I’m at the level where I must start forming sentences. The best exercise I’ve found for this is roleplay. So let’s make a forum game out of this!!

In character roleplay will be done in German only. Meta-discussion (rules questions, edits, takebacks…) will be done in English only.

Rules:

1. No AI, make sentences of your own accord. Correct other people’s mistakes with your own effort.

2. Set the topic to sort-by-new. Try to work off the most recent post.

3. Reply in a thread if you think someone else made a grammar mistake, explain the mistake in English so that we know it is 'out of character’s. If making a correction post, please include your rough level (A0, A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, or native).

4. Wait for either 24 hours before replying to yourself (as the other character), or wait for some human to respond. IE: if two people are logged in at the same time, feel free to keep roleplaying with each other in German.

5. You may play both roles, as long as you aren’t repeatably responding to yourself. (24 hour delay before responding to yourself as per rule #4).

6. Try to keep the roleplay words to the level of the topic. If A1 is too easy, make a new topic aiming for a higher level.

7. Start every roleplay with a character name, making it clear ‘who is talking’.

Roleplay situation: Alice has just called Hanz, and Hanz has picked up the phone. Alice wants to invite Hanz and hang out over the weekend. Try to figure out the time and schedule of each other in German.

I’ll start with

Hanz:Hallo. Ich bin Hanz.