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Saying Hello In Germany | Easy German 1

Posted on April 8, 2017

Saying Hello In Germany | Easy German 1

Learn German with Easy German: Simon and Bettina talk to people in the streets of Münster.

Easy German/ Easy Languages is a non-profit video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

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Easy German/ Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

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Hosts: Simon & Bettina
Camera/ Edit: Janusz

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The Language Situation scenes are supposed to complement any regular language course by providing a sort of language “street experience”.

You can see “real” people talking their “real” language. They are all quite taken by surprise in this unusual situation (somebody asking silly questions) and they react very spontaneously.

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Hallo!

Hi.

Wie geht’s Ihnen? : How are you doing.

Wie – how

Geht – it goes

‘s – short for “es” – it

Ihnen – You

Gut – good

OK – OK

Schönen Tag – beautiful day

noch – still, yet

Danke – Thank you

Einfach nur “Hallo” – simple only “Hallo”

Hallo – Hello.

Schlecht – bad

Warum – why

Warum schlecht? – Why bad?

Was ist los? – What’s up.

Guten Tag! – Good day.

Hatten Sie einen Schönen Tag? – Did you have a good day?

Ich habe – I have

Du hast – You have

Sie hat – She has

Er hat – He has

Es hat – It has

Wir haben – We have

Iht habt – You have

They have – Sie haben

You have – Sie haven (this is the polite form for people you don’t know well)

Ich hatte – I had

Du hattest – You had

And so on.

Ja, auf jeden Fall – yes, by all means

Auf – on

Jeden – every

(der) Fall – a possibility

Ja, gleichfalls – yes, likewise

Wie geht’s dir – how are you doing

Ganz gut – quite alright

Ganz – complete, entire

Schönen Tag gehabt? – Did you have a beautiful day

Ich habe gehabt – I have had

Du hast gehabt – You have had

Sie hat gehabt – She has had (and so on)

Ja, bisher schon – yes, so far yet

Ja, dann wünsche ich – yes, then I wish you

doch weiter – still

noch einen schönen Tag – yet a beautiful day

ja, beim Einkaufen – yes, at the shoping

Weiter – further

viel Spaß – a lot of joy

Danke schön – thank you very much

Und – and

Tschüss! bye bye

Schon viel Spaß gehabt hier in der Stadt? – Did you have had a lot of fun in the city yet?

(die) Stadt – a city

sehr viel – a lot of

Sehr – very

Saufender Pöbel – drunken mob

Sie dürfen mich ruhig duzen – you may as well say you to me
(normaly she should address him with the polite “Sie” form – in German you would say: Sie siezt ihn” when she use the informal “Du” form then: “Sie duzt ihn” The joke was that he has proposed this informal way of addressing him after she already did it anyway)

Viel Zeit – a lot of time, a long time

heute – today

in der Stadt – in the city

Verbracht = verbringen: to spend

Ich verbringe, du verbringst (and so on)

Ich habe verbracht, du hast verbracht (and so on)

Nee – a colloquial form for “Nein”: No

nur beim Kaffeetrinken – only by drinking coffee

in einem Café – in a café

Ein Bisschen – a little

Für eine Frau nicht viel – for a women not a lot

(eine) Frau – a woman

Nicht – not

Nee, aber sehr, sehr lange halte ich es auch nicht aus – no, but I don’t endure it ver much longer

Lang – long

Ich halte – i hold

Ich halte aus – i endure

zu voll – too full

Ist das eine Tuba? – is it a tube

Ja, ja, eine Tuba – yes, a tube

Sieht gut aus – it looks very nice

Ich sehe gut aus – I look nice

Sie sieht gut aus – She looks nice (and so on)

Gut, und selbst? – good and yourself?

Ja, gut, danke – yes, good, thank you

Hervorragend – brilliant

Nein, danke – no, thank you