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Learn basic German with GermanPod101.com! John and Michaela are going home now and meanwhile we will be looking at word genders. We will of course keep revising what was taught in the earlier lessons. And since our studio trouble is solved, there will be a new beginner lesson every week now!
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8 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #3 - The Oldtown”
GermanPod101.com says:
April 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Thanks for sticking around! Watch out for a lot of new stuff appearing at GermanPod101.com in the next 7 days!
Li says:
April 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Thanks for the new lesson.
Just had a go in the learning center and I’ve got to say “Es ist gut! Sehr Gut!” 
However, I do have some questions regarding the content:
1. The very first sentence of the dialogue “Es gibt viele schöne Gebäude hier.” why use “schöne” instead of the plain form “schön”?
2. In the learning center Vocabulary Questions, question 2 has “der Sahara”, but question 3 has “die Sahara”, I take the “Sahara” from 2 questions are not really related?
Danke,
Li
petiteclaire says:
April 30th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Li,
the answer to both of your questions lies in the system of declension in German :
- “schöne” is schön in the accusative plural (since Gebäude is in the plural, so has to be “schön”)
-”die Sahara” and “der Sahara” are one and the same 
, here “der” isn’t the masculine article, but the singular dative form of “die” (basically, it changes because in the sentence, Sahara is used as a static location, and not simply as a descriptive noun…)
It’s really great to know that you will be releasing more lessons now !!! Go GermanPod !!!!
Jacqueline says:
April 30th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Ich freue mich darauf, die Lektionen zuhören.
Did i wrote that write? 
GermanPod101 says:
May 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Thank you for explaining this faster than I could, petiteclaire.
Jacqueline, you got it almost right. It should be “Ich freue mich darauf, die Lektionen anzuhören.” anhören is the right verb when you have an object; zuhören is intransitive.
Peter says:
September 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Düsseldorf hat eine Altstadt. Fareham hat einen Altman. Ich bin er!
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Category: Beginner Lessons |
Grammar: word genders | Function: pointing out things, explaining what things are | Topic: sight seeing | Politeness Level: informal
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