About This Book

Fokus Deutsch B2. Erfolgreich im Alltag und im Beruf Kurs- und Übungsbuch mit AudiZ is a German coursebook-and-workbook in one volume for the B2 level, aimed — as its subtitle declares — at success in everyday life and in professional life, with audio. The Fokus Deutsch name promises focus itself: at B2 the syllabus is no longer the language’s basics but its deployment, and a combined volume serves that stage exactly, presenting and practising in the same binding.

B2 is the working level of the Common European Framework: the point where a speaker can argue, narrate, negotiate and cope — in the office as in the street — with independence if not yet with elegance. Courses for it are built differently from beginners’ books: less presentation, more consolidation; less vocabulary from wordlists, more from situations; and a constant orientation toward the two domains the subtitle names, Alltag and Beruf, which at this level interpenetrate — the same German signs the contract and argues with the landlord. The Kurs- und Übungsbuch format collapses the old two-book journey into one desk object: learn it here, drill it here, carry both.

What Learners Will Practise

Everyday German Under Pressure

Learners practise the Alltag at B2 standard: appointments made and disputed, services negotiated, opinions defended with neighbours, officials and friends. The practise assumes the basics and trains their reliability — the right register found quickly, the misunderstanding repaired without panic — because everyday life at B2 is an examination that never announces itself.

Professional German

The Beruf half trains work’s genres: the meeting survived and contributed to, the email composed in the right tone, the telephone call whose other end cannot be seen. Learners practise German as a career instrument — precise where work is precise, diplomatic where work is human — the register in which promotions quietly happen.

Listening at Threshold Speed

The volume’s audio trains the ear at B2’s natural pace: announcements, conversations and workplace talk caught whole rather than word by word. Learners practise listening as the working skill it is at this level — half of every real interaction — until comprehension keeps up with the speed at which German life actually speaks.

Key Features

The dual-domain subtitle is the feature: Alltag und Beruf, one German for both theatres, at the level where they merge. The combined Kurs- und Übungsbuch format is the second — presentation and consolidation in a single volume — and the carried audio the third, listening built into the course rather than borrowed from elsewhere. In this collection it is the German shelf’s threshold book: where learners stop studying the language and start being equipped by it.

Who This Book Is For

B2 learners with purposes are its first readers — anyone whose German must soon function at work or in official life. Employees and applicants in German-speaking workplaces form its second readership, for whom B2 is a line in a job description. The self-consolidating make its third: learners who ‘know’ German at B1-plus and need it made reliable, in one volume, before the threshold is tested.

How to Use This Book

Work it in its own order, coursebook and workbook as one rhythm: presentation, then consolidation, before the next unit spends both. Use the audio daily and aloud-shadow it — at B2 the mouth must keep the ear’s pace. And test yourself against the subtitle’s promise as you go: each unit should leave one everyday scene and one workplace scene easier than it found them; that, at this level, is the only progress report that matters.

Related Books

Its own family’s newer B2 coursebook stands at Fokus Deutsch B2 Neu Kursbuch mit Online Ubungen, and the B1–B2 professional companion is Einfach besser Deutsch für den Beruf B1 B2 Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch.