1. Welcome
[00:00:00] Welcome to this lesson. We’re going to have a new Word List. The Word List – I call it Classroom, you could call it Office. So I’m trying to cover as many words possible, things, objects in your immediate environment. We’re going to go through this list a couple of times.
The whole purpose at the end of this lesson, of the video, you’re going to know all these words, you know what they mean and how to say them, and you will have practiced the pronunciation, so you’re able to say them correctly, and you will have started to practice them. to remember them as well, there will be more exercises in a following video, for you to actually use it in sentences, but this is a good first step. And, after the video, there are a couple of steps that I have written up to you for you here on how to use this video.
[00:01:00] Make use of this video. You will learn just perfectly, if you take small steps at a time, but you practice everything that you get, and when I tell you to repeat after me, please speak out loudly and proudly.
So the first step, write down those words in your notebook, or however you choose to take notes, and if German is not your native language, then write the translation right next to the English word.
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2. German Classroom and Office Vocabulary Word List
[00:02:00]
die Tür — door.
die Lampe — lamp.
die Pflanze — plant
die Decke — ceiling.
das Fenster — window.
das Bild — picture.
der Tisch — table.
der Sessel — chair.
der Stuhl — chair.
So the reason why we have two times, basically two words for the same object here, Blondish tool, is there is a language difference between Austrian German and German German.
[00:03:00] So overall, we speak the same language. It’s maybe best comparable, a little bit too American in English, German. They have a little different accents, and then in some context, there’s different words that are usual. As a general rule, you could say. Every Austrian will normally understand German German. However, we will use sometimes different words.
So for chair, a normal chair that we sit on, that I’m sitting on now, in Austria we will say “Sesel.”
I will tell you more about Austrian and German German at some point, just so you’re not confused, sometimes you learn two different words.
[00:04:00] der Computer.
computer.
das Telefon
telephone
das Mobiltelefon
mobile phone
das Handy
mobile phone
der Vorhang
curtain
der Boden
floor
der Kuli
ballpoint
der Stift
pen,
der Bleistift
pencil
das Regal
shelves,
das Zimmer
[00:05:00] room
das Klassenzimmer
class room
das Büro
office
das Buch
book
das Wörterbuch
dictionary
der Papierkorb.
waste paper basket
der Bildschirm.
screen
das Tablet
tablet
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3. Repeating and Pronouncing German Words
So, as the next step, I’m going to say each of the German words twice for you to repeat.
[00:06:00] So I’ll just say it and you say it after me loudly and proudly
die Tür, die Tür
die Lampe, die Lampe
die Pflanze, die Pflanze
die Decke, die Decke
das Fenster, das Fenster
das Bild, das Bild
[00:07:00] der Tisch, der Tisch
der Sessel, der Sessel
der Stuhl, der Stuhl
der Computer, der Computer
das Telefon, das Telefon
das Mobiltelefon, das Mobiltelefon
das Handy, das Handy
[00:08:00] der Vorhang, der Vorhang
der Boden, der Boden
der Kuli, der Kuli
der Stift, der Stift
der Bleistift, der Bleistift
das Regal, das Regal
das Zimmer, das Zimmer
das Klassenzimmer, das Klassenzimmer
[00:09:00] das Büro, das Büro
das Buch, das Buch
das Wörterbuch, das Wörterbuch
der Papierkorb, der Papierkorb
der Bildschirm, der Bildschirm
das Tablet, das Tablet
4. English Adopted Words in German Vocabulary
Okay, before we go on to the next step, quick note. I’m sure you have noticed that there are like three words that actually look English.
[00:10:00] Maybe you just thought two of them were English:
the Computer, Tablet, but also Handy.
So, before I go into “Handy,” it is very usual to just take English words, particularly in the area of technology or computers or anything modern so to say. And “Handy,” however, seems to be a misunderstanding. So, as far as I know, it comes from the English word “handy,” meaning something that is practical, that is good to have around, that is convenient, you could say.
However, many people in Austria or Germany, many German-speaking people, unless their English is really good, will not know that this is not actually an English word. Or it is an English word, but it doesn’t like mobile phone does not mean handy in English. So, I don’t know how it came about.
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5. Practice Exercises for Word Association
[00:11:00] Obviously, somebody thought a mobile phone was handy. So we come to the next step, and the next step is I’m going to say each of the German words, and I want you in the break after that, I want you to say the English words.
So I’m going to say “die Tür,” and I want you to say “door.”
You can just read; if you don’t remember it, you just read the translation. However, I want you to repeat that step until you can do it without actually reading all the translations.
I want you to continue until you can do it. If it is hard, or if it takes more than two, three times going through the step, just go back and repeat the first and the second step, and then come back to this. You will see it is not as long as you maybe think, and whenever we practice something, practice it until that one step is really good, and then go to the next one.
Practice Exercise 1 -German to English
[00:12:00] the door
die Lampe
die Pflanze
die Decke
das Fenster
das Bild
der Tisch
der Sessel
der Stuhl
der computer,
das Telefon
das Mobiltelefon
das Handy.
[00:13:00] der Vorhang
der Boden
der Kuli
der Stift
der Bleistift
das Regal
das Zimmer
das Klassenzimmer
das Büro
das Buch
das Wörterbuch
der Papierkorb
the screen
das Tablet.
[00:14:00] All right. Last step. I’m going to say the English words now, and now I want you to say, after I say an English word, I want you to say in the break, the German word. And again, repeat this step a couple of times over if necessary, until you can do it without looking at it.
Practice Exercise 2 – English → German
Door
lamp
plant
ceiling
window
picture
table
chair
chair computer
[00:15:00] telephone
mobile phone
mobile phone
curtain
floor
ballpoint
pen
pencil
shelves
room
classroom
office
book
dictionary
waste paper basket
[00:16:00] screen
tablet
6. Conclusion and Next Steps
Okay. So we’re at the end of the video before I say goodbye. You have this file to download if you want to, and you will also find these steps in your lesson. So have fun with the video, watch it several times, and see you in the next lesson!
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