Learning German: A Journey through Language and Culture
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30.
Our Journey: The End or Just the Beginning?
2019-11-08
Finish with a series of unaided dialogues of increasing difficulty, covering grammar you have studied in the series. You'll be surprised at how much you understand!
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Eine Reise nach Wittenberg und Berlin
2019-11-08
Dig deeper into the subjunctive by learning to express hypotheticals in the past tense. The dialogue takes you through eastern Germany via the famous Autobahn: first to Wittenberg, site of Martin Luther's historic challenge to the Catholic Church, and then on to Berlin, where you survey some of the many monuments and museums, including sites commemorating the Berlin Wall and the Holocaust.
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28.
The Subjunctive Mood
2019-11-08
So far, you have been using mostly the indicative mood (the verbal form used to express reality and facts) with a brief foray into the imperative mood used to express commands. Now, learn the mood for expressing contrary-to-fact or hypothetical situations: the subjunctive.
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The Genitive Case and the Passive Voice
2019-11-08
Practice your first joke in German. Then meet the fourth and final German case (the genitive), completing your study of the case system.
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26.
Comparative/Superlative and Adjective Endings
2019-11-08
Professor Pfrehm introduces his three favorite German-language movies (a war film, a spy drama, and a sci-fi thriller) giving tips on the best way to watch them to improve your German comprehension, all while being entertained! His goal is not film criticism, but rather teaching you how to construct comparative and superlative sentences.
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25.
Two-Way Prepositions and Verbs That Use Theme
2019-11-08
So far, you have studied prepositions that take the dative case (bei, mit, von, etc.) or the accusative (durch, bis, für, etc.
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24.
Eine Reise nach Hamburg und Cuxhaven
2019-11-08
Travel to two more intriguing destinations in the German-speaking world: the bustling German port of Hamburg and the quaint seaside town of Cuxhaven. Hear about die Wattwanderung, a remarkable walk across an extensive mudflat near Cuxhaven.
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23.
More Simple Past and Relative Pronouns
2019-11-08
Reach the exciting conclusion of the fairy tale from the previous episode, while finishing your exploration of the simple past. Then turn to vocabulary for professions and the workplace, using it to construct sentences that present a new grammatical element: relative pronouns.
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22.
Bäuerin Bärbel und die rotbärtigen Zwerge
2019-11-08
Enter the world of fantasy with a Märchen (fairy tale) designed especially for this series to present verbs in the simple past tense. Featuring a widow in distress, strange men with red beards, and a gruesome plot twist, the story is so thrilling that the seven classes of simple past endings for strong verbs, plus the much less complicated paradigms for weak verbs, will go down like candy.
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21.
The Simple Past
2019-11-08
Delve into the checkered past of Professor Pfrehm as you learn about the simple past. This tense is different in form from the present perfect you learned earlier, but its meaning is the same, though it is mostly used in formal writing.
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More Dative and Subordinating Conjunctions
2019-11-08
Continue your study of reflexive verbs and pronouns by looking at constructions that require the pronoun in the dative case. One example is the useful sentence Das ist mir egal (I don't care).
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Reflexive Verbs and Pronouns
2019-11-08
Learn parts of the human body from two unusual experts: male and female Schaufensterpuppen (mannequins). Then, visit a German doctor in a dialogue that introduces reflexive verbs and pronouns.
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18.
Eine Reise nach Zürich und Zermatt
2019-11-08
Visit two attractions in German-speaking Switzerland: the charming city Zürich and the Alpine resort Zermatt. Featuring a chocolate factory and other delights, the dialogue brings up the dative forms of possessive pronouns, which follow the pattern of ein-words.
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17.
More Infinitive Clauses and the Dative Case
2019-11-08
Sankt Nikolaus (Father Christmas) sings a holiday song and introduces the useful dependent clause, um...zu + infinitive.
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16.
Subordinate and Infinitive Clauses
2019-11-08
Meet two German superstars (singers Herbert Grönemeyer and Annemarie Eilfeld) in a dialogue that covers subordinate and infinitive clauses. Together with indirect questions, which are formed just like subordinate clauses, these constructions take your German fluency to a new level.
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15.
Separable-Prefix Verbs
2019-11-08
Open with a tutorial on the refuse recycling system in Germany, leading to final pointers on the present perfect, which for native speakers is the most widely used tense for expressing past events in everyday speech. Then tackle another widely used grammatical feature, separable-prefix verbs, seeing how they fit into the Word Position Model introduced in Lesson 10.
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14.
Ich hab' mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren
2019-11-08
Via a love story, encounter irregular strong verbs in the present perfect tense. Along the way, find out where the terms weak and strong come from (hint: the same scholar who compiled a famous collection of German fairy tales).
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13.
Present Perfect and da- and wo- Compounds
2019-11-08
Learn to form compounds with da- and wo- plus a preposition, as in dahin (to there) and wohin (to where?).
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12.
Eine Reise nach München und Rothenburg ob der Tauber
2019-11-08
Prost! Open with toasting customs at Oktoberfest in München (Munich). Your visit to this vibrant city and to charming Rothenburg ob der Tauber introduce you to stem-vowel changing irregular verbs: those verbs that undergo a simple vowel change in the present tense, second-person familiar, and third-person forms. These verbs are generally so common that the irregular forms are quickly memorized.
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11.
Modal Verbs and More Accusative
2019-11-08
Use the public service messages on German Bierdeckeln (beer coasters) to launch into modal verbs: a two-part verb construction that expresses desire, necessity, or possibility, as in Ich möchte Deutsch lernen (I would like to learn German). Review the months, seasons, and days of the week.
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10.
Coordinating Conjunctions and der- Words
2019-11-08
Coordinating conjunctions (such as aber, denn, oder, sondern, and und) allow you to link two dependent clauses in expressive ways. Get the hang of these simple words that let you say complex things.
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9.
Time in German and Possessive Pronouns
2019-11-08
Wie viel Uhr ist es? (What time is it?) Learn to tell time and how to read a railway timetable. Rehearse using the prepositions um, von, and bis in a temporal context. Also discover that German has three distinct words that cover our English term, "time." Then dive into possessive pronouns-in singular and plural, as well as nominative and accusative-picking up new vocabulary along the way.
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8.
The Nominative and Accusative Cases and kein-
2019-11-08
Plunge into German's grammatical case system, covering the nominative and accusative cases, which correspond to the subject and direct object. View a declension table of nominative and accusative endings for articles, and practice them in a tour of a typical house, learning household words.
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7.
Asking Questions and Numbers above 100
2019-11-08
Start with another satisfying Zungenbrecher. Then get acquainted with the different ways of asking both open-ended and close-ended questions.
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6.
Eine Reise nach Wien und Salzburg
2019-11-08
Travel to two cities in Austria, Vienna (called Wien) and Salzburg, to practice your fundamental skills in German. Learn useful expressions for giving directions.
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5.
Indefinite Articles and Numbers to 100
2019-11-08
Indulge your appetite for German by learning the protocol for ordering drinks in a pub and treats in a bakery. Dip into the relevant vocabulary, focusing on the indefinite articles and the numbers from 0 to 100, which are pleasingly like numbers in English.
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4.
Regular Verbs in the Present Tense
2019-11-08
Begin with the greeting, Wie geht's? (more formally, Wie geht es Ihnen?) Rehearse responses, such as, Es geht mir gut and Es geht mir Ausgezeichnet. Practice conjugating present-tense regular verbs, and discover the wonderful utility of the indefinite pronoun man. Finally, learn the German names and nationalities for European countries. Along the way, encounter a new sound: the a-umlaut, ä.
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3.
Personal Pronouns and the Verb sein
2019-11-08
Warm up with Zungenbrecher (literally, "tongue-breakers"). These are phrases that add fun to learning German pronunciation.
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2.
Definite Articles, Gender, and Nouns
2019-11-07
Meet German's three definite articles (der, die, and das) which correspond to masculine, feminine, and neuter grammatical genders. Get tips on how to predict the gender of nouns.
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1.
Willkommen!
2019-11-07
Guten Tag! Your first lesson in German introduces you to useful expressions and some of the distinctive sounds of the language.
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