1. The Smart Choice: Learning German at UEA
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2. “Is German difficult to learn?”
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3. As an English speaker you already know
more German than you may realise ....
Ball
Butter
Bus
Fest
Glas
Land
Vater
Mutter
English and German share the same roots – they are both Germanic languages!
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4. Do you recognise some of these words?
Kindergarten
Rucksack
Gesundheit
Volkswagen
Diesel
Frankfurter
Poltergeist
Strudel
English has borrowed words and expressions from German. They are commonly used in today’s English language.
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5. These words should look very familiar ...
English loan words have slipped into everyday German.
People refer to them as ‘Denglish’.
chatten
checken
cheaten
Song
Computer
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6. AUTOSTADT VOLKSWAGEN, Wolfsburg
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7. “What about the pronunciation?”
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8. What you see is what you get!
German is a very phonetic language - Once you know how letters or letter combinations are pronounced, you should be able to say almost all words correctly.
Bade-ente
Sonnen-blume
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9. Some vowel combination sounds
nein
Wein
allein ei
= long “I” sound as in find, shy eu äu
neun
Deutschland
Bäume
= OY sound as in noise, voice au
= pronounced as the English
sound OW as in owl
Haus
kaufen ie
Wie?
sieben
= long “ee” sound as in bee, she
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10. Some consonant combination sounds
Schule
waschen
deutsch
sch
= SH sound as in fish, shy
ch (after a, o, u)
= “KH”, slightly gutteral, almost like gargling
Buch
Nacht
ch (after i, e, ä, ö, ü)
= similar to the sound the "h" makes in "huge", but more drawn out in time
ich
China
Stein, sprechen
Taste, Wespe sp st
= SHP / SHT sound at the beginning of a syllable, otherwise as in English best
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11. β One very special sound Fuβball Straβe Meiβener Porzellan
= the strange letter that looks a bit like B, but is actually a combination of s and z. Pronounce like the hissing sound of a snake: ssssss
Fuβball
Straβe
Meiβener Porzellan
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12. Can you pronounce this word?
Fuβballeuropameister
Fuβball-europa-meister
Fuβball-europa-meister-schafts-finale
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13. Willkommen In 2015 kamen fast 1 Millionen Flüchtlinge
nach Deutschland.
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14. Willkommen Guten Tag/ Hallo! Wie heiβt du? Guten Tag! Ich heiβe Ben.
Und du?
Ich heiβe Johanna.
Woher kommst du?
Ich komme aus Leeds.
Das ist in Yorkshire.
Und du?
Ich komme aus Bremen.
Das ist in Deutschland.
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15. KARNEVAL IN KÖLN
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16. “Is a beer male or female in German”
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17. Das Bier beim Oktoberfest ist lecker.
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18. Beer is neuter!
Every noun in German has a gender, a grammatical gender.
This is indicated by the article. There are three genders.
Masculine
Feminine
Neuter
DER
DIE
DAS
der Fuβball
die Badeente
das Bier
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19. Motorbikes are female! There are some rules to remember.
der Volkswagen
die Kawasaki
There are some rules to remember.
All male persons are masculine.
All days of the week, all months and seasons are masculine.
All makes of cars are masculine.
All makes of motorbikes are feminine.
All female persons are feminine.
All alcoholic drinks are masculine, except for beer (neuter).
Many plants are feminine.
70% of all nouns ending in –e are feminine.
Nouns ending in –schaft, -heit, -keit, -ung, -tion, -ik are feminine.
Nouns ending in –chen, -lein, -um, -ium are neuter.
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20. DAS SPAGHETTI-EIS
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21. Ich möchte einen Eiskaffee.
Masculine:
der Espresso
der Eiskaffee
der Cappuccino
der Tee
Feminine:
die Latte Caramel
die Latte Macciato
die Heiβe Schokolade
Neuter:
das Bier
das Spaghetti-Eis
einen
= I would like
eine
ein
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22. Pedestrian Roller Coaster, Duisburg
EINE ACHTERBAHN FÜR FUβGÄNGER IN DUISBURG
(A rollercoaster for pedestrians)
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23. Be smart – give German a go.
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24. The Smart Choice: Learning German at UEA
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