Improve your German for the WC

Kidstardust

Kidstardust

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First Lesson: Greeting and Adoption
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Hello Hallo

Goodbye Auf Wiedersehen

More to come. It could be funny if anyone try this words and make a video :).
More on the Weekend....
 
Well I know a little bit of German:

Good morning = guten Tag
Good evening = guten Abend
Good night = guten nacht
Enjoy your meal! = guten appetite
Please = bitte
Thanks = danke
Thanks very much = vielen dank
Your welcome = bitte sehr

How are you? = Wie geht's?
How much does it cost? = Wie macht das viel?
Where is...? = Wo ist...?

Well I don't know anything else XD, whether I'm wrong please correct me, I won't come but I would like learning Deustch (german) too.
 
@rubixfreak, that video is kinda funny. I like the part "vergessen Sie 'der, die, das,' es gibt nur 'den' "

I hated it in Budapest where I would speak a correctly formulated German sentence, but use the wrong article with a noun :-S

Macht dieses Video nur Lust? Oder spricht manche oder viele Leute wirklich so?

Chris
 
Gabriel said:
Well I know a little bit of German:

Good morning = guten Tag
Good evening = guten Abend
Good night = guten nacht gute Nacht, without the "n"
Enjoy your meal! = guten appetite Its actually Appetit, but it sounds the same:D
Please = bitte
Thanks = danke
Thanks very much = vielen dank
Your welcome = bitte sehr

How are you? = Wie geht's?
How much does it cost? = Wie macht das viel? You just mixed the words, its "Wie viel macht das?" or "Wie viel kostet das?"
Where is...? = Wo ist...?

Well I don't know anything else XD, whether I'm wrong please correct me, I won't come but I would like learning Deustch (german) too.
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Ok, a lot of things are correct, but I corrected the things which were wrong ;).
I think with these phrases you can "survive" in Germany...

cmhardw said:
Macht dieses Video nur Lust? Oder spricht manche oder viele Leute wirklich so?Chris
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I think its some comedy stuff, but a few people really speak like that. Of course its way too much in this video!

Its actually "macht sich dieses Video nur Lustig" ...
(If you want to be even more correct, a video can't make fun of sth., thats a thing only people could do, but never mind!)

Your teacher, Alex :D:D
 
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cmhardw said:
@rubixfreak, that video is kinda funny. I like the part "vergessen Sie 'der, die, das,' es gibt nur 'den' "

I hated it in Budapest where I would speak a correctly formulated German sentence, but use the wrong article with a noun :-S

Macht dieses Video nur Lust? Oder spricht manche oder viele Leute wirklich so?

Chris
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Viele Leute sprechen so, vor allem in Nordrheinwestfalen. ;-)
 
NRW FTW :P
When to use the different der/des/den/dem/die/das are really hard to understand. I mostly just guess or say it a bit mumbling so I just say 'de', I even made a sentence once in which my girlfriend was masculine... In Dutch (only 2) and English (only 1 'the') it's easier ;)
Some very handy stuff:

Wie bitte? = a sign that you didn't understand what the person said, they'll repeat it again if you say this.

Sprechen Sie Englisch/Sprechst du Englisch? = do you (polite) speak English/do you (informal) speak English? Most young people wouldn't mind if you say 'du' but just to be safe say 'Sie'

Wo sind hier die Toilette? = Where are the toilets here?

Ich lös mein Zauberwürfel ganz schnell! = I solve my Rubik's cube very fast :P

Alter! = Dude!

Verdammt! = Damned!

Ich hab kein Duden dabei, den brauch ich nicht = I don't have a dictionary, I don't need it.

Halts maul, pack dein Rucksack und geh mit nach Schwimmbad! = shut up, pack your bag and go with me/us to the swimming pool! :D

Ein großes Bier bitte! = a large beer please (you don't need to know the small or medium ones ;) )

Egal = it doesn't matter/ whatever
 
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Erik said:
NRW FTW :P
When to use the different der/des/den/dem/die/das are really hard to understand. I mostly just guess or say it a bit mumbling so I just say 'de', I even made a sentence once in which my girlfriend was masculine... In Dutch (only 2) and English (only 1 'the') it's easier ;)
Some very handy stuff:

Wie bitte? = a sign that you didn't understand what the person said, they'll repeat it again if you say this.

Sprechen Sie Englisch/Sprechst du Englisch? = do you (polite) speak English/do you (informal) speak English? Most young people wouldn't mind if you say 'du' but just to be safe say 'Sie'

Wo sind hier die Toilette? = Where are the toilets here?

Ich lös mein Zauberwürfel ganz schnell! = I solve my Rubik's cube very fast :P

Alter! = Dude!

Verdammt! = Damned!

Ich hab kein Duden dabei, den brauch ich nicht = I don't have a dictionary, I don't need it.

Halts maul, pack dein Rucksack und geh mit nach Schwimmbad! = shut up, pack your bag and go with me/us to the swimming pool! :D

Ein großes Bier bitte! = a large beer please (you don't need to know the small or medium ones ;) )

Egal = it doesn't matter/ whatever
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That would be a great phrase to go along with my only spanish phrase:
Let's go to the beach of death. (I don't know how to spell it, just how to say it) :)
 
cmhardw said:
@rubixfreak, that video is kinda funny. I like the part "vergessen Sie 'der, die, das,' es gibt nur 'den' "
Macht dieses Video nur Lust? Oder spricht manche oder viele Leute wirklich so?
Chris
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This video is more for fun, but there are several people who speak this way. Its kind of a german slang or idiom.

GERMAN GRAMMER TUTORIAL PART 1:

I = ich
you = du
he/she/it = er/sie/es
we = wir
they = ihr
you = sie

HOW TO CONJUGATE:

lets take a verb : schwimmen (=to swim)

ich schwimme
du schwimmst
er/sie/es schwimmt
wir schwimmen
ihr schwimmt
sie schwimmen
 
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Erik said:
NRW FTW :P

Ich löse meinen Zauberwürfel ganz schnell! = I solve my Rubik's cube very fast :P

Halts maul, pack deinen Rucksack und [geh] kommmit [nach] zum /insSchwimmbad! = shut up, pack your bag and go with me/us to the swimming pool! :D
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very usefull phrase btw :)
 
How to talk about cubes:

I like your cube. "Ich mag deinen Würfel."

I would like to buy or trade your cube. "Ich würde gerne deinen Würfel kaufen oder tauschen."

I can barely turn your cube! "Ich kann deinen Würfel kaum drehen!"

I love PLL skips. "Ich liebe PLL-Skips."

I carefully applied every single Cubesmith sticker to this DIY. "Ich habe jeden einzelnen Cubesmith Sticker vorsichtig auf diesen DIY aufgeklebt."

Your Stackmat timer has more craters than the moon! "Dein Stackmat Timer hat mehr Krater als der Mond!"
 
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