Real-life packs
Bureaucracy & formal life
Applications, forms, deadlines, official letters and the register they demand.
Start mixed practice
15 questions from B1
25 exercises here · 16 recordings unheard
Useful vocabulary
- Bescheid sagen to let someone know
- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Kind regards (formal sign-off)
- Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren Dear Sir or Madam
- Bescheid geben to let someone know
- das Formular form
- der Antrag application
- sich wenden an to contact, to turn to
- mitteilen to inform, to let know
- die Rückerstattung refund
- der Betrag amount, sum
- kurzfristig at short notice, soon
- die Bearbeitung processing
Useful collocations
- Bescheid sagento let someone know
- einen Antrag stellento submit an application
Writing practice
- Write a formal complaintB1 · Complaint
- Write a follow-up emailB1 · Email
- Write a workplace request to your managerB1 · Formal writing
All bureaucracy & formal life writing tasks
Self-check writing is never scored, so it stays out of the practice sitting above.