Learn how to talk about a vacation
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Chuck: Chuck here, upper intermediate season 1 lesson 25. German holidays. Hello and welcome to Germanpod101.com, the fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn German. |
| Judith: I’m Judith and thanks again for being here with us for this upper intermediate season one lesson. |
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| Judith: What shall we learn in this lesson? |
| Chuck: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about a vacation. |
| Judith: This conversation takes place at a German office. |
| Chuck: The conversation is between Mrs. Bayer and Mr. Jones. |
| Judith: The speakers are colleagues and friends, therefore they’ll be speaking informal German. |
| Chuck: Let’s listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Jones: So das war‘s! Ich wünsch Ihnen alles Gute, Frau Bayer! |
| Bayer: Was?! Haben Sie gekündigt? |
| Jones: Nein, keine Sorge. Ich habe nicht gekündigt. Ich habe ab morgen Urlaub. |
| Bayer: Ach so. Mensch, Sie haben mich aber erschreckt! Ich dachte schon, wir arbeiten hier Tag für Tag zusammen und Sie erzählen mir nicht, dass Sie hier aufhören! |
| Jones: Oh, tut mir leid. Das wollte ich nicht. Ich freue mich nur so, weil ich ab morgen im Urlaub bin! |
| Bayer: Wohin fahren Sie denn? |
| Jones: Ich werde zwei Wochen durch Europa reisen und mir verschiedene Städte angucken. Schritt für Schritt durch Europa also. |
| Bayer: Wow, das hört sich interessant an. Und welche Städte besuchen Sie? |
| Jones: Also zuerst fliege ich nach Amsterdam und Paris. Danach geht es noch nach Wien und Prag und dann wieder zurück nach Berlin. |
| Bayer: Wow, das ist ja eine tolle Route! Dann sehen Sie nach und nach viele tolle Städte. |
| Jones: Ja, ich hoffe doch, dass sie toll sind. Waren Sie schon in einer dieser Städte? |
| Bayer: Ich war in Amsterdam, in Wien und in Paris. Aber ich habe die Städte einzeln besucht, eine nach der anderen. |
| Jones: Und welche Stadt fanden Sie am besten? |
| Bayer: Hmm, Paris! |
| Jones: Aaah, die Stadt der Liebe…haha…. |
| Bayer: Haha, ja! |
| Jones: So that's it! I wish you all the best, Mrs. Bayer! |
| Bayer: What?! Did you quit? |
| Jones: No, don't worry. I didn't quit. I have vacation starting tomorrow. |
| Bayer: Oh. Man, you scared me! I thought, we work here together day by day, and you didn't tell me that you quit! |
| Jones: Oh, sorry. I didn't want that. I'm just looking forward to being on vacation tomorrow! |
| Bayer: So, where are you going? |
| Jones: I'm travelling for two weeks through Europe to check out various cities. So step by step through Europe. |
| Bayer: Wow, that sounds interesting. And which cities are you visiting? |
| Jones: First I'm flying to Amsterdam and Paris. After that, continuing to Vienna and Prague, and then back to Berlin. |
| Bayer: Wow, that's quite a nice route! Bit by bit, you'll see a lot of cool cities. |
| Jones: Yeah, I hope so. Have you been to any of those cities? |
| Bayer: I've been to Amsterdam, Vienna, and Paris. But I visited them each individually, not one after the other. |
| Jones: And which city did you like the best? |
| Bayer: Hmm, Paris! |
| Jones: Aaah, the city of love, haha... |
| Bayer: Haha, yeah! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Judith: Okay, maybe it’s time to talk a bit about vacation. We are going to vacation soon. What about Germans on vacation? |
| Chuck: The most popular holiday destination for Germans is Myakka an island in the Mediterranean sea. |
| Judith: Yes, well this is for those who are craving sun and booze. There’s also northern Italy or the Garda Lake. They are also popular for the same reason. |
| Chuck: If you want a cheaper vacation you can go to [Balkonien] |
| Judith: [Balkonien] It’s what you call the holiday destination of the people who can’t afford to go anywhere but they do as if they were tourists in their own city. |
| Chuck: So they sit in their Balcony. |
| Judith: Yes. And of course in the winter people go to the Alps no matter if German Alps, Austrian Alps, Swiss Alps, whatever. |
| Chuck: And Germans like to travel abroad even outside the EU if they can afford to. The situation like in the USA where the majority of the population doesn’t even have a passport, it’s unimaginable. Well you just have to remember that Germany is a comparatively smaller country. |
| Judith: Yes, there are two annoying habits of Germans on a holiday. One is that they claim patches from the beach or the beach chairs by putting a towel up there in the morning and then they leave for breakfast or whatever. |
| Chuck: Another characteristic is that they can’t cope with relaxed schedules such as people or public transport being more than twenty minutes late on average. |
| Judith: Yes, everything has to be on schedule but in [in Ordnung] |
| Chuck: You can imagine how they deal with train systems in other countries. Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is; |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Judith: [Urlaub] |
| Chuck: Vacation. |
| Judith: [Urlaub, der] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [erschrecken] |
| Chuck: To frighten or scare. |
| Judith: [erschrecken] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [aufhören] |
| Chuck: To stop. |
| Judith: [aufhören] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [Schritt] |
| Chuck: Step. |
| Judith: [Schritt, der] and the plural is [Schritte] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [danach] |
| Chuck: Afterwards. |
| Judith: [danach] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [Route] |
| Chuck: Route. |
| Judith: [Route, die] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [nach und nach] |
| Chuck: By and by or bit by bit. |
| Judith: [nach und nach] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [einzeln] |
| Chuck: Single, individually or separately. |
| Judith: [einzeln] |
| Chuck: Next. |
| Judith: [Liebe] |
| Chuck: Love. |
| Judith: [Liebe, die] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Chuck: Let’s have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases for this lesson. |
| Judith: The first phrase we’ll look at is [alles Gute] |
| Chuck: Roughly the same as “wish you all the best”. |
| Judith: It’s a general thing that you can say at birthdays, weddings, wedding anniversaries and so on.If you don’t know the specific expression that the occasion calls for [alles Gute] is never wrong. And we should also look at the [denn] in [wohin fahren Sie denn]? |
| Chuck: It doesn’t mean “then” in this case. |
| Judith: Yes in fact I’d translate it as [so] like so where are you going? It’s an invitation to say more. [wohin fahren Sie denn] and finally [eine nach der anderen] means after the other. It’s almost like in English except you have to adjust this expression while the gender of the implied noun so the cities [die Stadt] say [eine nach der anderen] but for men you’d have to say [einer nach dem anderen] and for things you’d have to say [eins nach dem anderen] is also an idiom, meaning that people should slow down and finish one thing first. |
Lesson focus |
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| Chuck: The grammar focus for this lesson is graduality. |
| Judith: Today let’s look at how to express graduality in German. Things like day by day, month after month, year after year. In most cases, Germans use the word [für] to connect words this way. Like [Tag für Tag] |
| Chuck: Day by day. |
| Judith: [Woche für Woche] |
| Chuck: Week after week. |
| Judith: [Monat für Monat] |
| Chuck: Month after month. |
| Judith: [Jahr für Jahr] |
| Chuck: Year after year. |
| Judith: This also applies to the expression [Schritt für Schritt]. |
| Chuck: Step by step. |
| Judith: However it does not apply to [nach und nach] is a set expression meaning by and by, bit by bit and as you’ve heard it’s irregular because there’s an [und] in the middle [nach und nach]. |
Outro |
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