annex and see your score and the document each point needs. It runs in your browser and gives no visa decision.
Check your points →Free toolOpportunity Card evidence checklist
Say which route you are on and what you claim, and get the document behind each claim, the condition it has to meet, and what to do first. It scores nothing and decides nothing.
Build your document list →Free toolBlocked-account amount planner
Germany publishes a different monthly minimum for each visa route. Choose yours and the months it covers, and see the amount, the conditions attached and the official page to check it against. No provider is named.
Work out your amount →Choose your exam
What the levels A1 to C2 mean and where you stand, what level B1 asks of you, how the Goethe, telc and DTZ exams differ, which one fits your situation, how to sit a free official practice test and read your own result, and how to find a date, book it and know what it costs once you have chosen.
German levels A1 to C2 explained
The six levels in plain English, what each one lets you do, the level each visa route and exam asks for, and a short self-placement that ends with somewhere to start.
Read the guide →EnglishThe German B1 exam guide
Everything in one place: what B1 means, which exam to take for citizenship, residency, work or study, and how each is scored.
Read the guide →EnglishGoethe vs telc B1
Same level, different rules. Format, scoring and retake logic compared — and which exam fits your situation.
Read the guide →EnglishDTZ vs telc B1
Integration-course exam or regular B1 exam? The scaled DTZ result, the speaking gate, and what to train differently.
Read the guide →EnglishGerman B1 practice test
Where the free official practice tests are, how to sit one under exam timing, how to mark it with the published point rules, and which guide each weak section sends you to.
Read the guide →EnglishDTZ practice test results
Which official DTZ model set is current, what the answer key can and cannot tell you, how the A2 and B1 bands work per part, and what to practise next.
Read the guide →EnglishB1 exam dates and fees
Where each provider publishes its dates, what a B1 sitting costs in Germany, India and Türkiye, how far ahead the booking window opens and closes, what to carry on the day, and how long the result takes.
Read the guide →Vocabulary and the letter task
How to build a B1 vocabulary that sticks, the letter templates that cover every writing task, and a planner for the task in front of you.
B1 vocabulary, done right
The topic areas every B1 exam draws from, why frequency beats textbook order, and how to actually retain 2,000 words.
Read the guide →EnglishThe 5 B1 Letter Templates
Five reusable letter templates that cover every B1 letter task — with ready-made phrases, model letters, and the mistakes that cost points.
Read the guide →DeutschB1 Brief schreiben
Die 5 Brief-Baupläne für jede Schreibaufgabe: Redemittel, Musterbriefe und die Fehler, die dich Punkte kosten.
Weiterlesen →Free toolB1 letter planner and task-point checklist
Plan the writing task in front of you before you write it: every content point your exam requires, the published length and time, and the German salutation and closing that belong together. Your lines stay on your device.
Plan your letter →Exam strategy and practice
One guide per exam part, and the tools that run a practice set under real timing, read your section scores, and put your practice in order.
Read for evidence in the German B1 exam
A three-pass reading method, one reduced ad-matching example, and a check that stops shared keywords from choosing the wrong answer.
Read the guide →EnglishListen for the answer in the German B1 exam
A five-step listening method, the play-count differences between Goethe, telc, and DTZ, and one worked announcement.
Read the guide →EnglishPlan something together in German
A compact speaking structure and eight useful phrases for the shared planning task in Goethe, telc, and DTZ.
Read the guide →EnglishRepair a German B1 speaking exchange
Three short phrases and a two-part repair method for moments when you do not hear, understand, or remember what comes next.
Read the guide →EnglishSolve telc B1 Sprachbausteine by category
A category-first method for the two Sprachbausteine parts, with four worked gaps.
Read the guide →Free toolB1 exam practice planner
Sat a model test? Say how each section went and get an ordered practice plan built from your exam's published point weights. No score, no pass prediction.
Put your practice in order →Free toolB1 exam result calculator
Enter your Goethe, telc or DTZ section scores and see what each provider's published rule says about them, with the margin per section. It issues no official result.
Check your points →Free toolTimed B1 mock exam runner
Sit a free official practice set the way the exam runs it: the published order, the clock on each module, the break rule, and how often each listening part plays.
Run it under the real timing →Free toolB1 speaking exam practice
Rehearse one part of the Goethe, telc or DTZ oral exam: draw a prompt, sit the published preparation time, speak for the published time, then check what the task actually required. No recording, no score.
Rehearse one part →The grammar path
20 guides in the order a learner meets them — from your first conversation to the passive. Start where you are and work down.
Stage 1 · Beginner (A1)
First sentences
Introduce yourself, learn nouns the right way, and meet the first case change.
Stage 2 · Elementary (A2)
Building real sentences
Modal verbs, flexible word order, the Perfekt past, and your first subordinate clauses.
Stage 3 · Intermediate (B1)
The B1 step
Comparisons, polite requests, contrast, the passive, and the future tense.
Tools for the path
Practise the pieces
German numbers, prices, dates and times
Type any number, price, clock time or date and see how a German speaker writes it and says it, with the rule behind each piece. Draw one to say out loud before you see the answer. Nothing you type is saved.
Say it in German →Free toolder, die, das ending checker
Type a German noun and see which of the course's ending rules it triggers, the article that rule predicts, how often that rule is right, and the course words it gets wrong. Most nouns have no rule, and it says so.
Check an ending →Free toolGerman verb conjugator for B1
Look up one of the verbs the course teaches and see its present tense with the vowel change marked, its Perfekt with haben or sein, where the prefix goes in a sentence, and the guide that teaches that pattern. Only the past forms B1 asks you to write.
Conjugate a verb →The course behind the guides
B1 Atlas is a complete self-study course from zero German to the Goethe-Zertifikat B1 or telc Deutsch B1. It is in production and not yet on sale. Joining the waitlist costs an email address; the launch date, the launch offer and the free B1 letter-writing cheat sheet (PDF) arrive when the course is ready, not instantly. A few emails around launch — unsubscribe anytime. The guides above stay free either way.
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