C2
German C2: Near-native
C2 does not mean sounding like a native speaker. It means the language no longer stands between you and the thought: whatever you want to say can be said, and said in exactly that way.
What is left is fine work — collocations, idioms, levels of style, the differences between the big regional varieties, and the knack of pulling several sources into one short, accurate summary.
Cases, nouns and articles1
Adjectives
1Word lists at level C2
Lists: 245 · words: 8425
- Rhetoric and figures of speech
- Inference and fallacy
- Weighing and qualifying
- Shipbuilding
- Degrees and shades
- Contract and official German
- Anaesthesia
- Drive engineering
- Occupational medicine
- Archaeology and excavation
- Architecture and building history
- Archives and records
- Astrophysics
- Lift engineering
- Railway operations
- Banking supervision
- Batteries and energy storage
- Building law: planning, permits, defects
- Mining law and mineral extraction
- Running a library
- Biochemistry
- Soil science
- The stock exchange and securities
- Fire protection in buildings
Reading texts at level C2
- Das Unübersetzbare
- Die Kunst des Streichens
- Lob des Zweifels
- Die Höflichkeit der Umwege
- Was zwischen den Sprachen bleibt
- Die Fußnote
- Das Haus am Ende der Straße
- Ein Ergebnis, das keines ist
- Über das Älterwerden
- Der Lesekreis und das Ende
- Absage mit Dank
Sentences from this level’s topics
Die im letzten Jahr eröffnete Bibliothek ist sehr beliebt.The library that opened last year is very popular.