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INTRODUCTION
Chuck: Chuck here. Absolute Beginner, Season 1, Lesson 24 – “Hey Soccer Fans!”
Judith: Hi, my name is Judith and I’m joined here by Chuck.
Chuck: Hello everyone and welcome back to GermanPod101.
Judith: What are we learning today?
Chuck: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to describe interesting things that you see!
Judith: This conversation takes place on a street in Berlin.
Chuck: The conversation is between Joe and Anke.
Judith: The speakers are friends, therefore they will be speaking informal German.
Chuck: Let’s listen to the conversation!
DIALOGUE
Joe: Haha, guck mal die da!
Anke: Wer?
Joe: Die Männer da vorne!
Anke: Ach die! Das sind Fußballfans!
Joe: Haha, ja, das kann man nicht übersehen!
Anke: Guckst du Fußball?
Joe: Ja, manchmal. Wenn es Länderspiele sind, gucke ich gerne Fußball.
Anke: Super! Ich hoffe, dass du heute Abend Zeit hast? Ich gucke Fußball mit Freunden bei mir zu Hause. Du musst auch kommen!
Joe: Ich muss? Aber das mache ich doch gerne! Spielt Deutschland heute?
Anke: Ja!
Joe: Oh toll! Ein Deutschland-Spiel mit Deutschen gucken! Das wird sicher toll! Hast du einen Lieblingsspieler?
Anke: Hmm, ich finde Michael Ballack toll.
Joe: Oh, den kenne ich! Er ist Stürmer, oder?
Anke: Nein! Er spielt im Mittelfeld! Aber er spielt jetzt nicht, weil er verletzt ist.
Joe: Oh, schade. Hast du ein Trikot von Michael Ballack oder einen Schal?
Anke: Hmm, nein.
Joe: Was? Du musst doch ein Trikot haben, wenn du ein richtiger Fan bist!
Anke: Ja, stimmt! Dann kaufen wir jetzt Trikots! Ich kaufe ein Trikot von Micheal Ballack! Und du?
Joe: Hmm, ich will ein Trikot von dem Torwart!
Anke: Gut, dann los! Da vorne ist ein Sportladen, der sicher Trikots hat.
Joe: Na dann los! Oléeee, olé olé oléeeee, wir sind die Champions oléeeee!
Anke: Haha, du bist jetzt schon ein richtiger Fan, auch wenn du noch kein Trikot hast!!!
Joe: Haha, look at them over there!
Anke: Who?
Joe: The men up front!
Anke: Oh them! They’re soccer fans!
Joe: Haha, yes, that can't be overlooked!
Anke: Do you watch soccer?
Joe: Yeah, sometimes. If there's a match between two countries, I'm happy to watch.
Anke: Great! I hope that you have time tonight? I’m going to watch soccer with friends at my home. You must come as well!
Joe: I must? But I like doing that! Is Germany playing today?
Anke: Yes!
Joe: Oh cool! It'll definitely be cool to watch a Germany game with Germans! Do you have a favorite player?
Anke: Hmm, I think Michael Ballack is nice.
Joe: Oh, I know him! He's a forward, right?
Anke: No! He plays in midfield! But he's not playing now, because he's injured.
Joe: Oh, that's too bad. Do you have a Michael Ballack jersey or maybe a scarf?
Anke: Hmm, no.
Joe: What? You really must have a jersey if you're a real fan!
Anke: Yeah, true. Then let's buy jerseys! I'll buy a Michael Ballack jersey! And you?
Joe: Hmm, I want a goalie jersey.
Anke: Good, let's go! There up front is a sports store that certainly has jerseys.
Joe: Let's go then! Oléeee, olé olé oléeeee, we are the champions oléeeee!
Anke: Haha, you're already a real fan, even when you don't have a jersey yet!
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Judith: Alright! Now this lesson should be about soccer, shouldn’t it?
Chuck: Yeah, sure.
Judith: Soccer is everywhere in Germany. It’s our national sport!
Chuck: More than six million people are registered members of the [Deutsche Fußball Bund], the German Football Association.
Judith: No, soccer association.
Chuck: Ah, it’s right. Be careful, remember that [Fußball] is “soccer”.
Judith: Yes.
Chuck: But British for “football”.
Judith: And, really, right now, it’s so hard to escape the euphoria because Germany is playing in the World Cup and well, people are going crazy.
Chuck: You see German flags everywhere.
Judith: Yes, it’s about the only time you see German flags. This is definitively the occasion for one.
Chuck: I know near us, whenever Germany makes a goal, we hear a really loud “BOOM” from across the street.
Judith: Yes. I don’t know what kind of firecrackers they got, but it’s shaking the core of the buildings.
Chuck: I think she jumps about two meters high when it hits.
Judith: It’s bad. Anyway, so another thing about soccer, in case you never learned about it, soccer is played with 11 players on each side, and every team has one goalie which is called [Torwart] in German and then there’s a variable number of defense players called [Abwehr] in German. There’s also mid-fielders called [Mittelfeld] and forward players, [Stürmer] in German.
Chuck: Oh wait, but I thought [Verteidigung] was defense.
Judith: Yeah, but [Abwehr] is most likely used in soccer.
Chuck: Ah, so it’s pretty much a different term for sports and war for example?
Judith: Yeah.
Chuck: Well, as I mentioned earlier, the game is called [Fußball], it is “foot-ball” in German, because players primarily use their feet to move the ball forward toward the goal. Well except for the goalie, no one is allowed to use their hands. However, it’s possible to move a ball a little with your upper body or with your head, well, not with your arms though.
Judith: Yes. Arms are not allowed, except for the goalie. And unlike American football, the game is not violent. The focus is more on intercepting passes, being in your opponent’s way or using techniques to take the ball away from him. And of course there’s a science behind outsmarting the goalie and scoring a goal.
Chuck: German kids grew up with soccer. Like, you can just just pretty much ask any random German and they can explain the intricate soccer rules to you like the famous offsides rule. So you should at least know some basics of soccer, watch a game once. And if you want to have fun, if you’re an American, try to teach some Germans some baseball rules. It’s fun to watch them show their confusion on their faces as you explain the game.
Judith: Yeah.
Chuck: I guess for the British, the cricket would work well.
Judith: Yes. If you want to learn more about soccer in Germany, you should see our audio blog number six.
Chuck: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.
VOCAB LIST
Chuck: The first word is?
Judith: [gucken]
Chuck: “To watch”
Judith: [gucken, gucken]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [wer]
Chuck: “Who”
Judith: [wer, wer]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Fußball]
Chuck: “Soccer”
Judith: [Fußball, der Fußball] and the plural is [Fußbälle]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Fan]
Chuck: “Fan”
Judith: [Fan, der Fan] and the plural is [Fans]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [übersehen]
Chuck: “To overlook”
Judith: [übersehen, übersehen] the forms are [Er übersieht] and the rest you don’t have to worry about yet. Just remember that it’s a vowel-changing verb.
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Land]
Chuck: “Country, land” or “countryside”
Judith: [Land, das Land] and the plural is [Länder]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Abend]
Chuck: “Evening”
Judith: [Abend, der Abend] the plural is [Abende]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Lieblings]
Chuck: “Favorite”
Judith: [Lieblings, Lieblings]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [verletzt]
Chuck: “Injured” or “hurt”
Judith: [verletzt, verletzt]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Trikot]
Chuck: “Jersey”
Judith: [Trikot, das Trikot] and the plural is [Trikots]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Schal]
Chuck: “Scarf”
Judith: [Schal, der Schal]. This word is masculine and the plural is [Schals].
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Sport]
Chuck: “Sport”
Judith: [Sport, der Sport]
Chuck: Next?
Judith: [Laden]
Chuck: “Shop”
Judith: [Laden, der Laden] and the plural is [Läden]
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Chuck: Let’s have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson.
Judith: The first word is [Länderspiel]
Chuck: “Match between two countries”.
Judith: It’s the plural of [Land] which is [Länder] and then [Spiel], so “country’s game, country’s match”. There are two new words based on the same root as [spielen], one is [das Spiel].
Chuck: “Game” or “match”
Judith: And the other is [der Spieler].
Chuck: “Player”
Judith: This will also be the subject of our grammar point. And then, I want to draw your attention to the phrase [das wird sicher toll]. It’s the same as saying [das wird sicher toll sein], but the future tense of the [sein] can be abbreviated like this, to make the sentences shorter, more lively, more snappy, [das wird sicher toll].

Lesson focus

Chuck: The focus of this lesson is forming nouns based on verbs in German.
Judith: The first way is by just capitalizing the verb. It may sound too easy to you but it actually works. What you get is the grammatical form called the gerund and it’s always neuter. For example, [arbeiten]
Chuck: “To work”.
Judith: And the noun is [das Arbeiten]
Chuck: “The working”.
Judith: [spielen]
Chuck: “To play”.
Judith: [Das Spielen]
Chuck: “The playing”.
Judith: This kind of form is used in phrases like [Das Spielen von Fußball ist sehr gesund].
Chuck: “The playing of soccer is very healthy.”
Judith: When you want to talk about the action.
Chuck: Another way is by taking out the infinitive ending. It doesn’t always work, but very often, it will reveal another noun related to this verb.
Judith: For example, [arbeiten]
Chuck: “To work”
Judith: [die Arbeit]
Chuck: “The work”
Judith: [spielen]
Chuck: “To play”
Judith: [das Spiel]
Chuck: “The game”. For more advanced vocabulary, you’ll often find nouns ending in “U-N-G” instead. These are always feminine and focus on the duration aspect.
Judith: [besichtigen]
Chuck: “To tour”
Judith: [die Besichtigung]
Chuck: “The tour”
Judith: [bestellen]
Chuck: “To order”
Judith: [die Bestellung]
Chuck: “The order”
Judith: [erzählen]
Chuck: “To tell”
Judith: [die Erzählung]
Chuck: “Story”. Finally, when you want the word for somebody who’s doing the action, use the ending “E-R”. It works pretty much like in English. Words created this way are always masculine and don’t change for plural.
Judith: [arbeiten]
Chuck: “To work”
Judith: [der Arbeiter]
Chuck: “The worker”
Judith: [spielen]
Chuck: “To play”
Judith: [der Spieler]
Chuck: “The player”
Judith: [erzählen]
Chuck: “To tell”
Judith: [der Erzähler]

Outro

Chuck: “The narrator”. That just about does it for today. Before we go, I want to tell you about a way to drastically improve your pronunciation.
Judith: The voice recording tool.
Chuck: Yes, the voice recording tool.
Judith: Record your voice with a click of a button.
Chuck: Then play it back just as easily.
Judith: Record and listen, then?
Chuck: Compare it to native speakers.
Judith: And adjust your pronunciation.
Chuck: This will help you improve your pronunciation fast. See you next week!
Judith: [Bis nächste Woche]
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GermanPod101.com
2010-06-21 18:30:00

Habt ihr ein Trikot? Ein Fußball-Trikot oder ein anderes?

Do you have a jersey? A soccer jersey or a different one?

GermanPod101.com
2023-09-28 09:04:19

Hello Eugene,

Thank you for getting back to us.

It's a fair point and we thought about it, but we are afraid people will then

go straight to the translation when they don't understand something right away rather than trying to work it out

for themselves first, which can be counterproductive when learning a language.

Your feedback is appreciated, however. We were able to improve our lessons over the

years thanks to learners with good suggestions. 👍😉

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us again.

Kind regards,

Reinhard

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Eugene
2023-09-28 01:22:37

It would be nice if when you do the translation, that you had the English phrase under the German phrase.

GermanPod101.com
2021-11-19 09:36:08

Hi Delia,

Thank you for your little story! 👍❤️️

That was a nice piece of homework you did there. Please allow me to make a

few tiny little changes in order to aid your learning:

Ich bin kein Eishockeyfan aber Eishockey ist sehr beliebt in meiner Stadt. An Spieltagen tragen die Eishockeyfans rote und schwarze Kleidung. Sie tragen Maentel, Jacken, Trikots, Huete, oder Decken. Ich wohne in der Naehe des Stadiums, also sehe ich die Fans und hoere ihren Jubel (und höre sie jubeln).

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us again.😉

Kind regards,

Reinhard

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Delia
2021-11-16 15:29:59

Ich bin kein Eishockeyfan aber Eishockey ist wiel beliebt in meiner Stadt. An Spieltagen tragen die Eishockeyfans rote und schwarze Kleidung. Sie tragen Maentel, Jacken, Trikots, Huete, oder Decken. Ich wohne in der Naehe dem Stadium, also siehe ich den Fans und hoere ich ihr Jubel.

GermanPod101.com
2020-03-08 01:13:58

Hallo robert groulx,

Danke schön for taking the time to leave us a comment. 😇

We are very happy to have you here.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Levente

Team GermanPod101.com

robert groulx
2020-03-06 05:55:38

thank you for the lsson transcript

favorite phrase is [Das Spielen von Fußball ist sehr gesund]

robert

GermanPod101.com
2019-06-07 06:58:30

Hi Christine,

Thank you for your feedback!👍

I find American football as well as rugby quite interesting

although I am German. Something else for a change.😉

Please allow me to make a few tiny little changes to your sentence:

Ja, ich habe ein Trikot für eine amerikanische Fußballmannschaft, die Cleveland Browns.

Gehen Sie zu den Browns!

If you have any further questions, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Reinhard

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Christine
2019-06-01 02:44:31

Ja, ich habe ein Trikot fur der amerikanischen Fußballmannschaft, die Cleveland Browns. Gehen Sie Browns!

GermanPod101.com
2019-01-16 23:19:18

Hi Elijah,

Yes, in the example you give it is

the article that clarifies whether it's plural or singular.

Well spotted.

@ Elijah M,

I love it when I start thinking about my own language

in ways I never have before. Yes, you would translate "oder"

as "right?". The reason, I think, is that it can also mean "or", as you

point out correctly yourself, so "oder" as in "right?" is the short

form of "oder gibt es noch eine andere Antwort/Lösung?".

(or is there also another answer?).

In the example above in the text: "Er ist Stürmer, oder (nicht)?

Thank you.

If you have any further questions, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Reinhard

Team GermanPod101.com

Elijah
2019-01-12 11:42:30

Reading this lesson has been the hardest so far. I thought "oder" only meant "or" but in your English translations it is showing it as meaning "right." Is this what they do in Germany?

Elijah M
2019-01-11 14:32:59

You said words don't change for plural. Would the particle make it plural?

der Arbeiter - the worker

die Arbeiter - the workers

GermanPod101.com
2018-12-13 07:29:42

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your comment.

We decided to use the dictionary form in the lesson itself

but if you open the PDF-file with the lesson notes, you can

find the gender there.

I hope this helps.

If you have any further questions, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Reinhard

Team GermanPod101.com

Jason
2018-12-11 18:25:00

Is it possible for the gender to be added to these vocabulary sections?

GermanPod101.com
2018-05-26 02:37:39

Hello Trista,

You're teacher is right saying that the "g" in the end of a word usually sounds like "k".

In colloquial language some people also tend to pronounce "g" in the beginning of a word as "k". It depends on their dialect and the area they live in.

Sincerely,

Anne

Team GermanPod101.com

Trista
2018-05-23 01:50:28

I notice that the letter "g" in the word "gucken" is pronounced like /k/, but my teacher told me that we should pronounce "g" as /k/ only when it is at the end of a word, for instance, Tag, Krieg, mag, sag, etc.

I feel a little confused now...or maybe I didn't hear the word clearly?

Hope to get the answer soon. Vielen Dank!

GermanPod101.com
2018-04-02 17:27:42

Hello Carly,

Thank you for posting.

"Zeit" means "time" in sense of "What time is it? At what time are they coming?"

"Mal" means "(1,2,3...) time(s)" in sense of "How many times have you been to this restaurant? How many times did the team win?"

I hope this was helpful.

Sincerely,

Anne

Team GermanPod101.com

Carly
2018-03-29 22:20:21

What is the difference between Zeit and Mal?

GermanPod101.com
2018-03-07 02:36:15

Hi Amerikanerin,

In this case you have to choose the male or female ending depending on the sex of the person.

E.g.:

Arbeiter (m) - Arbeiterin (f)

Spieler - Spielerin

Lehrer - Lehrerin...

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Sincerely,

Anne

Team GermanPod101.com

Amerikanerin
2018-03-04 20:02:20

Moin! Danke für die Podcasts!

When making a noun out of a verb, as in the person doing something, (arbeiten = der Arbeiter, spielen = der Spieler, usw) - are the nouns always in masculine? Even if the "worker" or "player" in question is a woman? In other words, would I, in this case, use "Arbeiter" even if I was referring to a female worker, or would it become die Arbeiterin?

GermanPod101.com
2017-12-08 00:45:50

Hello Mich,

Vielen Dank für den Kommentar!

Ein Basketball Trikot ist eine tolle Sache. Wir hoffen es gefällt dir gut!

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Albert

Team GermanPod101.com

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