Greetings in German | Coffee Break German Podcast S1E01

coffee break german lesson one [Music] hello my name is mark hello and my name is thomas and welcome to coffee break german this is the first in our new series which will help you learn german step by step with us now you may already be familiar with coffee break french or coffee break spanish and we're delighted to add german to a range of coffee break languages now if you've listened to coffee break french or spanish then you'll know that my role in those shows was to teach anna or kara and also to teach our listeners

but in this program i'm going to be taking on a different role because my german isn't very good at all i can manage a few words but not very much so for that reason i brought along thomas and thomas is a native german speaker and he's going to be helping me and you learn german together so tomas can you introduce yourself please and let all our listeners know who you are and where you come from as i said my name is thomas i come from the south of germany from bavaria and i'm currently studying in

innsbruck which is in austria and doing my master's in geography in natural hazards okay and we have asked you to help us out with coffee break german as a native german speaker you're obviously going to be bringing that authentic element to our course and you are going to be helping me improve my german over the course of these lessons yes i am a native speaker and i speak german every day and i hope that i can teach you german and all the listeners are able to speak perfect german at the end of the course excellent

i guess then we should really get started with this first lesson so mark mr fatigue are you ready i am indeed done [Music] so before we go any further you've already asked me a german question thomas you asked me am i ready can you repeat that question for me it's too fatic once more it's too fatic now as thomas says german phrases then i will try to repeat the german phrases and my rather bad german accent and hopefully other listeners will also be repeating along with me let's hear the question one more time and that

means are you ready now does each word mean the same in the same order there so bist does that are you ready and how would i answer that question if i want to say yes i'm ready yeah yeah okay so i i already know that so that's yeah for yes and if i were to say no what would i say i would say 9 nine yes so like the number nine in english almost yeah it sounds the same so let's get into uh our rhythm of repeating these words so that our listeners can repeat along

you say the word first then i'll repeat it and then you say it again so that the last thing your listeners hear is your correct pronunciation okay does that seem okay yes excellent so let's go with yes yeah yeah yeah and no nine nine nine okay and let's just come back to that question are you ready bistophetic bistro fatigue is let's learn some more german we are going to start with some greetings so how would you say in german hello hello okay that's not too difficult uh it's a good word to start with let's let's

try that again you see it and then i'll repeat it hello hello hello okay so if hello is hello um can we just say goodbye uh it's slightly more difficult it's auf wiedersehen okay let's hear that again auf wiedersehen okay can you slow that down the first word seems quite easy but the the second word vida basically means see you again veda so let's repeat this word auf wiedersehen of wiedersehen of wiedersehen okay is there another way of saying goodbye like uh yeah easier one okay you just say juice say that again so is that

more like an informal buy or bye-bye yeah you would say it in in daily life and if you just go out of the bakery and say juice and if i were leaving the bakery for example and i knew i was going to be returning tomorrow how would i say until tomorrow or see you tomorrow miss morgan say that again this morgan biss morgan yes very good okay i'm not quite sure about this morgan can you say morgan again morgan so as i said i'm from the south of germany of bavaria and in bavaria you tend

to roll the vr so it's morgan but if you go further north it's more like a morgan morgan okay well me being a scot i can roll my r's very easily so i can say morgan morgan but if i'm further north in germany i would maybe say something different i would say morgan so to say until tomorrow or see you tomorrow i can say bis morgen yes and morgan as we heard also means morning so if you want it's early in the day you just say guten morgen what means good morning okay so we've got

see let's hear that again sorry guten morgen guten morgen guten morgen guten morgen okay guten morgen and the other one bismartin bismargen until tomorrow yes and good morning good morning okay so i think we'll we'll leave the other greetings for different times of the day until a later lesson but let's just focus on these ones now we've got hello we've got goodbye which was au vida zayn auf wiedersehen or jus or trust that's the other one so that's like by choose and then we had until tomorrow is morgan bismargen miss morgan and we also learned

there good morning which was guten morgen guten morgen guten so one of the other things that i would always want to know early on in learning a language is how to say how are you so how would you see how are you in german in german you'd just say v gates say that again v gates so what's the first word here how we v gates are you or is it going so it literally means how is it going yes we get v gates very good big gates v gets b gates now how would i answer

that question how would i say well good okay that's quite like good morning isn't it good yeah it's the same word so let's hear it again good good good so if i ask you vegets i'm assuming you've said thank you there yes let's hear that again thank you thank you okay so i can say good danke i'm fine thanks okay so i'll ask you vigit good thank you and now you ask me be gates good thank you very good if i wanted to say i'm well thank you so not just well thank you or good

thank you how would i say the i am part so does that literally mean i am well or is it linked in some way to the gates it's going no it's it doesn't mean i am well but it means to me it's going well so samir means to me yes and gates it's going just like the question yes and good the well part okay so i can say mia gets good yeah that's correct mia gets good me it's good or i'm well thank you to me it's going well thank you mia gets good danke it's

good thank you okay and if it's going very well is there a word for very it's the word so to say very good or very well i can say circled so good so let me think can i say mia gates they're good yeah i'm very valued okay so that would be i'm very well thank you or literally to me it's going very well thank you mia gets that good danke i'm very well thank you okay and if i'm not feeling very good how would i say i'm feeling bad schlecht would be the word for bad

let's hear that again that's quite tricky so it's schlecht it's a sh sound and at the end of t but before the teethers are it's uh i think it's more easier to scottish people because they're used to the absolutely sound so let's see okay can i then replace good with schlecht yeah you can say me again you so we've got good good and so if you're a little bit in between you're not feeling really really good but you don't feel really bad you would say meergets nicht so good which means i'm not so good so

let's hear that again so against nic yes you can say that but for uh i'm feeling regular i'm not so good you would probably say me against nicoboot what about wonderful excellent fantastic how would i say i am feeling fantastic mia gates wunderbar or mia gates oscar teichner okay i think the first one sounded a little more easy so let's go with that say it again wunderbar it means literally translated wonderful wonderful can i replace good again with this umiya gets wunderbar yes you can also always use the meerkats and then good schlecht and there

was another word that you used in there also what was that word i was getting it can you slow that down please net let's take it syllable by syllable the first one the first syllable yeah very good housekeeping what does that mean extraordinary okay so i'm feeling fantastic yeah when you're on the top of your mood then you say oh no no the coffee break german team isn't just me and thomas we're also going to be joined regularly by two other contributors and i'm going to introduce them to you now to help us get to

grips with the german language we're going to be joined by kirsten our grammar guru and it's kirsten's job to help us understand the intricate parts of the german language we'll meet kirsten in just a moment but first let's turn to julia our cultural correspondent hello mark and thomas and thanks for inviting me to be part of this exciting new show i'm really excited to be involved in coffee break german and i'm sure it's going to be a huge success as mark has explained learning a language is not just about learning the language itself so much

of a language is influenced by the culture all the cultures which surround it and that's why i'm here as your cultural correspondent in each episode of coffee break german i'm going to be bringing you some cultural information a little report on a particular aspect of culture associated with a part of the german-speaking world and i really hope that you enjoy these little cultural tidbits each week like thomas i'm a native german speaker but from quite a different part of the country i come from potsdam in the eastern part of the country just southwest of berlin

i studied in leipzig and now i live and work in the wonderful city of berlin i'll be telling you more about berlin in future episodes and indeed about many other parts of germany austria and switzerland and other places where german are spoken as well this is not the first time i've been involved in a radiolingua course in fact some of you may recognize my voice from one minute german or a flavor of german which i worked on in the past ich bin sierfreux i'm really pleased to be working on coffee break german now that's all

from me this week just a little introduction but through my weekly reports you'll get to know me a bit better but more importantly you'll get to know the cultures of the german speaking areas better too danger and bispite and i'm going to take this opportunity to introduce myself too my name is kirsten and i'm going to be your german grammar guru for the course i love grammar i'm a bit of a grammar geek to be honest and as the grammar guru it's my job to help you understand the patterns of the language just as mark

and thomas have explained by learning the patterns you'll begin to understand how the language works and you'll have a really strong foundation to build upon as you move forward with the course like mark i come from scotland but i've been studying german for many years i have an honours degree in german and i spent a lot of time living and working in germany in my working life i use german every single day and i have many friends from various parts of the german speaking world i love all things german the music the literature the beautiful

villages towns and cities i've traveled to from the baltic coast to the alps and of course the people they're so friendly and welcoming i'm not a native speaker of german but as someone who has learned german from scratch i understand the difficulties for learners and so i hope i can help you overcome these difficulties just as my own teachers did for me when i first started i'm delighted to be part of the coffee break german team and i'm looking forward to bringing you my weekly grammar guru segments i'll hand you back now to mark and

thomas in the studio thanks to kirsten and to yulia before we finish the lesson let's go through all the words and phrases that we've learned today so to begin with hello hello hello hello goodbye auf wiedersehen auf wiedersehen auf wiedersehen see you or bye-bye chris chris see you tomorrow is morgan miss morgan with morgan and we also learned good morning good morning guten morgen gooden morgan and we'll be adding some more greetings for different times of the day in our next lesson we learned how to ask how are you we gates we get the gates

we learned i'm well make it's good me gets good make it's good we also learned thank you thank you thank you we learned i'm very well make it so good they're good i'm not so well make it and then there was that one that's quite difficult to pronounce but it sounds very german i'm feeling extraordinary fantastic i mean [Music] today because i have learned my first few phrases of german and i would like to say thank you or now that i can see it in in german thank you to thomas thank you mark it was

a wonderful lesson and i think we now have a basic idea how to for greetings and saying goodbye absolutely now in the next lesson we'll be taking our greetings further and learning a few more useful phrases in german now if you'd like to find out how you can get more out of your coffee break german experience then head over to our website at coffeebreakgerman.com it's time now to say goodbye and we'll be back again soon with more coffee break german i'll be the same i'll feed [Music] [Music] [Music] this is a production of the radiolink

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