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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”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
What kind of things would you like to suggest or request in German? Let’s expand our vocabulary a bit!
Tuesday at 8:33 pm
It seems we’ve got the wrong PDF for the lesson….
Li
Tuesday at 8:35 pm
My sincere apologies. The link has been fixed now.
Tuesday at 9:04 pm
That was quick, thanks!
Vielen Dank!
Tuesday at 10:32 pm
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.
Of course my pronounciation is usually a bit off….
Wednesday at 6:52 am
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!
Wednesday at 3:58 pm
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.
Thursday at 12:05 am
There is something wacky going on with the Grammar and Content Questions in the Learning Center.
Thursday at 3:40 am
That has been fixed now, but it’s a programming issue that may still not be fixed for other lessons…
Thursday at 4:12 am
Yeah, I saw it in some of the beginner lessons too.
Thursday at 12:51 pm
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Wednesday at 5:05 am
Good Lessions…..so far so good.
Saturday at 1:18 am
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!
Saturday at 6:57 am
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.
Monday at 11:43 pm
Ok, thanks. I’ll give it a try!
Tuesday at 7:34 am
I think, In the “expasion Section” there is a mistake
Lass uns in Kino gehen., It should be Ins? as in the PDF?
Wednesday at 2:37 pm
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
Thursday at 10:42 am
Hi Rob,
I reported your problem to our tech team. Thank you for pointing it out.
Sincerely,
Peyton
Thursday at 4:42 am
Hallo Chuck und Judith,

Ich heiße Wanderson und stamme aus Brasilien.
Ich lerne Deutsch seite 15. Jetzt Ich bin 33.
Ich finde diese WebSite sehr toll!!!!!
Jeden Tag höre ich eine neue podcast.
Ich lerne sehr viel.
Dankeschön!
Bis dann!
Thursday at 7:38 pm
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
Thursday at 1:31 am
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.
Thursday at 1:37 am
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.
Thursday at 1:38 am
P.S. Yes, Untergang does come with English subtitles.
Thursday at 2:01 pm
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
Hope I get the watch it again some day
Saturday at 6:30 am
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
Tuesday at 8:30 pm
Hi,
from the ‘Line-By-Line Audio Transcript’ I only get ‘Lena Wagner’ whatever the line I want to listen to!
Wednesday at 7:16 am
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)
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Thursday at 10:02 am
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
Thursday at 11:21 am
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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