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Imagine you are stranded at a German airport. You have a friend in the city who might be willing to help you, but how to reach him? What will you do if his German parents or his girlfriend pick up the phone and they don’t speak English? This lesson will save you. Learn how to make calls in German! We will also look at useful structures like ich möchte, lass uns and ich habe keine Lust auf…. GermanPod101 helps you get what you want! Now the question remains: will Michael achieve his goal with Lena?

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Newbie Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

29 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #7 - Düsseldorf Arc - Calling somebody”

GermanPod101.com says:

What kind of things would you like to suggest or request in German? Let’s expand our vocabulary a bit!

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Li says:

It seems we’ve got the wrong PDF for the lesson….

Li

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GermanPod101.com says:

My sincere apologies. The link has been fixed now.

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Li says:

That was quick, thanks!

Vielen Dank!

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elexa says:

My mom actually was stranded at a German airport the last time she visited her cousins in Germany. They forgot what day she was coming, oopsie. Fortunately, she is fluent in German and figured out a way to get to their house.

What’s cool about her being fluent is I can try out my new German phrases on her. :grin: Of course my pronounciation is usually a bit off….

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hamid says:

hi guys,
i really enjoyed Run Lola Run, 1 of my fav movies ever!!
i watched it with English subs, do you know where i can watch it with German subs plz?
oh and im looking forward to see that Downfall too, sounds interesting
thanks a lot! :smile:

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GermanPod101.com says:

Hamid, if you get the DVD, you should be able to see German subtitles with it. In fact, there are a lot of German DVDs of popular older movies (like “Der bewegte Mann”) that only have German subtitles, not even English ones :-(

“Downfall” (Der Untergang) doesn’t come with English dubbing as far as I know, so you will be watching it in German with either German or English subtitles. It’s a crass movie, but the idea was to make it as accurate as possible - anything for which there has been any witness at all was shown just like it happened, right up to Bruno Ganz training to imitate Hitler’s accent perfectly.

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elexa says:

There is something wacky going on with the Grammar and Content Questions in the Learning Center.

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GermanPod101.com says:

That has been fixed now, but it’s a programming issue that may still not be fixed for other lessons…

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elexa says:

Yeah, I saw it in some of the beginner lessons too. :neutral:

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Toni Weiss says:

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Mark says:

Good Lessions…..so far so good. :smile:

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Scott says:

Hi! These lessons have been great. I’m using them as my high school german class (I’m homeschooled; 9th grade). Thank you so much!

Danke Schön!

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Judith says:

Glad you like the lessons, Scott. You can try the other two beginner series as well, next to this Newbie series, they will re-inforce each other.

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Scott says:

Ok, thanks. I’ll give it a try!

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Hora says:

I think, In the “expasion Section” there is a mistake
Lass uns in Kino gehen., It should be Ins? as in the PDF?

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Rob says:

Hi. I am enjoying the lessons and especially the banter between the two presenters.
However I am still having trouble with my personal my word bank. It seems to me there is a software fault which needs to be fixed. I select the words for inclusion from the vocab list and when I check the myword bank there is a whole bunch of words starting with A which I didn’t select. I am disappointed that I can’t use my word bank as I think it is a great feature. Any thoughts on that? (I have sent an email to support 4 days ago but no response.)
Many thanks,
Rob

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Peyton says:

Hi Rob,

I reported your problem to our tech team. Thank you for pointing it out.

Sincerely,
Peyton

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Wanderson says:

Hallo Chuck und Judith,
Ich heiße Wanderson und stamme aus Brasilien.
Ich lerne Deutsch seite 15. Jetzt Ich bin 33. :lol: :lol:
Ich finde diese WebSite sehr toll!!!!!
Jeden Tag höre ich eine neue podcast.
Ich lerne sehr viel.
Dankeschön!
Bis dann!

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Judith says:

Hallo Wanderson,

Ich freue mich, dass du die Podcasts magst. = I am happy that you like the podcasts.
Viel Spaß und viel Erfolg! = Wish you fun and success!

Judith

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Jelennuie says:

Chuck we like you! But you have given me, an old English teacher, a chance to teach you. While understandably you want less spam - and don’t we all? - what you do want is FEWER emails telling you to work more. Just remember that if the noun can be preceded by a number (one person, three dogs, six of us, nineteen problems), it should be modified with fewer. Otherwise, less is used.

Otherwise a hearty ausgezeichnet to you both.

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Jelennuie says:

To Hamid: The Downfall, Untergang, is a truly wonderful movie but be prepared to be emotionally wiped out by the time it is done. Another good movie is NaPoLa. It’s hard to find but well worth the search.

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Jelennuie says:

P.S. Yes, Untergang does come with English subtitles.

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Amalie says:

I agree, Jelennuie.

When I watched the movie, I somehow became so exhausted that I actually ended up missing the last 5-7 minutes cause I fell asleep :oops:

Hope I get the watch it again some day :)

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Richard says:

Love the lessons, but one request…

Chuck - please sort out your ‘ch’s! It’s actually very hard to listen to and understand sometimes, and I fear is training my ear badly :(

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Franck says:

Hi,

from the ‘Line-By-Line Audio Transcript’ I only get ‘Lena Wagner’ whatever the line I want to listen to!

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Dan Nicholson says:

When I try to use the voice recorder I get the following error message.
My OS is windows 7

Please report error to webmaster.
ListenUp version V1.80 (build 356, Tue Jul 17 00:00:00 PDT 2007)
Caught: java.lang.RuntimeException: Audio I/O from Java not supported on this system.

———– System Details ———————
ListenUp version V1.80 (build 356, Tue Jul 17 00:00:00 PDT 2007)
java.version = 1.6.0_30
java.vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.home = C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6
user.home = C:\Users\Dan
java.library.path = C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Expl
———– Location of Error ——————
java.lang.RuntimeException: Audio I/O from Java not supported on this system.
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.z.a(z.java:1210)
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.z.(z.java:111)
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.ab.(ab.java:32)
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.RecorderApplet.createPlayer(RecorderApplet.java:295)
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.PlayerApplet.a(PlayerApplet.java:1048)
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.RecorderApplet.j(RecorderApplet.java:289)
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.PlayerApplet.o(PlayerApplet.java:1199)
at com.softsynth.javasonics.recplay.PlayerApplet.start(PlayerApplet.java:1153)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

If you think this is a bug, then please copy and paste this message
in a report to the technical support folks for this website.
Use Control-A to select entire text of error.
Please include in your letter what you were doing at the time,
what you expected to happen, and what actually occured.

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Germanpod101.com says:

Hello Dan,

Thank you for letting us know the issue. This is Jay Lee from GermanPod101.com

We’ve reported the issue to our technical team. Let me post back when the issue is getting fixed.

Thank you.

- GermanPod101.com

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Germanpod101.com says:

Hello Dan,

We checked the error message and it seems like your microphone is not installed properly on your computer. Could you please check if your microphone is installed on your computer? You can see the error message when the microphone is not ready.

Thank you.

- Jay Lee / GermanPod101.com

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