in this lesson you explained the different genders. What I don’t get is why these genders are not written along with the words in the vocabulary lists and the flashcards. We need to learn new words with the gender !!
I really don’t get why it’s not the case.

If you go to the top of each lesson page, you can see the links named ‘Line by Line Audio sessions’ and ‘Expansion with Audio files’ That’s the learning center, which only Premium members can use.

I hope this helps.

Thank you.

- Jay / GermanPod101.com

Thanks for this. I am already familiar with the Newbie series. I went through this in the 7 day trial period to check whether I liked your product and, more importantly, to check the shortcommings in my own very rusty German!

The Newbie series sold it to me but I recognised that I have big gaps in my grammar so settled on the Beginners courses as the point for me to start. I find your grammar and usage descriptions illuminating. Being UK English I do have to translate the American used on the site eg pants/trousers! but this is no real problem.

Wann ich kann, ich werde in Deutch schreiben. So, hertlichen Dank.

Richard

Richard, using more than one series at the same time is a great way to re-inforce what you study. The Beginner Series marked as S1 is indeed more advanced, it’s meant for upper beginners, but the S2 series is also aimed at complete beginners, just with different vocabulary because we have a storyline. If you’re looking for another series that is at the same level as the original beginner series, try the Newbie lessons or the Absolute Beginner lessons that we’re presently producing. Both of these also contain more useful dialogs than the Beginner S2 series.

Indeed, there was a spelling reform which changed all daß to dass. It also made the spelling more consistent: whenever the vowel in other words is long, you’ll use ß now, and when the vowel is short, it’s spelled ss.

I missed the answer to the sahara point above. It is a case chnage. Shows I should read all the comments closely!

In the expanded vocab (and in one of the beta tests) you have “Was isch das”. I can’t find “isch” in my dictionary. Is it a typo? Should it have been “ist”?

Richard

I am finding your material really well paced.

Moved on now to the next lessons. I am using your series Beginners, Beginners S1 and Beginners S2 in parallel. Three podcasts is about right for my train journey to London. Generally this works well as the lessons reinforce each other. I am now working on lesson 3 in each. The language used in in S1 and S2 appears more complex than the original beginners course or is that just me?

Two points:

Trawling the depths of my fallible memory, I seem to remember spelling “da?” with an eszett. Your course spells it “dass”. Is this just poor memory or have spellings changed?

In the extended vocabulary for Beginners lesson 3 there is a reference to the Sahara. In one entry it is “der Sahara”, in the other “die Sahara”. I guess that Der Sahara is in a case other than nominative. Are tese covered in more detail later on in the course as it is one area where I am particularly weak?

Thanks again One day I will be up-to-date with your beginners courses!

Oh yeah, I tried looking at your grammarbank to check out Sahara. These do’t appear to be poulated yet. Any plans as to when they might be?

Sorry for the long message.

Richard

Just one quick question: In the expansion it says “Die Düsseldorfer Altstadt ist sehr schön.” Why not “Die Düsseldorfe Altstadt,” since “die” already covers the number and gender of Altstadt? “Die schöne Altstadt,” but “Die Düsseldorfer Altstadt?”

Is there a separate rule for using proper names (like Düsseldorf) as qualifiers?

Thank you in advance!

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.

Did i wrote that write?