Greetings in German | Coffee Break German Podcast S1E01 — Transcript

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1. 0:00coffee break german lesson one
2. 0:07[Music]
3. 0:12hello my name is mark hello and my name
4. 0:15is thomas
5. 0:16and welcome to coffee break german this
6. 0:19is the first in our new series which
7. 0:21will help you learn german step by step
8. 0:24with us
9. 0:26now you may already be familiar with
10. 0:28coffee break french or coffee break
11. 0:30spanish and we're delighted to add
12. 0:32german to a range of coffee break
13. 0:34languages
14. 0:36now if you've listened to coffee break
15. 0:37french or spanish then you'll know that
16. 0:40my role in those shows was to teach anna
17. 0:44or kara and also to teach our listeners
18. 0:47but in this program i'm going to be
19. 0:49taking on a different role because my
20. 0:52german isn't very good at all i can
21. 0:54manage a few words but not very much so
22. 0:57for that reason i brought along thomas
23. 0:59and thomas is a native german speaker
24. 1:02and he's going to be helping me and you
25. 1:04learn german together
26. 1:06so tomas can you introduce yourself
27. 1:08please and let all our listeners know
28. 1:10who you are and where you come from as i
29. 1:13said my name is thomas i come from the
30. 1:15south of germany from bavaria
31. 1:18and i'm currently studying in innsbruck
32. 1:20which is in austria and doing my
33. 1:22master's in geography in natural hazards
34. 1:25okay
35. 1:26and we have asked you to help us out
36. 1:29with coffee break german as a native
37. 1:31german speaker you're obviously going to
38. 1:33be bringing that authentic element to
39. 1:35our course and you are going to be
40. 1:37helping me improve my german over the
41. 1:39course of these lessons yes i am a
42. 1:42native speaker and i speak german every
43. 1:44day and i hope that i can teach you
44. 1:46german and all the listeners are able to
45. 1:49speak perfect german at the end of the
46. 1:51course excellent i guess then we should
47. 1:53really get started with this first
48. 1:55lesson so mark mr fatigue are you ready
49. 1:58i am indeed done
50. 2:01[Music]
51. 2:07so before we go any further you've
52. 2:09already asked me a german question
53. 2:11thomas you asked me am i ready can you
54. 2:13repeat that question for me
55. 2:15it's too fatic
56. 2:17once more it's too fatic
57. 2:20now as thomas says german phrases then i
58. 2:24will try to repeat the german phrases
59. 2:26and my rather bad german accent
60. 2:28and hopefully other listeners will also
61. 2:30be repeating along with me let's hear
62. 2:33the question one more time
63. 2:41and that means are you ready
64. 2:43now does each word mean
65. 2:45the same in the same order there so bist
66. 2:48does that
67. 2:59are you ready and how would i answer
68. 3:00that question
69. 3:02if i want to say yes i'm ready
70. 3:05yeah
71. 3:06yeah okay so i i already know that so
72. 3:08that's yeah for yes and if i were to say
73. 3:13no what would i say i would say 9
74. 3:17nine
75. 3:18yes so like the number nine in english
76. 3:21almost yeah it sounds the same so let's
77. 3:23get into uh our rhythm of repeating
78. 3:25these words so that our listeners can
79. 3:27repeat along you say the word first then
80. 3:29i'll repeat it and then you say it again
81. 3:31so that the last thing your listeners
82. 3:33hear is your correct pronunciation okay
83. 3:35does that seem okay yes excellent so
84. 3:38let's go with yes
85. 3:39yeah yeah
86. 3:41yeah
87. 3:43and no
88. 3:44nine nine
89. 3:47nine
90. 3:49okay and let's just come back to that
91. 3:50question are you ready
92. 3:53bistophetic
93. 3:55bistro fatigue
94. 3:56is
95. 4:00let's learn some more german we are
96. 4:03going to start with some greetings so
97. 4:05how would you say in german hello
98. 4:08hello
99. 4:10okay that's not too difficult uh it's a
100. 4:12good word to start with let's let's try
101. 4:14that again you see it and then i'll
102. 4:15repeat it hello hello hello
103. 4:19okay so if hello is hello um can we just
104. 4:22say goodbye
105. 4:24uh it's slightly more difficult it's auf
106. 4:26wiedersehen okay let's hear that again
107. 4:29auf wiedersehen okay can you slow that
108. 4:31down the first word seems quite easy
109. 4:34but the the second word
110. 4:36vida
111. 4:37basically means see you again
112. 4:40veda
113. 4:44so let's repeat this word
114. 4:46auf wiedersehen
115. 4:47of wiedersehen of wiedersehen
116. 4:51okay
117. 4:53is there another way of saying goodbye
118. 4:55like uh yeah
119. 4:57easier one okay you just say juice
120. 5:00say that again
121. 5:04so is that more like an informal buy or
122. 5:07bye-bye
123. 5:08yeah you would say it in in daily life
124. 5:10and if you just go out of the bakery and
125. 5:12say juice
126. 5:13and if i were leaving the bakery for
127. 5:15example and i knew i was going to be
128. 5:17returning tomorrow how would i say
129. 5:20until tomorrow or see you tomorrow
130. 5:22miss morgan say that again this morgan
131. 5:27biss morgan
132. 5:30yes very good
133. 5:31okay i'm not quite sure about this
134. 5:34morgan
135. 5:35can you say morgan again morgan
136. 5:39so as i said i'm from the south of
137. 5:41germany of bavaria and in bavaria you
138. 5:44tend to roll the vr so it's morgan
139. 5:47but if you go further north it's more
140. 5:49like a morgan morgan
141. 5:51okay well me being a scot i can roll my
142. 5:54r's very easily so i can say morgan
143. 5:57morgan but if i'm further north in
144. 5:59germany i would maybe say something
145. 6:01different i would say morgan
146. 6:03so to say until tomorrow or see you
147. 6:05tomorrow
148. 6:06i can say bis morgen yes
149. 6:10and morgan as we heard also means
150. 6:12morning so if you want it's early in the
151. 6:14day you just say guten morgen what means
152. 6:17good morning
153. 6:18okay so we've got see let's hear that
154. 6:20again sorry guten morgen
155. 6:23guten morgen
156. 6:24guten morgen guten morgen
157. 6:27okay
158. 6:28guten morgen
159. 6:30and the other one bismartin
160. 6:32bismargen until tomorrow yes and good
161. 6:35morning good morning okay
162. 6:37so i think we'll we'll leave the other
163. 6:40greetings for different times of the day
164. 6:42until a later lesson but let's just
165. 6:44focus on these ones now we've got
166. 6:46hello
167. 6:49we've got
168. 6:50goodbye which was au vida zayn auf
169. 6:52wiedersehen or jus or trust that's the
170. 6:54other one so that's like by choose
171. 6:59and then we had until tomorrow is morgan
172. 7:02bismargen
173. 7:04miss morgan
174. 7:05and we also learned there good morning
175. 7:08which was guten morgen
176. 7:10guten morgen guten
177. 7:14so one of the other things that i would
178. 7:16always want to know early on in learning
179. 7:18a language is how to say how are you
180. 7:21so how would you see how are you in
181. 7:23german in german you'd just say v gates
182. 7:26say that again v gates
183. 7:29so what's the first word here
184. 7:31how we
185. 7:32v
186. 7:33gates
187. 7:34are you or is it going
188. 7:37so it literally means how is it going
189. 7:39yes we get
190. 7:42v gates
191. 7:43very good big gates
192. 7:45v gets b gates now how would i answer
193. 7:48that question how would i say
194. 7:50well
195. 7:52good
196. 7:53okay that's quite like good morning
197. 7:54isn't it good yeah it's the same word
198. 7:57so let's hear it again good
199. 8:00good
200. 8:01good
201. 8:03so if i ask you vegets
202. 8:10i'm assuming you've said thank you there
203. 8:12yes let's hear that again thank you
204. 8:15thank you
205. 8:16okay so i can say good danke
206. 8:20i'm fine thanks
207. 8:21okay so i'll ask you vigit good thank
208. 8:24you
209. 8:25and now you ask me be gates good thank
210. 8:28you very good
211. 8:30if i wanted to say i'm well thank you so
212. 8:34not just well thank you or good thank
213. 8:36you how would i say the i am part
214. 8:45so does that literally mean
215. 8:47i am
216. 8:48well or is it linked in some way to the
217. 8:50gates
218. 8:51it's going
219. 8:53no it's it doesn't mean i am well but it
220. 8:56means to me it's going well
221. 8:59so samir means to me yes and gates it's
222. 9:03going just like the question yes
223. 9:06and good
224. 9:07the well part okay so i can say mia gets
225. 9:11good yeah that's correct
226. 9:13mia gets good me it's good
227. 9:17or i'm well thank you to me it's going
228. 9:20well thank you
229. 9:21mia gets good danke
230. 9:23it's good thank you
231. 9:25okay
232. 9:26and if it's going very well
233. 9:30is there a word for very it's the word
234. 9:35so to say very good or very well i can
235. 9:39say circled
236. 9:41so good
237. 9:42so let me think can i say
238. 9:45mia gates they're good
239. 9:47yeah
240. 9:48i'm very valued okay
241. 9:52so that would be i'm very well thank you
242. 9:54or literally to me it's going very well
243. 9:56thank you mia gets that good danke
244. 9:59i'm very well thank you
245. 10:01okay and if i'm not feeling very good
246. 10:04how would i say
247. 10:05i'm feeling bad
248. 10:07schlecht would be the word for bad
249. 10:09let's hear that again
250. 10:14that's quite tricky
251. 10:16so it's schlecht
252. 10:19it's a sh sound
253. 10:21and at the end of t
254. 10:24but before the teethers are
255. 10:27it's uh i think it's more
256. 10:29easier to scottish people because
257. 10:31they're used to the absolutely
258. 10:34sound
259. 10:35so let's see
260. 10:38okay can i then replace
261. 10:41good with schlecht yeah you can say me
262. 10:44again
263. 10:59you
264. 10:59so we've got good
265. 11:02good
266. 11:08and
267. 11:11so if you're a little bit in between
268. 11:13you're not feeling really really good
269. 11:14but you don't feel really bad
270. 11:16you would say meergets nicht so good
271. 11:20which means i'm not so good
272. 11:22so let's hear that again
273. 11:26so
274. 11:41against nic
275. 11:44yes you can say that but
276. 11:46for uh i'm feeling regular i'm not so
277. 11:49good you would probably say me against
278. 11:51nicoboot
279. 11:53what about wonderful excellent fantastic
280. 11:56how would i say i am feeling fantastic
281. 11:59mia gates wunderbar
282. 12:01or mia gates oscar teichner
283. 12:03okay i think the first one sounded a
284. 12:05little more easy so let's go with that
285. 12:07say it
286. 12:08again wunderbar
287. 12:11it means literally translated wonderful
288. 12:14wonderful can i replace good again with
289. 12:16this umiya gets wunderbar yes you can
290. 12:19also always use the meerkats and then
291. 12:21good schlecht
292. 12:30and there was another word that you used
293. 12:32in there also what was that word i was
294. 12:34getting it can you slow that down please
295. 12:38net let's take it syllable by syllable
296. 12:40the first one the first syllable
297. 12:50yeah very good housekeeping
298. 12:54what does that mean
299. 12:56extraordinary
300. 12:57okay so i'm feeling fantastic yeah when
301. 13:00you're on the top of your mood then you
302. 13:01say oh
303. 13:02no
304. 13:16no the coffee break german team isn't
305. 13:18just me and thomas
306. 13:20we're also going to be joined regularly
307. 13:22by two other contributors
308. 13:24and i'm going to introduce them to you
309. 13:26now
310. 13:27to help us get to grips with the german
311. 13:30language we're going to be joined by
312. 13:32kirsten our grammar guru
313. 13:34and it's kirsten's job to help us
314. 13:37understand the intricate parts of the
315. 13:39german language
316. 13:41we'll meet kirsten in just a moment but
317. 13:43first let's turn to julia our cultural
318. 13:46correspondent hello mark and thomas and
319. 13:49thanks for inviting me to be part of
320. 13:51this exciting new show i'm really
321. 13:53excited to be involved in coffee break
322. 13:55german and i'm sure it's going to be a
323. 13:57huge success
324. 13:59as mark has explained learning a
325. 14:01language is not just about learning the
326. 14:03language itself
327. 14:05so much of a language is influenced by
328. 14:07the culture all the cultures which
329. 14:09surround it
330. 14:10and that's why i'm here as your cultural
331. 14:13correspondent
332. 14:15in each episode of coffee break german
333. 14:17i'm going to be bringing you some
334. 14:19cultural information
335. 14:21a little report on a particular aspect
336. 14:23of culture associated with a part of the
337. 14:26german-speaking world
338. 14:27and i really hope that you enjoy these
339. 14:29little cultural tidbits each week
340. 14:32like thomas i'm a native german speaker
341. 14:35but from quite a different part of the
342. 14:37country i come from potsdam in the
343. 14:40eastern part of the country just
344. 14:42southwest of berlin
345. 14:44i studied in leipzig and now i live and
346. 14:46work in the wonderful city of berlin
347. 14:50i'll be telling you more about berlin in
348. 14:52future episodes and indeed about many
349. 14:54other parts of germany austria and
350. 14:57switzerland and other places where
351. 14:59german are spoken as well
352. 15:02this is not the first time i've been
353. 15:04involved in a radiolingua course in fact
354. 15:06some of you may recognize my voice from
355. 15:09one minute german or a flavor of german
356. 15:12which i worked on in the past ich bin
357. 15:14sierfreux i'm really pleased to be
358. 15:16working on coffee break german now
359. 15:20that's all from me this week just a
360. 15:22little introduction but through my
361. 15:23weekly reports you'll get to know me a
362. 15:25bit better but more importantly you'll
363. 15:28get to know the cultures of the german
364. 15:30speaking areas better too
365. 15:32danger and bispite
366. 15:34and i'm going to take this opportunity
367. 15:36to introduce myself too
368. 15:38my name is kirsten and i'm going to be
369. 15:40your german grammar guru for the course
370. 15:43i love grammar i'm a bit of a grammar
371. 15:46geek to be honest and as the grammar
372. 15:48guru it's my job to help you understand
373. 15:51the patterns of the language just as
374. 15:53mark and thomas have explained
375. 15:55by learning the patterns you'll begin to
376. 15:58understand how the language works and
377. 16:00you'll have a really strong foundation
378. 16:02to build upon as you move forward with
379. 16:04the course
380. 16:06like mark i come from scotland
381. 16:08but i've been studying german for many
382. 16:10years i have an honours degree in german
383. 16:13and i spent a lot of time living and
384. 16:15working in germany
385. 16:17in my working life i use german every
386. 16:19single day and i have many friends from
387. 16:21various parts of the german speaking
388. 16:23world
389. 16:26i love all things german the music the
390. 16:29literature
391. 16:30the beautiful villages towns and cities
392. 16:33i've traveled to from the baltic coast
393. 16:35to the alps
394. 16:36and of course the people
395. 16:38they're so friendly and welcoming
396. 16:42i'm not a native speaker of german but
397. 16:44as someone who has learned german from
398. 16:46scratch i understand the difficulties
399. 16:48for learners and so i hope i can help
400. 16:51you overcome these difficulties just as
401. 16:53my own teachers did for me when i first
402. 16:55started
403. 16:57i'm delighted to be part of the coffee
404. 16:59break german team and i'm looking
405. 17:01forward to bringing you my weekly
406. 17:02grammar guru segments
407. 17:04i'll hand you back now to mark and
408. 17:06thomas in the studio
409. 17:08thanks to kirsten and to yulia before we
410. 17:10finish the lesson let's go through all
411. 17:12the words and phrases that we've learned
412. 17:14today
413. 17:15so to begin with hello hello
414. 17:18hello hello
415. 17:21goodbye
416. 17:22auf wiedersehen auf wiedersehen auf
417. 17:24wiedersehen
418. 17:27see you or bye-bye chris
419. 17:30chris
420. 17:33see you tomorrow is morgan
421. 17:36miss morgan with morgan
422. 17:40and we also learned good morning good
423. 17:42morning
424. 17:43guten morgen gooden morgan
425. 17:46and we'll be adding some more greetings
426. 17:48for different times of the day in our
427. 17:50next lesson
428. 17:51we learned how to ask how are you
429. 17:54we gates
430. 17:56we get
431. 17:57the
432. 17:58gates we learned i'm well
433. 18:02make it's good
434. 18:03me gets good make it's good
435. 18:07we also learned thank you
436. 18:09thank you thank
437. 18:11you
438. 18:14we learned i'm very well
439. 18:17make it so good
440. 18:19they're good
441. 18:22i'm
442. 18:23not so well make it
443. 18:43and then there was that one that's quite
444. 18:44difficult to pronounce but it sounds
445. 18:46very german
446. 18:47i'm feeling extraordinary fantastic i
447. 18:50mean
448. 18:57[Music]
449. 19:05today because i have learned my first
450. 19:07few phrases of german and i would like
451. 19:09to say thank you or now that i can see
452. 19:12it in in german thank you to thomas
453. 19:15thank you mark
454. 19:17it was a wonderful lesson and i think we
455. 19:18now have a basic idea how to for
456. 19:21greetings and saying goodbye absolutely
457. 19:24now in the next lesson we'll be taking
458. 19:25our greetings further and learning a few
459. 19:28more useful phrases in german
460. 19:30now if you'd like to find out how you
461. 19:32can get more out of your coffee break
462. 19:34german experience then head over to our
463. 19:36website at coffeebreakgerman.com
464. 19:40it's time now to say goodbye and we'll
465. 19:42be back again soon with more coffee
466. 19:44break german i'll be the same i'll feed
467. 19:47[Music]
468. 19:53[Music]
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